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Papers for the Sixth Regional Seminar for Labour-based Practitioners 1997

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Jinja, Uganda
29th September - 3rd October 1997

Theme of the seminar:
The Right Tool for the Job — A Review of Tools and Equipment for Labour-based Infrastructure Works

Table of Contents

1 Employment and infrastructure

1.1 The ILO and Employment-intensive Infrastructure Policies and Practices

1.2 The Role of ASIST

1.3 Information Technology Developments — How They Affect ASIST's Service To You, Our Clients

1.4 Mobilising the Private Sector to Engage in Labour-based Infrastructure Works: A South African Perspective

2 Tools and Equipment — Design, Development and Specifications

2.1 The MART Questionnaire on Tools and Equipment

2.2 Appropriate Hand Tools for Labour-based Roadworks

2.3 MART Working Paper No 7: Agricultural Tractors in Roadworks

2.4 Development of Appropriate Compaction Equipment for Labour-based Gravelling Operations

2.5 Hand Tools in Urban Infrastructure Project in Addis Ababa

2.6 Hand Tools in Labour-based Works: Some Notes for Consideration

2.7 Lessons from the Compaction of Some Local Soils for Feeder Road Construction in Ghana

2.8 Considerations for the Design of Tools for Labour-enhanced Road Construction and Maintenance

2.9 The Right Tool for the Job, Review of Tools and Equipment for Labour-based Infrastructure Works: The Fit Programme Experience

2.10 Experience in Labour Intensive and Equipment Based Road and Canal Construction with Geocells

3 Equipping contractors and projects

3.1 Choice of Haulage Equipment for Labour-based Road works

3.2 Equipment for the DNEP/DFID Feeder Roads Project, Mozambique

3.3 Development of an Approach to the Appraisal of Tools and Equipment for Labour-based Technology in Road Works: Experience in Tanzania

3.4 Equipping Trained Labour-based Contractors — The Ghanaian Experience

3.5 Labour-based Programme: Uganda Country Paper

4 Tool and Equipment Procurement

4.1 Feeder Roads Project Eastern Province, Zambia: Experiences with Procurement of Equipment and Hand tools for Labour-based Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Works

4.2 Equipment Procurement for the DNEP/DFID Feeder Roads Project, Mozambique

5 Road construction and maintenance

5.1 Rehabilitating and Maintaining Surfaced Roads

5.2 Highway Maintenance Management

5.3 Management of Some Selected Labour-based Highway Construction Activities

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