Labour-based Technology – A Review of Current Practice: Proceedings of the 11th Regional Seminar
The proceedings of this seminar are documented in two separate volumes. This Volume 1: Labour-based Technology – A Review of Current Practice: Proceedings of the 11th Regional Seminar, documents the proceedings over the five days of the seminar, including the discussions and the recommendations from the group discussions and the plenary sessions. Volume 2: Labour-based Technology – A Review of Current Practice: Papers of the 11th Regional Seminar, comprises the full text of all fifteen papers. All participants were provided with a copy of Volume 2 during the seminar.
The proceedings cover the summaries of the issues that were discussed during the group and plenary sessions, as well as issues emanting from the field visits during the 11th regional seminar. The theme of the seminar was: Integrated labour-based approach for socio-economic development. Various papers were presented and these have been grouped into four main themes which are: community participation and performance-based contracting; impact, monitoring and evaluation, as well as environmental sustainability; training, research and development; and policy and upscaling, sustainable financing and resource allocation.