The attempts of UNESCO member states to provide culturally adapted educational technologies to developing nations are described. (DE)

Describes how the staff and students of Ahmednagar College Center for Studies in Rural Development, Maharashtra, India, worked with the villagers of Pargaon to solve their irrigation problems. (JT)

Presents the problems of Third World countries in acquiring science equipment to augment their science curriculum development plans. Outlines an attempt by Kenya Science Teachers College to produce and supply science equipment. Describes the approach to production, quality control, and costing and sales. (GS)

Nigeria, a tropical country, has an overriding concern for the preservation of its library materials from the ravages of heat, high humidity, insects, and mold. This paper generally deals with prevailing climatological problems, existing library facilities and their shortcomings, internal climate control measures, pesticidal treatments,…

Within the past decade, attention in the Commonwealth Caribbean has focused on the implications of broadcasting for development policies. The relationship between Caribbean governments and the broadcast industry has generally been close and cordial as a result of the small size of the countries and the reality of government ownership of a large…

Prepared to serve as a basis for comment by both employers and consultants who have worked on projects in developing countries, this paper describes the consulting process, conditions that warrant employment of consultants, the various alternatives for selection of consultants, common problems encountered by consultants and employers, the range of…

This account of the Tanzanian health campaign opens with a brief explanation of how radio forums fit into the mass media scheme. Then, campaigns run in other nations are reviewed, with emphasis on aspects pertinent to the Tanzanian experience. The Tanzanian campaign, named Mtu ni Afya ("Man is Health"), had three aims: (1) to increase…

In this paper, one of a series of Unesco technical reports, the author examines the idea of "technical cooperation among developing countries" (TCDC) and how it might lead to a "new international economic order" (NIEO). The first part of the paper contains a short history of TCDC. TCDC is seen by many as a self-help cooperative…

The 1971 International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) resolution establishing a working group on developing countries has brought about one of the more successful and dramatic changes for IFLA in its relationship with the third world. Its reputation has been transformed from a generally European-American orientation to that of a truly…

This collection of core bibliographies, which expands on an initial bibliography published in 1979 of the core resources housed in the Non-Formal Education Information Center at Michigan State University, comprises a basic stock of materials on nonformal education and women in development that have been contributed by development planners,…