ASIST Bulletin

ASIST publishes a bi-annual technical bulletin featuring articles on employment-intensive approaches to infrastructure development and local level infrastructure investment planning. Previous issues of the technical bulletin can be downloaded below in PDF format. Earlier editions (up to issue 19) of the bulletin have a thematic focus, include a practical centre-fold pull out and are available in both print and digital format; however, issues 20 onwards are only available in digital format and are not necessarily theme based and may not carry a centre-fold.

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• No. 20, September 2006 - PDF 272 Kb
  
• No. 19, June 2005 - PDF 2,039 KB
  Theme: Upscaling and integrated application of labour-based approaches
  Centrefold: Working out of Poverty - Targeting Investments in Africa - PDF 567 Kb
• No. 18, September 2004 - PDF 912 Kb
  Theme: Policy, institutional and legislative issues; Financing and resource allocation
  Centrefold: Policy development - PDF 110 Kb
• No. 17, March 2004 - PDF 1,922 Kb
  Theme: Diversified use of labour-based technology
  Centrefold: The Arusha Statement - Outcome of the 10th Regional Seminar for Labour-based Practictioners - PDF 549 Kb
• No. 16, September 2003 - PDF 1,215 Kb
  Theme: Impact and sustainability of employment-intensive approaches
  Centrefold: The sustainability of employment-intensive approaches - a key to improving the livelihood of the poor - PDF 206 Kb
• No. 15, March 2003 - PDF 1,274 Kb
  Theme: Labour-based technology for poverty reduction
  Centrefold: Labour-based technology for poverty reduction - PDF 197 Kb
• No. 14, July 2002 - PDF 2,048 Kb
  Theme: Mainstreaming employment-intensive strategies in infrastructure development
  Centrefold: Building local capacity for rural infrastructure works
• No. 13, March 2002 - PDF 1,334 Kb
  Theme: Appropriate engineering practices and an enabling environment
  Centrefold: The application of labour-based technology in crisis response and reconstruction
• No. 12, September 2001 - PDF 703 Kb
  Theme: Technical issues of labour-based technology
  Centrefold: An overview of experience in contracting of road works and lessons learned
• No. 11, July 2000 - PDF 1,365 Kb
  Theme: Ten years of ASIST: The past, present and future
  Centrefold: A snapshot of ASIST's activities in sub-Saharan Africa and the Asia-Pacific regions, and a list of ASIST /publications
• No. 10, January 2000 - PDF 746 Kb
  Theme: Socio-economic impact of labour-based technology
  Centrefold: The main features and steps of the Integrated Rural Accessibility Planning (IRAP) methodology
• No. 9, July 1999 - PDF 1,958 Kb
  Theme: Contracting in employment-intensive works
  Centrefold: Productivity norms for various operations in rural road construction and various systems of apportioning work on a labour-based site
• No. 8, December 1998 - PDF 1,255 Kb
  Theme: Labour standards, environmental and gender issues
  Centrefold: An outline of the key labour policies and practices in employment-intensive infrastructure programmes
• No. 7, July 1998
  Theme: Community participation in labour-based works and in rural transport planning
  Centrefold: A step-by-step guide on community contracting, with a checklist of what goes into a community contract document
• No. 6, August 1997 - PDF 659 Kb
  Theme: Tools and equipment
  Centrefold: How to cost equipment
• No. 5, September 1996 - PDF 415 Kb
  Theme: Contracting maintenance
  Centrefold: How to prioritise your routine road maintenance requirements
• No. 4, November 1995 - PDF 455 Kb
  Theme: Capacity building and training; and labour-based urban upgrading
  Centrefold: How to set up and organise visual presentations for training, workshops or seminars
• No. 3, July 1994 - PDF 500 Kb
  Theme: Equipment support to labour-based road works
  Centrefold: Drawings and specifications of a tipping and non-tipping trailer
• No. 2, December 1993 - PDF 275 Kb
  Theme: Contracting and contractor development
  Centrefold: The rainmaker - A comic-like story of the trials of small contractors
• No. 1, May 1993 - PDF 312 Kb
  Theme: Road maintenance
  Centrefold: The Kenya Minor Roads Programme, Headman's handbook for routine road maintenance.