Relevant Organisations & Websites

ASIST (Advisory Support, Information Services and Training for Employment-Intensive Infrastructure Development)

ILO/ASIST, PO Box 210, Harare, Zimbabwe asist@ilo.org +263 436 9824 up to 9828 www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/recon/eiip/asist/index.htm ASIST is a programme of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) seeking to contribute towards the alleviation of poverty through the use of local-level planning methodologies and employment-intensive strategies in the provision of rural and urban infrastructure. ASIST provides advisory support, information services and training to policy makers, planners, practitioners, consultants, communities, training institutions, universities, funding and development agencies, and others involved in accessibility planning and the provision of rural and urban infrastructure. Its web site describes ASIST sectoral and regional programmes. ASIST is currently undertaking programmes in Africa, Asia and the Pacific and Latin America. Its work covers the road sector, rural access infrastructure, urban livelihoods improvements and water and soil conservation. Additionally, the web site includes a description of ASIST main strategies: local level planning; labour-based technology; and small scale contracting. A description of ASIST's work on Rural Accessibility Planning and the Integrated Rural Accessibility Planning (IRAP) tool is also included under these web pages. ASIST activities are focused on the dissemination of information for those working in the rural and urban infrastructure sector. Therefore, one of its main activities is the ASIST Information Service. This service gathers, synthesises and disseminates relevant published and unpublished information on and related to rural and urban labour-based technology, and access and rural employment. This information is disseminated through document centres, a technical enquiry service, publishing, networking and research activities. In the web site there is access to a document database, bulletins, publications, seminars proceedings and programme documents and reports.