This toolkit was produced by CIVICUS, the global civil society alliance, as part of the Civic Space Initiative (CSI). A partnership between CIVICUS, the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL), ARTICLE 19, and the World Movement for Democracy, The Civic Space Initiative (CSI) is working to protect and expand civic space by fostering an enabling… [Read More]
A Free Agrobiodiversity Handbook
This guide does not aim to be a comprehensive manual on the use and importance of biodiversity in the farmscape. Rather, it is an attempt to provide a first step in encouraging further research and a systematic approach into a field of research that concerns the livelihood of most people in Lao as well as… [Read More]
A Free Handbook for Anyone Working with the Public on Conservation: Enabling Ecoaction
This handbook aims to be a road map for anyone working with the community to achieve environmental change, including environmental educators and managers, Bushcare or Landcare coordinators, local government environment officers, and community development officers. It is especially designed for the many people with natural science backgrounds now involved in community projects to conserve species,… [Read More]
A Free Lean, Energy and Climate Toolkit
The Lean, Energy & Climate Toolkit offers Lean implementers practical strategies and techniques for enhancing Lean results—waste elimination, quality enhancement, and delivery of value to customers—while improving energy efficiency and reducing energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, costs, and risk. There are many reasons to integrate Lean, energy efficiency and greenhouse gas reduction efforts including: Cost… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for Programming on Minerals and Conflict
This toolkit for development agency practitioners on the management of mineral wealth and its links to conflict is part of a series commissioned by USAID from leading environment and security practitioners, exploring how development assistance can address key natural resource-related risk factors. Other papers in this series focus on land use conflicts, on water and… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for Conservation and Development Practitioners on Migration and Conservation
The Migration and Conservation Toolkit was developed to help conservation practitioners assess the impacts of human migration on critical ecosystems. It draws on extensive research in three critical ecosystems in the Great Lakes region of Africa with generous funding from the MacArthur Foundation. Integrating existing and potential migration concerns into conservation interventions is increasingly important… [Read More]
A Free Economics of Local Food Systems Toolkit
As consumers across the Nation express a growing interest in a closer connection to their food producers—whether through access to more localized markets and/or shorter supply chains— cities and regions have begun to regard the expansion of local food marketing activities as a critical component of their economic development strategies. Rising demand for locally produced,… [Read More]
A Free Technical Handbook: Seeds in Emergencies
This publication provides emergency practitioners with the basic technical information about seeds, necessary for planning and implementing seed relief interventions. It defines the main seed quality attributes and describes the standard testing and sampling methodologies. This technical publication is part of FAO’s effort to assist its member countries, FAO emergency staff and humanitarian partners to… [Read More]
A Free Handbook on Safe Access to Firewood and alternative Energy (SAFE)
This handbook provides find information about SAFE along 7 phases of the project cycle for design and implementation. This is a comprehensive set of resources and tools meant to provide guidance on fuel-efficient programming for all WFP staff and partners striving – at community, national and international levels – to make safe access to cooking… [Read More]
A Free Handbook for NGOs and CSOs: Engaging Africa-based Human Rights Mechanisms
This publication was produced under the ”Consolidating Civil Society’s Role in the Transition from African Human Rights Standards to Practice project”, funded by the European Union (EU) and implemented by the International Commission of Jurists – European Institutions (ICJ-EI), the African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies (ACDHRS), the ICJ Kenya Section and the… [Read More]
A Free Advocacy Toolkit for Small Holder Farmers in Africa
The advocacy toolkit gives a general introduction to advocacy drawing heavily on the farmers own experiences to give definition and meaning to the word advocacy. Approaches Three Approaches to Advocacy Advocacy for Advocacy with Advocacy By Farmers will get to appreciate that advocacy takes place all the time in varying situations: Methods Reading out of… [Read More]
Energy and Gender for Sustainable Development: Free Toolkit for Practitioners
This toolkit and resource guide has been produced jointly by the Sustainable Energy Programme of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and ENERGIA, the International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy. It is designed to help planners and practitioners integrate gender and energy considerations into development programmes, including those focusing on energy improvements as well… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for the Evaluation of Financial Capability Programs in Low and Middle-Income Countries
When resources are scarce and social safety nets are weak, households’ ability to manage income and assets wisely may be an important determinant of economic security. However, many open questions remain about how households in low- and middle-income countries gain and exercise financial capability, and the best ways for governments and the private/nonprofit sector to… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for African Agribusiness Development Programme
As part of its mandate, UNDP’s African Facility for Inclusive Markets (AFIM), has developed an African Agribusiness Supplier Development Programme (AASDP) in support of the AU and CAADP’s agriculture transformation and food security agenda. The objectives of the agricultural supplier development programme (ASDP) are three-fold: first, to improve the quantity and quality supply of agricultural… [Read More]
A Free Analytical Toolkit for Support to Contract Farming
This document aims to provide a task team leader with tools for a critical evaluation of projects promoting contract farming schemes before, during, and after the life span of the project. This toolkit has three objectives: provide guidance on what kinds of contract farming schemes work well, and in what circumstances (the best practice function); provide… [Read More]
A Free Civil Society Accountability Toolkit – Uganda
Civil Society Accountability: Principles and Practice is a toolkit developed by the One World Trust in partnership with the Commonwealth Foundation and the Development Network of Indigenous Voluntary Associations. It explores what accountability means for civil society organisations in Uganda and provides suggestions on how to put accountability into practice. The toolkit has three aims:… [Read More]
Using Gender Statistics: A Free Toolkit for Training Data Users
This toolkit aims to support statistical systems to increase the understanding and use of gender statistics by government officials and other development practitioners. It has been developed for countries in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia and builds on the work to strengthen gender statistics across this region. This toolkit will support gender focal points… [Read More]
A Free Civil Society Accountability Toolkit – South Africa
Civil Society Accountability: Principles and Practice – A toolkit for civil society organisations in South Africa was developed by the Commonwealth Foundation and the Co-operative for Research and Education (CORE), South Africa. It explores what accountability means for civil society organisations (CSOs) in the uniquely South African context. The aims of the toolkit are threefold:… [Read More]
A Free Commonwealth Toolkit to Help Countries Implement SDGs
African officials welcomed a new toolkit with an aim to help countries achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and other internationally-agreed targets. Twenty participants from nine small and vulnerable countries in Africa were part of the workshop in Johannesburg, South Africa on 14-16 May, alongside the representatives from African Union Commission (AUC), UN Economic Commission… [Read More]
A Free WWF Guide to Conservation Finance: Sustainable Financing for the Planet
The Guide to Conservation Finance provides an overview of conservation financing mechanisms that have been implemented throughout the world. The Guide to Conservation Finance provides an overview of conservation financing mechanisms that have been implemented throughout the world. The guide informs field practitioners about which of the available financing mechanisms they could apply to achieve… [Read More]
