Here is a compilation of 35+ toolkits, designed for the the quick reference of the NGOs and CSOs on various pressing issues affecting the African continent. These toolkits have been made available by various international organizations and programs implemented across the world.
A Free Private Health Policy Toolkit for Africa
“Private Health Policy Toolkit for Africa” gathers resources and tools about engaging the private health sector that were previously unavailable in one location. It outlines opportunities for developing, engaging, and supporting a well-managed and effectively regulated private sector to improve the region’s health…[more]
A Free Advocacy Toolkit for Africa
This toolkit provides a resource to demonstrate the many ways that individuals can be involved in
advocacy to help improve cancer care in Africa. The toolkit covers important topics including: (a) the development of an advocacy plan; (b) working with governments; (c) awareness raising events and resources; and (d) how to secure funding…[more]
A Free Toolkit for African Policymakers
This toolkit aims to provide African policymakers with the critical historical information and background needed to understand Chinese foreign policy towards Africa…[more]
A Free Toolkit for Advancing Women Leaders in Africa
The toolkit is meant to inspire and provide examples of how policymakers, civil society organizations, community leaders, and the international community can work together to develop a critical mass of women leaders in political positions across Africa to ensure good governance and economic stability, and greater stability overall…[more]
Free Toolkit for National Platforms for Disaster Risk Reduction in Africa
This National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Tool Kit was developed for African countries by UNISDR Regional Office for Africa, based on information provided by national DRR focal points in Africa, with the kind support of the Federal Republic of Germany and the European Commission Humanitarian Aid Department (ECHO)…[more]
A Free Toolkit on Indigenous Women’s Rights in Africa
Forest Peoples Programme has created this toolkit to help indigenous women in Africa to better understand the African human rights system and how to use it effectively to secure their rights…[more]
Rural ICT Free Toolkit for African Policymakers and Regulators
The Rural ICT Toolkit is addressed mainly to African policymakers and regulators and other interested parties who wish to develop rural ICT programs and projects in their countries…[more]
Free COMED Toolkit on Communication for Education and Development
This Toolkit, written for the first time in Africa by experts, journalists and other actors in education will permit, without any doubt, a larger number of African journalists to have easier access to training on education and development, and to thus contribute in promoting quality education for all in Africa…[more]
A Free Toolkit for Child Health and Mobility in Africa
The Toolkit was jointly developed by the University of Cape Town (UCT) and the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) with support from the UN Environment Share the Road program and FIA Foundation…[more]
A Free Guide for Civil Society Organizations on how to engage with the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
This Guide aims to be a resource for civil society organizations (CSO) who are interested in finding out more about the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC) and the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (the Committee). ..[more]
A Free PACTE-VIH Replication Toolkit: Strategies and Resources for Implementing HIV Prevention, Care, and Treatment Programming in West Africa
This toolkit was created to increase access to, and the quality of, prevention, care and treatment services for key populations (men who have sex with men and female sex workers) in West Africa by facilitating the replication of the PACTE-VIH model…[more]
A Free Toolkit on Effective Education Sector Responses to Malaria in Africa: Malaria Control in Schools
The Malaria Control in School Toolkit has been developed to provide policymakers, health and educational professionals, researchers, donors, and NGOs in implementing country-led school malaria programmes…[more]
A Free Toolkit for Making Everyone Count in Sub-Saharan Africa
According to a recent World Bank Group publication titled Digital Identity Toolkit: A Guide for Stakeholders in Africa, Digital ID is not only a key enabler for service delivery to the poorest, but also helps grow a country’s economy and social development…[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 Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)…[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…[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….[more]
Free Toolkit for Integrated Vector Management in Sub-Saharan Africa
This toolkit for integrated vector management (IVM) is designed to help national and regional programme managers coordinate across sectors to design and run large IVM programmes. It is an extension of earlier guidance and teaching material published by the World Health Organization (WHO)…[more]
A Free Handbook for Journalists: Climate Governance in Africa
This handbook brings together the available expertise and knowledge on climate governance issues affecting the African continent. It provides quick reference on what are often complex climate governance issues and examples of news features that speak to these issues…[more]
Free West Africa Drug Policy Training Toolkit
The West Africa drug policy training toolkit has been developed by the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC), in collaboration with the Kofi Annan Foundation and the West African Commission on Drugs, with funding from USAID. It aims to build the capacity of civil society organisations in the region and to help them engage with, and influence, drug policy making processes…[more]
A Free Toolkit for African NGOs: Provoking Change
This toolkit was produced by FERN at the request of a network of environmental NGOs in West Africa: the Green Actors of West Africa (GAWA). This Advocacy Toolkit is for local and national NGOs, but specifically for those based in West Africa, as the case studies and background information are focused on this region…[more]
A Free Toolkit on the Right to Health for Southern and East Africa
This toolkit is an adaptation of ‘A toolkit on the Right to Health’ first published in 2011 by the Learning Network on Health and Human Rights (as First edition: Toolkit on the Right to Health)…[more]
A Free Handbook of Palliative Care in Africa
This handbook, one of a series of books produced African Palliative Care Association (APCA), provides quick-reference information on the principles and practices of palliative care. This is with an aim of providing essential knowledge and skills on palliative care for the care and support providers, heads of health teaching institutions, policy makers and others involved in the care of patients with life-threatening illnesses…[more]
A Free Toolkit for CSO’s in Africa: Monitoring Government Policies
This toolkit specifically targets African partners, seeking to share the struggles and successes of partners already monitoring government policies with those that are new to this work…[more]
Free Policy Advocacy Toolkit: How to Influence Public Policy for Social Justice and Gender Equality in Africa
This policy advocacy toolkit was developed to assist African civil society organisations to effectively contribute to the development and implementation of public policy for social justice and gender equality or to challenge proposed laws and policies that undermine gender equality and human rights…[more]
A Free Handbook on Pædiatric AIDS in Africa
The Handbook on Pædiatric AIDS in Africa is an accessible, practical tool for health professionals in developing countries who care for HIV-infected and -affected children…[more]
A Free Publications on Improve Agricultural Crop Production Forecast Statistics in Sub-saharan African Countries
This document is focused on developing an in-depth understanding of agricultural production systems in Kenya, Senegal and Zimbabwe…[more]
A Free Toolkit on Disability for Africa
A Toolkit on Disability for Africa has been developed by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), Division for Social Policy and Development (DSPD)…[more]
A Free Publication on Pulse Crops for Sustainable Farms in Sub-Saharan Africa
In this free publication from FAO, you can learn about Pulse Crops for Sustainable Farms in Sub-Saharan Africa…[more]
A Free Publication on African Experiences in Producing Governance, Peace and Security Statistics
In this free publication from UNDP, you can learn about the experiences of African National Statistical Offices in producing governance-related statistics and is relevant for anyone interested in the new statistical domain of governance, peace and security (GPS) to monitor Sustainable Development Goal 16…[more]
Gender-Responsive Pedagogy in Early Childhood Education: Free Toolkit for Teachers and School Leaders
The Gender-Responsive Pedagogy in Early Childhood Education (GRP4ECE) toolkit empowers preschool teachers and school leaders to challenge gender stereotypes where they can do the most harm, but where they can also be challenged most effectively…[more]
A Free Men to Men Strategy Toolkit: For Working with Men to Combat Gender Based Violence
The toolkit is aimed at providing men with easy to apply practical guidelines on how to work with fellow men to combat gender based violence – GBV as part of their contribution to enhancing gender equality….[more]
A Free Clinic–Community Collaboration Toolkit: Working Together To Improve PMTCT and Paediatric HIV Treatment, Care and Support
The toolkit was developed by Paediatric-Adolescent-Treatment Africa (PATA) and the Positive Action for Children Fund (PACF). PATA aims to mobilise and strengthen a network of frontline healthcare providers to improve paediatric and adolescent HIV prevention, treatment, care and support in sub-Saharan Africa…[more]
Free Toolkit for the Economic Analysis of Invasive Species
The aim of this toolkit is to provide a clear, user-friendly guide to the application of economic approaches and tools to invasive species. It addresses the issues associated with identifying the factors which cause the spread of invasives, incorporating consideration of invasive species into economic planning and policy-making…[more]
A Free Practical Handbook for Financial Management
This handbook provides tools to support NGOs – especially small women’s organisations in Africa – in developing general financial management techniques to ensure the long term survival of their programmes and institutions….[more]
A Free Communications Handbook: Developing Good Practice for Women’s Rights Organisations
This handbook aims to be a useful reference guide for women’s rights organisations in Africa and will explore several forms of new media communications as well as the more traditional communications methods….[more]
A Free Toolkit for Mainstreaming Gender in Higher Education
The vision of gender equity and gender equality as absolutely essential for the transformation of African development has been articulated by both individuals and institutions. Gender exploitation and discrimination pose hazards and barriers to development, and gender studies provide the possibility of addressing some of these hazards and barriers with a view to influencing and facilitating more successful future development….[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…[more]
A Free Toolkit for Health Professional Advocates: Addressing the Health Workforce Crisis
The purpose of this toolkit is to assist health professionals, health professional associations, and civil society organizations to develop advocacy strategies to address human resource and health financing issues in their countries…[more]
A Free Safety and Security Toolkit: Strengthening the Implementation of HIV Programs
A guide to help HIV programme implementers, particularly those working in direct service delivery, address safety and security challenges when implementing programmes for and with key populations…[more]
Toolkits, training manuals, guides and other useful resources on a range of topics such as Agriculture, Business Development, Child Rights, Civil Society, Community Healthcare, Democracy and Good Governance, Education, Environmental Conservation, Food and Nutrition, HIV and AIDS, Human Rights, Labor and Employment, Media and Development, Narcotics, Peace and Conflict, Poverty Alleviation, Research and Development, Sustainable Development, Women and Gender, and Youth Development…[more]
