A toolkit to support local conversations aimed at understanding and reducing health inequalities. The National Conversation on Health Inequalities is a programme by Public Health England to start a conversation with the public about health inequalities and solutions to reduce these inequalities. This toolkit shows you how to start a conversation in your community. Seven… [Read More]
A Free Handbook on Intercultural Citizenship in the Euro-Mediterranean Region
The Anna Lindh Education Handbook on Intercultural Citizenship in the Euro-Mediterranean Region is a tool to support learning with young people focused on the knowledge and skills to play an active role in civic life at the local and international level. The Handbook covers both theoretical and practical aspects of intercultural citizenship learning, including practical… [Read More]
A Free Adolescent Girls Toolkit in Iraq
TheWomen Toolkit for Iraq is a collection of learning sessions and tools designed to empower adolescent girls from IDP, Refugee and Host communities in Iraq to address key issues on life skills, Reproductive Health, Gender Based Violence (GBV) and Financial Education. The Toolkit will support implementing partners to set up girl friendly spaces, carry out… [Read More]
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A Free Resource Guide on Claiming Women’s Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
A Resource Guide to Advancing Women’s Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Using the Optional Protocol and Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and the Optional Protocol and International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights. This Guide is one of several initiatives aimed at bringing greater recognition and accountability to… [Read More]
A Free Handbook for National Human Rights Institutions on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
This Handbook was prepared by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR). This handbook offers a survey of trends, examples, questions for consideration and recommendations to guide national human rights institutions in strengthening their capacity and practical work on women’s rights and gender equality. In 2011, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions… [Read More]
A Free Handbook on the Crime Prevention Guidelines: Making them Work
The present Handbook is one of a series of practical tools developed by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to support countries in the implementation of the standards and norms in crime prevention and criminal justice. These standards and norms support the rule of law, human rights and a culture of lawfulness… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for Policymakers: Mainstreaming Emergency Contraception in Developing Countries
This toolkit on mainstreaming emergency contraception in developing countries has been developed in response to one of the objectives of the 2006 initiative that sought to generate lessons that could serve as a model for other countries interested in improving access to EC, and to generate in-depth knowledge on EC program strategies and utilization characteristics… [Read More]
A Free Publication on Integrated Promotion of Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: Economic Empowerment, Decision-Making and Workloads
The causes of gender discrimination pervade different aspects of their lives – social, economic, political, environmental – affecting gender roles and relations in domestic, productive and public domains and from the local to the international level. Time-bound development projects need to address the cross-cutting and multifaceted nature of gender inequality through multiple entry points. Objectives… [Read More]
A Free Access to Finance for Renewable Energy Technologies Toolkit
Access to affordable, reliable and sustainable energy is often considered as vital to alleviating extreme poverty. Beyond technology, the challenge is to make these technologies accessible to rural populations. The toolkit focuses on end-user finance for renewable energy technologies for rural households, smallholder farmers, and rural micro, small and medium enterprises. Key issues Energy is… [Read More]
A Free Handbook on Capacity Development Needs Diagnostics for Renewable Energy (CADRE)
The Capacity Development Needs Diagnostics for Renewable Energy (CaDRE), introduced in this Handbook, helps policy makers, organisations and capacity development/renewable energy practitioners shape an environment conducive to the development of renewable energy. CaDRE is designed as a country-driven, comprehensive approach to analysing the capacity already in place, predicting future capacity needs, identifying capacity gaps and… [Read More]
A Free IRENA Handbook on Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs)
This publication should be cited as IRENA, ‘IRENA Handbook on Renewable Energy Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) – 2nd edition’. This second edition of IRENA´s Handbook on Renewable Energy Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) focuses on the role that NAMAs can play in promoting renewable energy for electricity generation in developing countries. The concept of… [Read More]
A Free Handbook on Combating Corruption
This handbook provides the 57 OSCE participating States and 11 Partners for Co-operation with a reference guide on available legal tools, the latest legislative and policy trends, and pertinent measures and practices to prevent and suppress corruption. It is aimed at raising awareness of the range of international instruments available to national policymakers and anti-corruption… [Read More]
Gender and Climate Change: Free Toolkit for Women on Climate Change
This toolkit aims to deepen our analysis from a broader and human-centered perspective on this imperative global issue of climate change and the mounting resistance to the corporate-driven false solutions that only deteriorate the catastrophe. In plain language, it provides community-based or grassroots organisations basic information on climate change and how to communicate climate justice… [Read More]
Free National Action Plans Toolkit on Business and Human Rights
The overall goal of this Toolkit is to promote implementation of the UNGPs and other relevant business and human rights frameworks by states and businesses. The 2017 edition has been updated to reflect feedback from practitioners who have used the Toolkit to develop NAPs. Specifically, the Toolkit provides step-by-step guidance on how to develop a… [Read More]
A Free Publication on Nutrition-Sensitive Value Chains
This publication has been produced to fill a key knowledge gap in the emerging field of value chains for nutrition by providing guidance on how to design nutrition-sensitive value chain (NSVC) projects, with a particular focus on smallholder producers. This guide provides validated step-by-step guidance for NSVC project design, relevant not only for IFAD but… [Read More]
A Free Publications on Ensuring Gender Equity in Climate Change Financing
Climate change, the long-term rise in the average temperature of the earth’s surface, is one of the most serious issues confronting humanity. Ensuring that climate change finance impacts women and men more equitably entails targeted attention within each step of the financing process. Several suggested actions are highlighted below: Incorporate gender analytical tools into all… [Read More]
A Free Resilience Building Guide
This guidance document is meant to support practitioners working in disaster prone contexts to develop and implement more effective integrated resilience programming. It promotes programming that cuts across different fields of work like rights awareness, food security, emergency preparedness, livelihoods, education, health etc. whilst at the same time encouraging us to work simultaneously at the… [Read More]
A Free Resilience Handbook to Integrated Resilience Programming
The Resilience Handbook aims to help us think, plan and implement our work in a way that supports the reduction of people’s vulnerability, and contributes to the building of their resilience to a range of hazards, shocks, stresses and threats. It provides programme and policy staff with a framework for resilience that can be applied… [Read More]
A free Information Against Hate Crimes Toolkit (INFAHCT)
The Information Against Hate Crimes Toolkit (INFAHCT), developed by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), applies the principles and recommendations from ODIHR’s Hate Crime Data-Collection and Monitoring Mechanisms: A Practical Guide to national realities. As such, it contributes to fulfilling ODIHR’s mandate to “assist participating States upon their request in developing… [Read More]
