The IFC Food Safety Toolkit is designed to enable companies in developing markets reduce a key risk in growing a sustainable food business: meeting the ever-increasing demands, needs, expectations and trust of customers, wholesalers, retailers, government food safety regulators, and ultimately, consumers. The Toolkit was developed by IFC with food industry help and expertise. It… [Read More]
Business and Development Resources
A list of free guides, how-to tools and other resources on Business and Development for NGOs and development professionals.
A Free Information Technology Security Handbook
Information Technology Security Handbook is a practical guide to understanding and implementing IT security in your home or business environment. It has been written primarily for readers in developing countries, although the Handbook provides best practices valid in any situation. In addition to summarizing current physical and electronic threats to IT security, the Handbook also… [Read More]
A Free Handbook: Mobile Money Policy and Regulatory
Mobile money is helping to make the financial services industry more efficient and inclusive. This has opened access to a broad range of essential financial services for millions of unserved and underserved people. In the Handbook, we explore regulatory challenges that have faced industry since its inception, and recommend approaches key stakeholders can take towards… [Read More]
A Free OECD Sustainable Manufacturing Toolkit
The OECD Sustainable Manufacturing Toolkit aims to provide a practical starting point for businesses around the world to improve the efficiency of their production processes and products enabling them to contribute to sustainable development and green growth. The Toolkit includes an internationally applicable common set of indicators helping businesses measure their environmental performance at the… [Read More]
A Free Guide for Developing Countries: Innovation Policy
The presentation of innovation policy in this volume offers a detailed conceptual framework for understanding and learning about technology innovation policies and programs and their implementation in different countries. Inspired by the experience of both developed and developing countries, the book focuses on the latter’s needs and issues. The publication’s main audience is the policy-making… [Read More]
A Free Handbook to Strengthen Planning and Budgeting Processes: Mainstreaming Environment and Climate for Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development
This Handbook is designed as guidance for policymakers and practitioners to mainstream pro-poor environment and climate concerns into planning, budgeting and monitoring. Mainstreaming is achieved by putting poverty-environment issues at the heart of government—in other words, by taking these issues into mainstream economic decision-making processes, particularly the national and subnational planning and budgeting processes led… [Read More]
A Free guide for medical entrepreneurs: Establishing Private Health Care Facilities in Developing Countries
This book is a practical guide for medical professionals who are interested in establishing health care facilities in developing countries. It is intended for individuals and organizations with little or no business experience who are seeking guidance on how to turn a general idea into concrete reality. Goals Our goals in writing the book were… [Read 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. It is also aimed at those wanting to foster regional harmonisation, allowing for cross-border initiatives that can increase economies of scale and thus the attractiveness of the… [Read More]
Free Toolkit on Poverty Reduction through Tourism
This toolkit aims at assisting developing and least developed countries to create a sustainable tourism industry and businesses based on decent employment. It is oriented towards SMEs and local communities in rural areas and includes case studies, training sessions and best practices. The toolkit outlines the background to poverty reduction approaches, and how the ILO… [Read More]
A Free Market Assessment Toolkit for Vocational Training Providers and Youth
This toolkit contains guidance on how to link vocational training programs to market opportunities. The three-part Market Assessment Toolkit for VT Providers and Youth is a combination of resources, questionnaires and activities to assist VT programs and youth to gather information on market demand and translate it into programming that responds to a dynamic business… [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]
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 Handbook for Starting and Sustaining an NGO
Have you ever seen a problem and wanted to do something about it? Of course you have. The schools, police, government welfare offices, churches and families aren’t handling it. Others share your concerns and want to do something. That’s why you would start a nongovernmental organization, or NGO. This handbook will guide you through the… [Read More]
A Free Healthy Built Environment (HBE) Linkages Toolkit
The HBE Linkages Toolkit describes how population health is influenced by the design of our neighbourhoods, housing, transportation systems, natural environments, and food systems. The purpose of this Toolkit is to generate conversation and adaptation by outlining a rationale for “why” the built environment is important for health. It brings together research based key messages… [Read More]
The Lean & Environment Free Toolkit for Practitioner
The Lean and Environment Toolkit offers practical strategies and techniques to Lean implementers about how to improve Lean results—waste elimination, quality enhancement, and delivery of value to customers—while achieving environmental performance goals. The toolkit also provides tools to help your organization get better environmental performance from Lean efforts on the shop floor. The EPA’s intent… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for Water Auditors: Commercial and Institutional Sectors
This toolkit is intended as a guide to those water districts and/or companies, agencies or academic institutions wishing to take first steps to becoming more water efficient and ecologically responsible. The technical information in this toolkit is standard practice and state of the art at the time of writing. Every user and every location needs… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for Practitioners: Interactive Radio for Development Projects
This Interactive Radio Toolkit is adapted from and expands on Interactive Radio for Agricultural Development Projects: A Toolkit for Practitioners in December 2012 under USAID’s FACET project. Though many examples used here highlight agriculture, this adaptation is for development projects more broadly and draws on the wisdom and experience of colleagues in many fields who… [Read More]
A Free CleanGovBiz Toolkit for Integrity: A Unique Resource for Promoting Integrity in Practice
The CleanGovBiz Toolkit for Integrity provides a unique resource for governments to scale up their efforts to fight corruption and improve integrity across the board. The Toolkit draws together existing instruments and tools in multiple policy domains, together with guidance on how to tackle corruption in these areas. It provides for a comprehensive approach against… [Read More]
A Free Practice Guide for a Positive Business and Investment Climate
OSCE’s Best-Practice Guide for a Positive Business and Investment has been developed in response to a request made by the OSCE participating States that the Organization should facilitate higher levels of information availability and experience-sharing on best practices in the areas of investment and small and medium-size enterprise (SME) development. The principal objective of this… [Read More]
A Free Guide on Child Safeguarding Toolkit For Business
This is a step-by-step guide to identifying and preventing risks to children who interact with your business. This toolkit is relevant for all companies, of all sizes and at different levels of maturity in addressing sustainability and corporate responsibility challenges. It provides companies from all industries with guidance on how to identify and mitigate actual… [Read More]
