Poverty alleviation is a crucial component to achieving Save the Children’s global strategy of child survival, learning, and protection from violence. While many studies suggest that economic strengthening programmes can lead to many benefits to children of beneficiaries, other studies show that programmes may have an insignificant, inconclusive, or even harmful effect on children. In… [Read More]
A Free Take Action Toolkit
The ITF End Violence against Women Transport Workers ‘Take Action Toolkit’ for affiliates wanting to expand or kick-start their action on ending violence against women transport workers. This toolkit is aimed at those running workshops and campaigns, those who are involved in collective bargaining, those who are seeking education on the issue and those who… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for Transformative Organizational Capacity Building: The Power of Gender-Just Organizations
This toolkit is designed primarily for practitioners who have responsibility for managing relatively large, multi-year organizational capacity building programs on gender equality and women’s rights, involving multiple partners. These practitioners may work in Oxfam or other development NGOs and support capacity building programs with local NGOs and CBOs. The tools we developed included a Capacity… [Read More]
A Free Save the Children Gender Equality Program Guidance & Toolkit: Engendering Transformational Change
Core funding for the Gender Toolkit was provided by the Nike Foundation, through the Save the Children US GIRL Project. The development of the Toolkit was a collaborative effort guided by Save the Children’s Gender Equality Working Group (GEWG) and drawing on contributions from across the global movement. The GEWG comprises staff from Save the… [Read More]
A Free Human Rights Toolkit for Water and Sanitation Advocates
The End Water Poverty and UNISON, the UK’s largest union, published the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation Advocacy Toolkit for civil society, trade unionists and activists. This toolkit equips advocates with tactics and strategies to hold governments accountable for guaranteeing people’s access to water and sanitation. It starts by guiding readers through the international… [Read More]
A Free Youth Employment Toolkit
This toolkit is designed for shelters, housing providers, youth-serving agencies and other organizations concerned about homeless and at-risk youth in Canada. It is outlines some ideas for providing a youth employment project for at-risk youth and is designed to create a model that is flexible and adaptable. The case studies and resource materials are based… [Read More]
A Free ‘It’s Time to Talk! – Children’s Views on Children’s Work’ Toolkit
It’s Time to Talk! – Children’s Views on Children’s Work’ (hereinafter: Time to Talk) was launched by Kindernothilfe, Save the Children Canada, and Terre des Hommes International Federation. Child focused agencies including Kindernothilfe, Save the Children, terre des hommes and others are part of an international campaign and research process “It’s Time to Talk –… [Read More]
Civil Society | Yascha Mounk: How do we save democracy? | March 29, 2018.
[music] Yascha Mounk: But what we've seen over the last 20, 25 years is that nationalism is not going away as a political force And so I think it's a half-domesticated animal If you leave it to its own devices, the worst kinds of people are gonna come in In the United States, they tend… [Read More]
Poverty | Wikipedia audio article
Poverty is the scarcity or the lack of a certain (variant) amount of material possessions or money Poverty is a multifaceted concept, which may include social, economic, and political elements Absolute poverty, extreme poverty, or destitution refers to the complete lack of the means necessary to meet basic personal needs such as food, clothing and… [Read More]
