The toolkit is designed to be used by Child Safeguarding Country Leads and Focal Points, deployable Safeguarding/PSEA staff, and humanitarian/operational managers with responsibility for safeguarding. The toolkit is not designed to be read cover-to-cover, but instead for you and your teams to dip in and out of as needed, with further reading, resources and examples… [Read More]
Child Rights Resources
A list of free guides, how-to tools and other resources on Child Rights and Development for NGOs and development professionals.
A Free Toolkit on The Future Is Ours: Strategic Foresight – Making Better Decisions
This toolkit offers a set of 12 techniques to help teams navigate the present and shape the future. Working with the School of International Futures, they have selected foresight tools widely used in the public and private sectors, and adapted them to serve the particular needs of Save the Children and the partner organisations. The… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit of Good Practice
This toolkit of good practice has been designed to offer advice, ideas and guidance for involving children in consultations at national, regional and international levels. It intends to provide organisations with useful material for involving children in discussions about issues that affect them. The toolkit includes information on how to get started, organising a consultation,… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for Integrating Children’s Sexuality and Gender in Programmes dealing with Sexual & Reproductive Health and Rights
The objective of this toolkit is to assist civil society organizations to enhance their capacities and efficiency in responding adequately to issues of sexuality, gender and SRHR within the context of HIV, sexual and reproductive health rights and education and services for children. It is designed to assist organizations working in the field of HIV… [Read More]
A Free Durable Solutions for Children Toolkit
The Toolkit allows practitioners to build evidence-based and child-focused, long-term solutions and advocacy interventions. It provides substantial direction on issues of return and re-integration and outlines options, actions and legal guidance related to local integration and resettlement. It can help measure child specific gaps in displacement and irregular migration settings, shape policy and decision-making, monitor… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for Positive Change
This Toolkit documents the strategies of The Positive Change: Children, Communities and Care (PC3) Program – a five-year (2004-2009) integrated and comprehensive program designed to provide care and support to more than half a million orphaned and vulnerable children and their families throughout Ethiopia. This Toolkit shares the key strategies and tools which were… [Read More]
A Free Play it Fair! Toolkit
Play It Fair! is an easy to use educational Toolkit developed by Equitas to promote human rights, non-discrimination and peaceful conflict resolution within non-formal education programs for children aged 6-12 years old, such as summer camps or after school activities. What are the values promoted by the Toolkit? The Toolkit helps to reinforce the positive… [Read More]
A Free Child- and Youth-Friendly Participatory Action Research Toolkit
This toolkit is designed to help ensure children have the opportunity to participate in the identification and analysis of issues and in the planning and implementation of solutions. It can also help programme staff understand child protection problems/strengths; assess situations; develop and evaluate programmes; develop protection measures, networks, and response mechanisms; and find programmatic gaps. This… [Read More]
A Free Resource Toolkit on Disparities in Education in South Asia
The Tool Kit is a contribution to UNICEF’s renewed focus on reaching the most disadvantaged children by taking stock of what they already know in education in South Asia from a number of publications produced by UNICEF ROSA, research groups and other organisations over the last few years. This Resource Tool Kit has been developed… [Read More]
A Free Interagency Working Group on Unaccompanied and Separated Children Alternative Care in Emergencies Toolkit
The Alternative Care in Emergencies (ACE) Toolkit is designed to facilitate interagency planning and implementation of alternative care and related services for children separated from or unable to live with their families during and after an emergency. There is no single type of care placement that will meet the needs of all children. Each emergency… [Read More]
A Free Resource Guide for Trade Unions and A Call Against Child Labour and for Education for All
This manual is designed as a resource guide for trade unions. Its purpose is to act as a general introduction to the reality of child labour and to explain why education is such a key strategy in tackling child labour. It provides an overview of the key international standards and the main commitments endorsed by… [Read More]
A Free Youth Participation Best Practices Toolkit: Part II
This is the second part of the Youth Participation Toolkit, coordinated by Save the Children. It contains tools, methods, tips, exercises, and training workshops for improving youth participation. The Education for Youth Empowerment (EYE) program targets a relatively wide age group, 12 – 24 year olds, in various countries. The toolkit is rather generic so… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit on Youth Participation Best Practices – Part I
This is the first part of the Youth Participation Toolkit, coordinated by Save the Children. A central element of Save the Children’s Child Rights Programming guidelines is to ensure the participation of children and young people. Participation enables children and youth to influence the actions and decisions affecting their lives and empowers them to advocate for… [Read More]
A Free Practitioner’s Guide to Child Rights Programming: Getting it Right for Children
This guide has been developed by the Save the Children CRP-PEN (Child Rights Programming Professional Exchange Network). This guide provides ideas and tools that will enable development and humanitarian workers to put children and their rights at the centre of their programmes. This child rights programming (CRP) practitioners’ guide will help you apply child rights… [Read More]
A Free Youth Leaders for Nutrition Advocacy Toolkit
A toolkit for youth advocates, designed by youth advocates. Any young person with a desire and drive to create change can become an advocate. This toolkit focuses specifically on helping you to improve the nutrition of adolescents and youth in your community, but the approach can be applied to other issues too. To help you… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for Women’s Economic Empowerment for Anti-Violence Centres’ Operators
This resource kit is a training toolkit to build or improve the practitioners’ know-how and skills for supporting women in an effort to increase their social and economic empowerment with the goal of becoming self-sufficient in order to live a life free from intimate partner violence. The toolkit provides methodologies and tools that can be… [Read More]
A Free ToolKit for Children and Youth on Conflict Management and Peace Building in Every Day Life
This resource kit contains a series of tools for children and young people to use to analyze conflict, manage conflict and build peace. Tools include practical steps to use the tool, visual illustrations and feedback from children and youth. This resource kit builds upon and provides links to other practical resources, including a digital resource-book… [Read More]
A Free Youth Advocacy Toolkit for every Child in Danger
Advocacy is all about having your voice heard and changing the world. Youth-led advocacy is about supporting children and young people to speak up and helping them actively take part in the decisions that affect their lives. This toolkit will give you the skills and information you need to stand up for what is important… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit to Support Youth at Risk in Middle Income Countries
The World Bank has produced this “Supporting Youth at Risk: A Policy Toolkit for Middle Income Countries” in response to a growing demand from the government clients and partners for advice on how to create and implement effective policies for at-risk youth. Areas The following five key risk areas for young people around the world:… [Read More]
A Free EU Alliance for Investing in Children Advocacy Toolkit
The EU Alliance for Investing in Children has prepared an Advocacy Toolkit which will support the advocacy work of networks and organisations on tackling and preventing child poverty and promoting child well-being at national and sub-national level. This toolkit aims to support national advocacy strategies to implement the EC Recommendation, including supporting the development of… [Read More]
