Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) has gained global recognition as a vital effort to empower adolescents and young people; enable them to improve and protect their health, well-being and dignity; and support them in developing critical thinking skills, citizenship, and equal, healthy and positive relationships. What will You Find in This Toolkit? What and why: This… [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 “Children and Adolescents’ Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights”: Activities Guide for Adolescents Age 14-17
‘Protecting Adolescents from Gender-Based Violence through the Promotion of their Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights’ is a three-year project launched by Save the Children. The aim to raise awareness and enhance protection of children and adolescents (10-17 years old) in the MENA region from gender-based violence (early marriage, FGM and sexual abuse) through promoting their… [Read More]
A Free Interfaith Guide to End Child Poverty
The Interfaith Initiative to End Child Poverty (End Child Poverty) is a multi-faith, child-centred, global initiative developed by Arigatou International’s Interfaith Initiative to End Child Poverty — a multifaith, child centred, global initiative that mobilises faith-inspired resources to end child poverty. End Child Poverty believes in a world where every child lives free of poverty…. [Read More]
A Free Children and Adolescents Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights Toolkit: Information Guide to Aid Facilitator
‘Protecting Adolescents from Gender Based Violence through the Promotion of their Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights’ is a three-year project launched by Save the Children that aims to raise awareness and enhance protection of children and adolescents (10-17 years old) in the MENA region from gender based violence (early marriage, FGM and sexual abuse) through… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit on “Children and Adolescents’ Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights”: Activities Guide for Children Age 10-13
‘Protecting Adolescents from Gender Based Violence through the Promotion of their Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights’ is a three-year project launched by Save the Children aimed to raise awareness and enhance protection of children and adolescents (10-17 years old) in the MENA region from gender based violence (early marriage, FGM and sexual abuse) through promoting… [Read More]
A Free REaDAPt Educational Toolkit
The REaDAPt Educational Toolkit helps countries to address these points by providing an educational measure to help support children. he Educational Toolkit was developed by the REaDAPt team following an evaluation of three European domestic abuse prevention education programmes: Relationships without Fear (Stoke on Trent, England); Filles et Garçons, en route pour l’Egalité (Muret, France),… [Read More]
A Free Handbook for National Human Rights Institutions: Reproductive Rights are Human Rights
The purpose of this handbook is to provide national human right institutions with tools and guidance on how to integrate reproductive rights into their work. Reproductive rights embrace certain human rights that are already recognized in national laws, international laws and international human rights documents and other consensus documents. These rights rest on the recognition… [Read More]
A Free Handbook: AISA Child Protection
The purpose if this AISA (Association of International Schools in Africa) Child Protection Handbook is to provide impetus and support for AISA and all international schools to embrace Child Protection as an essential responsibility of the school in their community and to embrace the school’s role and responsibility to ensure systems and programs are in… [Read More]
A Free Advocacy Toolkit: Scaling Up Life-Saving Commodities for Women, Children, and Newborns
This toolkit provides information about the UN Commission on Life-Saving Commodities (the Commission), 13 priority commodities, and examples of how its ten recommendations to improve access and availability are being applied globally and within countries. It also provides advocacy resources for utilizing the Commission platform to raise awareness and engage stakeholders in addressing commodity-related gaps… [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 Toolkit for Civil Society in Child Rights Programming
This module presents tools and resources designed to support donors to strategically engage with civil society in child rights programming. It also provides practical guidance for how donors can support the creation of an enabling environment for child-focused civil society organizations (CSOs) to operate in. This module: Explains the rationale of donor engagement with CSOs… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit on Education Financing
This toolkit aims to help education activists reinforce their advocacy and campaign work on education financing. It aims to give practical information in an accessible form, together with ideas for how to build an effective national campaign – the evidence you can build and the tactics you can deploy. It focuses on holding national governments,… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for Research and Development of Paediatric Antiretroviral Drugs and Formulations
This Toolkit for Research and Development of Paediatric Antiretroviral Drugs and Formulations was developed with the financial support of Unitaid, the International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials (IMPAACT) Network and the PENTA Foundation. The work of the Clinton Health Access Initiative on optimal antiretroviral drugs for children is made possible through the generous support… [Read More]
Free Guidelines for Integrating HIV and Gender-Related Issues into Environmental Assessment
The Guidelines for Integrating HIV and Gender-Related Issues into Environmental Assessment in Eastern and Southern Africa call for governments to recognize HIV risks, and to take the necessary steps to mitigate these risks in the development of infrastructure and execution of large capital projects. Infrastructure development is an important driver of employment and economic growth… [Read More]
A Free Advocacy Guide for Small and Diaspora NGOs
Understanding advocacy and how to use advocacy approaches and tools can help organisation’s to increase their impact. However often the technical language that surrounds advocacy, and concerns about risk, can make it seem more difficult and complicated than it really is. As part of the Common Ground Initiative Peer Learning Programme, INTRAC produced this toolkit… [Read More]
A Free ASPIRES Vulnerability Assessment Handbook for Economic Strengthening Projects
This handbook was developed by the ASPIRES project to assist practitioners and M&E specialists to select vulnerability assessment approaches for economic strengthening (ES) interventions, particularly those integrated into the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) programs for orphans and vulnerable children (OVC). The handbook is intended primarily for development programs in relatively stable contexts… [Read 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. This important resource was written by the African Network for the Care of Children Affected by AIDS (ANECCA), an informal network of health workers and social scientists committed to improving… [Read More]
Free Child Rights Education Toolkit: Rooting Child Rights in Early Childhood Education, Primary and Secondary Schools
UNICEF has developed a child rights’ education toolkit on Rooting Child Rights in Early Childhood Education, Primary and Secondary Schools. This Toolkit focuses on child rights education in the formal learning environment (early childhood education settings, primary and secondary schools), it is hoped that it will also be useful for those working to promote child… [Read More]
A Free EU-UNICEF Child Rights Toolkit: Integrating Child Rights in Development Cooperation
Since 2008, the European Union (EU) and its member States have been committed to applying a comprehensive and integrated human rights-based approach in all areas of EU external action, including EU development cooperation. The 2009 Treaty on European Union (Treaty of Lisbon) contains an explicit commitment to protect and promote the rights of the child,… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit on Youth Peer Education: Training of Trainers Manual
The Training of Trainers Manual is a curriculum tool to prepare master-level peer education trainers. The manual uses participatory techniques based on a variety of theoretical frameworks to ensure that future trainers are skilled and confident in their abilities to train peer educators and serve as informed resources for their peers. The manual resulted from… [Read More]
