This report was developed by Social Entrepreneurship to Spur Health (SESH) and the Social Innovation in Health Initiative (SIHI). The development of this guide was supported by TDR, the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases. The report was also supported by the following grants: National Key Research and Development Program, National Institutes… [Read More]
A Free Guide on Strengthening Civil Society through Social Media
Social Networking: A Guide to Strengthening Civil Society through Social Media (#SMGuide4CSO) offers a high level overview of best practices used in social media for advocacy. Realizing the ever-changing landscape of social media, we have tried to avoid focusing on details associated with individual social platforms, as there are many and keeping track of them… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for Indicator Development in Justice and Safety
The Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management (PCJ) at Harvard Kennedy School has designed a Toolkit for Indicator Development in Justice and Safety, which is a self-directed instructional tool to help government agencies and non-government organizations to measure complex operations or persistent problems in the justice sector. This self-directed guide may be used by… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for Civil Society: Advocacy in Restricted Spaces
The Advocacy in Restricted Spaces toolkit is a practical resource that emphasizes that advocacy is possible even in highly restrictive contexts. Created by the Lifeline Embattled CSO Assistance Fund, a consortium led by Freedom House, the Advocacy in Restricted Spaces toolkit is intended for use by grassroots, national, and regional civil society organizations that want… [Read More]
A Free Climate Asia’s Communication Toolkit
Climate Asia with an aims to enable anyone, from governments and donors to the media and NGOs, to use what they have learned to develop their own communication to meet the public’s needs. The research was conducted in 2012 in Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan and Vietnam. BBC Media Action researchers traveled the length… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for African Policymakers
China’s rise to global prominence, founded on its economic achievements and its growing role in Africa, has inspired debate across the continent. This toolkit aims to provide African policymakers with the critical historical information and background needed to understand Chinese foreign policy towards Africa. As a people, the Chinese are acutely aware of history and… [Read More]
A Free Child-Centred Risk Reduction Impacts on Household Safety – Evaluation Toolkit
The purpose of this research was to design and test a toolkit that could be used to gather data on the impact that students who participate in child-centred risk reduction (CCRR, also called child-centred disaster risk reduction) programmes have on household safety. In particular, the toolkit collects information about if and how children share information… [Read More]
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Civil Society and Human Rights in Peril: Threats and Responses Across the World
[MUSIC PLAYING] Everybody, I know it's a Friday It's been a long week and this is the last mile, but you're all here for what I think is a very exciting event, this panel on Civil Society and Human Rights in Peril My name is Patrick Keller I'm a professor in the department of sociology,… [Read More]
Poverty in India | Wikipedia audio article
Poverty is a significant issue in India, despite being one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, clocked at a growth rate of 711% in 2015, and a sizable consumer economy The World Bank reviewed and proposed revisions on May 2014 to its poverty calculation methodology and purchasing power parity basis for measuring poverty worldwide… [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]
Bill Gates on role US should play in global poverty fight
♪ ♪ >> Chris: THE BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION IS THE WORLD'S LARGEST PRIVATE CHARITABLE FUND GIVING $46 BILLION IN GRANTS SINCE ITS FOUNDING IN 2000 AND LITERALLY SAVING MILLIONS OF LIVES THE MICROSOFT COFOUNDER CAME TO WASHINGTON THIS WEEK TO MAKE THE CASE FOR AMERICAN LEADERSHIP AND THE NEED FOR FOREIGN AID IN… [Read More]
Jan Egeland – Secretary General of the NGO Norwegian Refugee Council
So, Mr Egeland, thank you for accepting this interview on the occasion of the Forum Espace Humanitaire in Annecy This interview will be conducted by Antonio Donini, who is visiting fellow at the Feinstein International Center of the Tufts University, and research associate at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, and… [Read More]
