The Feed the Future civil society engagement handbook outlines engagement practices for promoting local ownership and engaging civil society in an effort to translate aid effectiveness principles into practical mechanisms to advance development that is more participatory, inclusive, transparent, accountable and sustainable. These engagement practices, and the country examples provided, are intended to support Feed… [Read More]
Civil Society Resources
A list of free guides, how-to tools and other resources on Civil Society Development for NGOs and development professionals.
A Free Toolkit on the Right to Health for Southern and East Africa
This toolkit is an adaptation of ‘A toolkit on the Right to Health’ first published in 2011 by the Learning Network on Health and Human Rights (as First edition: Toolkit on the Right to Health). This toolkit was designed in response to the need for a practical tool to empower communities in Southern and East… [Read More]
A Free National Action Plan Development Toolkit
National Action Plan Development Toolkit shows how you can use the global Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda as a tool to promote greater gender justice, peace and freedom for all in your own country. You will find information on how to advocate for the development of a National Action Plan (NAP) on Women, Peace and… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit: “From Policy to Action”- Beyond 2015
Beyond 2015 is a global civil society campaign, aiming to develop a strong framework to replace the Millennium Development Goals. Beyond 2015 brings together more than 1300 Civil Society Organizations in over 130 countries around the world. Beyond 2015 has two main goals: A global overarching cross-thematic framework for development after 2015. A participatory and… [Read More]
A Free Campaigning Toolkit for CSOs Engaged in the Millennium Development Goals
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) form an ambitious agenda for reducing poverty and improving lives. World leaders formulated the MDGs at the United Nations Millennium Summit in September 2000. Each goal contains one or more targets to be reached by 2015, and each country has to set realistic, time-bound and measurable national development goals in… [Read More]
A Free Guide to Coorperation among the Ombusman, Children and Civil Society Organizations
The Guide to Coorperation among the Ombusman, Children and Civil Society Organizations is perceived as a guiding and suggesting document that will help Ombusman Office to enhance its cooperation with children and the civil society in Albania. This guide aims at enhancing cooperation among the Ombusman Office, children and civil society. This document has been… [Read More]
A Free Development Marketplace Grantee Toolkit
The Development Marketplace (DM) is a competitive grant program that identifies and supports field testing of innovative, early stage ideas with potential for high development impact. Administered by the World Bank, it attracts ideas from a range of innovators, including civil society groups, social entrepreneurs, academia and private sector. Development Marketplace Advances in M&E Practice… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit on HIV and AIDS in Places of Detention
This toolkit on HIV and AIDS in prisons aims to provide information and guidance primarily to individuals and institutions with responsibilities for prisons and prisoners, and to people who work in and with prisons. In addition, it will assist everyone who has anything to do with prisons. It is written primarily for use in low-… [Read More]
A Free Handbook on Costing Gender Equality
This handbook is a comprehensive step-by-step guide to costing gender equality priorities. Building on UN Women’s decade long work on gender responsive planning and budgeting, it responds to the growing global demand for guidance on estimating the financing gaps and requirements for achieving gender equality commitments and builds on UN Women’s decade-long work on gender… [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 Toolkit: Achieving the Global Transition to Energy Efficient Lighting
The Energy Efficient Lighting Toolkit was developed to present a concise set of options and policy suggestions to countries and interested takeholders. It provides efficient lighting best practices and case studies from programmes throughout the world. It addresses technology, policy, consumer and environmental protection issues. It enables a country to select relevant information and guidance… [Read More]
A Free Handbook for Civil Society: Working with the United Nations Human Rights Programme
A Handbook for Civil Society is a new, user-friendly and authoritative publication on United Nations human rights bodies and mechanisms – explaining how they work and exploring the many important ways that civil society actors including NGOs can contribute to their work. This publication is addressed to the civil society actors who, every day in… [Read More]
A Free Guide to the Implementation of the World Programme of Action for Youth
The World Programme of Action for Youth encourages governments to be more responsive to the aspirations and needs of youth to usher in a better world. Young people in all countries are both a major human resource for development and key agents for social change, economic development and technological innovation. Recognizing and addressing the special… [Read More]
A Free Handbook for National Human Rights Institutions on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
This Handbook was prepared by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR). This handbook offers a survey of trends, examples, questions for consideration and recommendations to guide national human rights institutions in strengthening their capacity and practical work on women’s rights and gender equality. In 2011, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit on Training Manual for MSM Peer Educators – Module 3: Implementation and Evaluation
This orientation manual has been developed jointly by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Regional Support Team for the Middle East and North Africa (UNAIDS RST MENA), the International HIV/AIDS Alliance (the Alliance) and its partners in the region: ATL (Association Tunisienne de lutte contre les MST/SIDA), APCS (Association de Protection Contre le… [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 Information Against Hate Crimes Toolkit (INFAHCT)
The Information Against Hate Crimes Toolkit (INFAHCT), developed by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), applies the principles and recommendations from ODIHR’s Hate Crime Data-Collection and Monitoring Mechanisms: A Practical Guide to national realities. As such, it contributes to fulfilling ODIHR’s mandate to “assist participating States upon their request in developing… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit on Training Manual for MSM PEER Educators – Module 2: Skills Development
The training manual for MSM Peer Educators was written by Nadia Badran, in collaboration with John Howson. Staff from the Alliance, UNAIDS RST MENA and USAID Middle East Bureau and the Office of HIV/AIDS provided feedback and inputs during the writing process and completed the toolkit. Module 2 supports participants to practise the skills necessary… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for CSO’s in Africa: Monitoring Government Policies
This project was started by the three agencies with a view to supporting partner organisations, particularly church-based organisations, to hold their governments to account for the consequences of their policies. This toolkit specifically targets African partners, seeking to share the struggles and successes of partners already monitoring government policies with those that are new to… [Read More]
