Advocating Together: The Power of Alliances for Maternal Health provides guidance for national civil society organizations (CSOs) interested in establishing or strengthening an alliance in support of maternal health advocacy. The toolkit provides a step-by-step approach to working with partners in a national-level alliance to advocate for maternal health policy change. Divided into three major… [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 Practical Guide: Ending the AIDS Epidemic for Adolescents, With Adolescents
This document provides guidance to programme designers, implementers, policy and decision-makers on how to meaningfully engage adolescents in the AIDS response and broader health programming. It discusses the principles of meaningful collaboration, recommendations for engaging with adolescents, and offers case studies of meaningful youth participation. Adolescents (10–19) are the only age group in which AIDS-related… [Read More]
Free Toolkit on “Combatting Cybercrime : Tools and Capacity Building for Emerging Economies”
This Toolkit, Combating Cybercrime: Tools and Capacity Building for Emerging Economies, aims at building capacity to combat cybercrime among policy-makers, legislators, public prosecutors and investigators, as well as among individuals and in civil society at large in developing countries by providing a synthesis of good practices in the policy, legal and criminal-justice aspects of the… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for Integrating HIV and SRHR in Southern Africa
As HIV-SRHR integration occurs in Africa, AAI has identified that civil society from the HIV sector is also having to move into the SRHR sector. As a natural evolution into the SRHR sector this is an incredible opportunity for SRHR as more civil society experts are able to apply their many skills to this area… [Read More]
A Free Training Toolkit on Drug Policy Advocacy
This training toolkit has been developed by the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC) and the Eurasian Harm Reduction Network (EHRN) to build the capacity of civil society organisations for engaging with, and influencing, drug policy making processes. This toolkit can be used by anybody wishing to deliver trainings and workshops on drug policy advocacy to… [Read More]
A Free Governance of Transitions Toolkit
This toolkit provides insights on key governance aspects in regions that are pursuing the decarbonisation and diversification of their economies. These include: building effective governance models; designing and implementing stakeholder engagement and social dialogue processes; and enhancing the role of civil society in the transition. Aims This toolkit provides insights into three key questions for… [Read More]
A Free Youth Activism for Lebanese Accountability Training Toolkit
This toolkit — Youth Activism for Lebanese Accountability (YALA): An Inclusive Civic Engagement Training Curriculum — is about creating change through activism and accountability. It is about creating change at the individual, institutional, and socio-political level by providing young people with the knowledge and skills to help shape the future of their country. It was… [Read More]
A Free Training Toolkit on MSM Programming for the MENA Region
Resources for training and guiding community outreach workers, peer educators and managers of organizations that want to start programmes in their country or town with men who have sex with men. It consists of a project orientation manual, and a three-part training manual for volunteer peer educators. This orientation manual is the first of four… [Read More]
A Free HIV Cascade Toolkit: A User’s Guide for Constructing, Presenting, Interpreting and Using HIV Cascades in Vietnam
This user guide shows how to construct, present, interpret and use HIV cascades for the continuum of HIV prevention to care, with available data and minimal technical assistance. It includes recommended indicators, steps to follow, and guidelines and tips for illustrating cascade performance and interpreting the cascades. This user guide builds upon the World Health… [Read More]
A Free Environmental Rehabilitation and Repurposing Toolkit
This toolkit shares knowledge and experiences that may be valuable to those regions that are now taking on transition; and to provide guidance on environmental rehabilitation and repurposing with an emphasis on governance processes. The aim of this toolkit is to provide guidance on environmental rehabilitation and repurposing with an emphasis on governance processes. This… [Read More]
A Free Assessment Toolkit: Assessing Gender-Sensitive Implementation and Country-Level Monitoring of the Tenure Governance
ActionAid International has been working over the last few years with women and rural communities to challenge commercialization of land, which leads to loss of their rights to and control over land and other resources. The Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of tenure of land, forest and Fisheries – VGGTs, together with the AU… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit on Strengthening Citizen Action: Communication for Civil Society Organisations
This toolkit has been designed to add to the skills you already use for communicating about your work, as well as advocacy and mobilising communities for civic action. The materials in the kit will assist you to: Design communication strategies based on research, evidence and a solid understanding of the context. Identify tipping points for… [Read More]
Free Toolkit for National Platforms for Disaster Risk Reduction in Africa
This National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Tool Kit was developed for African countries by UNISDR Regional Office for Africa, based on information provided by national DRR focal points in Africa, with the kind support of the Federal Republic of Germany and the European Commission Humanitarian Aid Department (ECHO). Why is this toolkit necessary?… [Read More]
A Free Guide to Reporting Civic Space: Media Toolkit
This toolkit was produced by CIVICUS, the global civil society alliance, as part of the Civic Space Initiative (CSI). A partnership between CIVICUS, the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL), ARTICLE 19, and the World Movement for Democracy, The Civic Space Initiative (CSI) is working to protect and expand civic space by fostering an enabling… [Read More]
A Free Handbook for NGOs and CSOs: Engaging Africa-based Human Rights Mechanisms
This publication was produced under the ”Consolidating Civil Society’s Role in the Transition from African Human Rights Standards to Practice project”, funded by the European Union (EU) and implemented by the International Commission of Jurists – European Institutions (ICJ-EI), the African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies (ACDHRS), the ICJ Kenya Section and the… [Read More]
A Free Civil Society Accountability Toolkit – Uganda
Civil Society Accountability: Principles and Practice is a toolkit developed by the One World Trust in partnership with the Commonwealth Foundation and the Development Network of Indigenous Voluntary Associations. It explores what accountability means for civil society organisations in Uganda and provides suggestions on how to put accountability into practice. The toolkit has three aims:… [Read More]
A Free Civil Society Accountability Toolkit – South Africa
Civil Society Accountability: Principles and Practice – A toolkit for civil society organisations in South Africa was developed by the Commonwealth Foundation and the Co-operative for Research and Education (CORE), South Africa. It explores what accountability means for civil society organisations (CSOs) in the uniquely South African context. The aims of the toolkit are threefold:… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for Health Professional Advocates: Addressing the Health Workforce Crisis
The Health Workforce Advocacy Initiative (HWAI) is the civil-society led advocacy network of the Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA). HWAI’s purpose is to advocate for the policies and sustained investments necessary to develop and empower a health workforce capable of delivering on health goals. HWAI operates with the firm conviction that everyone has the right… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for Strengthening Partnerships: UNDP and Civil Society Organizations
This toolkit, produced by the Civil Society Organizations Division in the Bureau for Resources and Strategic Partnerships, is aimed at providing colleagues with practical guidance and essential information in forging partnerships with CSOs. It includes examples of innovative country-level mechanisms to build and strengthen collaboration with CSOs. This toolkit seeks to equip UNDP country offices… [Read More]
A Free Crimes Against Humanity Treaty Toolkit
A new convention on crimes against humanity (CAH) is in its final draft stages, but most civil society groups including women, LGBTIQ, disability, Indigenous, aboriginal, youth, caste, and racial and ethnic minority rights groups have not weighed in. While the current treaty draft embraces strong language from the Rome Statute (which created the International Criminal… [Read More]
