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]
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 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 IDA’s contribution to the UN Women Intersectionality Toolkit
The toolkit, funded by the UN Partnership for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNPRPD), explains and provides practical guidance and concrete examples to promote inclusive programming and practices by UN Country Teams (UNCTs) and governments. This Resource Guide and Toolkit offers a starting point for those wishing to deepen their understanding and apply… [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 Women-Friendly Urban Planning Toolkit
Cities Alliance has launched the new Toolkit for Women-Friendly Urban Planning from Cities of the Global South. The Toolkit will provide local governments, civil society organizations, and urban practitioners with the tools and knowledge to incorporate women’s and girls’ needs and voices in urban planning. Urban infrastructure and public spaces should be planned and managed… [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 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 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]
A Free Toolkit on Domestic Financing for Education
This toolkit has been produced by the Global Campaign for Education (GCE) in collaboration with ActionAid International (AAI) and Education International (EI), and with funding from the Global Partnership for Education (GPE). It aims to support civil society organisations and education activists across low- and middle-income countries to advocate and campaign on issues related to… [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 Advocacy Handbook for Youth Organisations
Youth organisations across Europe share a vision: to empower young people and fight for their rights. As most youth organisations are super busy, this vision translates into many missions and activities. Among these activities, for organisations at all levels, advocacy is having an ever more important role. It is essentially the process through which non-profit… [Read More]
Free Policy Advocacy Toolkit: How to Influence Public Policy for Social Justice and Gender Equality in Africa
This policy advocacy toolkit was developed to assist African civil society organisations to effectively contribute to the development and implementation of public policy for social justice and gender equality or to challenge proposed laws and policies that undermine gender equality and human rights. This toolkit provides definitions of advocacy and policy advocacy; identifies key players… [Read More]
A Free Civil Society Accountability Toolkit in the Pacific Region
Civil Society Accountability: Principles and Practice is a toolkit developed by the One World Trust in partnership with the Commonwealth Foundation and Pacific Islands Association for Non Governmental Organisations (PIANGO). It explores what accountability means for civil society organisations in the Pacific region and provides tips on how to put accountability into practice. The aims… [Read More]
A Free Civil Society Accountability Toolkit – India
Civil Society Accountability: Principles and Practice is a toolkit developed by the One World Trust in partnership with the Commonwealth Foundation and Voluntary Action Network India. It explores what accountability means for civil society organisations in India and provides suggestions on how to put accountability into practice. The toolkit has three aims: To identify common… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit on ‘Advocating for Change for Adolescents’
This toolkit is a joint initiative made possible by a collaboration between the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (the Partnership) and Women Deliver, with the support of several partners and contributors. This toolkit was developed by young people, for young people, to be used by networks of youth-led and youth-serving organizations to change… [Read More]
