The purpose of this booklet is to provide information on the regional governance system and share some ideas on how civil society can constructively engage to influence policy. Pacific Leaders have expressed their ambition to come together as a region to collaborate around regional solutions and move closer to regional integration. This is the vision… [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 Guide for Civil Society Organizations on how to engage with the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
This Guide aims to be a resource for civil society organizations (CSO) who are interested in finding out more about the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC) and the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (the Committee). It reflects important developments relating to the… [Read More]
A Free Tool for Strengthening Civil Society Organizations and Government Partnerships to Scale Up Approaches
This tool is a living document that provides guidance on good partnership practices that promote strong relationships between civil society organizations and government representatives on engaging men and boys in gender equality and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). Its goal is to strengthen these partnerships in order to enable the scale up and/or… [Read More]
Free Toolkit for Action on how Sports can Contribute to Achieve SDGs
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development acknowledges sport as an important enabler of sustainable development, recognizing the growing contribution of sport to the realization of development and peace in its promotion of tolerance and respect and the contributions that it makes to the Sustainable Development Goals. This toolkit reflects the experiences of various UN entities,… [Read More]
A Free Commonwealth Toolkit for Policy Progress on LGBT Rights
Across the Commonwealth incremental gains are being made in the struggle for equal rights for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans (LGBT) citizens. In many countries, governments and civil society have quietly expanded progress through areas of policy enacted by executive, legislative and judicial branches of government. While 40 of the 53 Commonwealth members still criminalise… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for Civil Society to Resist the Privatisation of Education: Public Good Over Private Profit
This toolkit is intended as a resource for civil society coalitions and organisations with a rights-based understanding of education, who want to better understand the development and impact of privatisation in the education sector in their country, and who may be thinking about, or have already embarked on, advocacy against the harmful effects of privatisation…. [Read More]
A Free Right to Education Handbook
The Right to Education Initiative (RTE) with UNESCO have developed this handbook to guide action on ensuring full compliance with the right to education. Its objective is not to present the right to education as an abstract, conceptual, or purely legal concept, but rather to be action-oriented. The ultimate aim of this handbook is to… [Read More]
A Free Handbook on Child-Responsive Urban Planning: Shaping Urbanization for Children
Shaping urbanization for children, a handbook on child-responsive urban planning, presents concepts, evidence and technical strategies to bring children to the foreground of urban planning. By focusing on children, this publication provides guidance on the central role that urban planning should play in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), from a global perspective to a… [Read More]
A Free INSPIRE Handbook: Action for Implementing the Seven Strategies for Ending Violence Against Children
The INSPIRE handbook: action for implementing the seven strategies for ending violence against children explains in detail how to choose and implement interventions that will fit your needs and context. The seven strategy-specific chapters address the Implementation and enforcement of laws; Norms and values; Safe environments; Parent and caregiver support; Income and economic strengthening; Response… [Read More]
A Free LAW Property Rights and Gender Training Toolkit
This Program aims to increase farmers’ awareness of land rights, facilitate their ability to exercise these rights, collect evidence on the (key) barriers farmers face in upholding land rights, and strengthen the capacity of local civil society organizations and mass organizations to advocate for gender equitable application of existing laws. A key activity in the… [Read More]
A Free Good Practice Sourcebook on Health Impact Assessment
This publication provides practical tools and guidance on how development projects of the Asian Development Bank can improve the health of the communities that they serve. This sourcebook provides up-to-date information regarding ADB environmental safeguards, poverty and social analysis, and compliance procedures in order to support the process of health impact assessment. It is a… [Read More]
A Free Handbook for Monitoring Administrative Justice
This handbook provides an overview of main fair trial rights and OSCE commitments applicable to judicial hearings within administrative justice, as well as practical information for establishing and running a trial monitoring operation in the field of administrative justice. The handbook is based on international, European and other regional standards, including OSCE commitments, as well… [Read More]
A Free Global Faces of Inequality Campaign Toolkit
The global Faces of Inequality Campaign aims to target inequalities in all its different forms – gender, income, wealth, geographical, environmental, abilities, political, ethnic, and other discriminations. Aims Faces of Inequality aims: To give social exclusion, poverty and discrimination a face. To give people suffering from inequalities and their fight for rights and justice a… [Read More]
A Free Good Practice Guide: HIV and Sexual and Reproductive Health
This guide contains information, strategies and resources which define Alliance Good Practice Programming Standards. The Good Practice Guide on the Integration of HIV and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights brings together expertise from the Alliance global community, current research and other key external materials. This guide contains information, strategies and resources which define Alliance… [Read More]
A Free Good Practice Guide: Community-Based TB/HIV Integration
This guide is one in a series of good practice guides produced by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance (the Alliance). This series brings together expertise from global community-level HIV programming to define and guide good practice in a range of technical areas, including: Human rights and GIPA, HIV prevention, Sexual and reproductive health and rights and… [Read More]
A Free Good Practice Guide: HIV and Human Rights
This guide is a practical tool for HIV programmers to help you to respond to human rights within your HIV and broader health programmes. It was developed by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance (the Alliance) and the AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (ARASA). The Guide provides a clear rationale for the integration of human… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit to Combat Smuggling of Migrants
This Toolkit has been designed to assist countries to implement the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. Virtually every country in the world is used by profit-seeking criminals for smuggling migrants—either as a country of origin, a transit country or… [Read More]
A Free Advocacy Toolkit for Key Populations
This tool is intended to support national-level advocacy as an element of HIV programmes designed with and for key populations. The publication explains how civil society organisations and networks can use the EMPAD Policy Framework for:designing new advocacy and campaign programmes;developing advocacy-related funding proposals; andcommunicating advocacy work around key populations. In some settings, established decision-makers… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit on Advocating Together: The Power of Alliances for Maternal Health
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]
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]
