This handbook aims to be a road map for anyone working with the community to achieve environmental change, including environmental educators and managers, Bushcare or Landcare coordinators, local government environment officers, and community development officers. It is especially designed for the many people with natural science backgrounds now involved in community projects to conserve species,… [Read More]
Education Resources
A list of free guides, how-to tools and other resources on Education for NGOs and development professionals.
A Free Toolkit for the Evaluation of Financial Capability Programs in Low and Middle-Income Countries
When resources are scarce and social safety nets are weak, households’ ability to manage income and assets wisely may be an important determinant of economic security. However, many open questions remain about how households in low- and middle-income countries gain and exercise financial capability, and the best ways for governments and the private/nonprofit sector to… [Read More]
Using Gender Statistics: A Free Toolkit for Training Data Users
This toolkit aims to support statistical systems to increase the understanding and use of gender statistics by government officials and other development practitioners. It has been developed for countries in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia and builds on the work to strengthen gender statistics across this region. This toolkit will support gender focal points… [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 Handbook in Entrepreneurship: How to Start an Eco-friendly Small-scale Business
This handbook sets forth a structure for the development of economically profi table, socially responsible and eco-friendly small-scale business initiatives. The handbook focuses upon students in formal and non-formal education, but since it builds upon a methodology for the development of small-scale business in the local community it can also be used for groups of… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for Protection of Persons with Disabilities
This toolkit is primarily intended for use by Handicap International staff and key partners. Any dissemination beyond its original objective should take place in consultation with Handicap International Sri Lanka. Objectives Raising awareness of protection framework and basic principles; Increasing understanding of particular protection risks faced by Persons with Disabilities; Providing guidance on identification, assessment,… [Read More]
Free Toolkit for a Sustainable Health Workforce in the WHO European Region
The toolkit supports Towards a sustainable health workforce in the WHO European Region: framework for action, which aims to achieve a sustainable health workforce in the WHO European Region. The overall goal of the framework is to accelerate progress towards achieving the population health objectives of the European health policy framework, Health 2020, and longer-term… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit on “Children and Adolescents’ Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights”: User Guide
Protecting Adolescents from Gender Based Violence through the Promotion of their Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights’ is a three-year project launched by Save the Children aimed to raise awareness and enhance protection of children and adolescents (10-17 years old) in the MENA region from gender based violence (early marriage, FGM and sexual abuse) through promoting… [Read More]
A Free Life Skills Education Toolkit for Orphans & Vulnerable Children in India
This resource ‘Life Skills Education Toolkit for Orphans & Vulnerable Children in India’ is funded by the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief through the U. S. Agency for International Development (USAID). This Life Skills Education (LSE) Toolkit takes a child participatory approach and deals with the “whole child” – feelings, beliefs, development needs –… [Read More]
A Free Training Guide on ‘Menstrual Hygiene Matters’
This ‘Menstrual hygiene matters’ training guide was produced by WaterAid and jointly funded by the Sanitation and Hygiene Applied Research for Equity (SHARE). ‘Menstrual hygiene matters’ is an essential resource for improving menstrual hygiene for women and girls in lower and middle-income countries. To manage menstruation hygienically and with dignity, it is essential that women… [Read More]
Free Advocacy Toolkit: Advocating for the National Strategy for the Development of Statistics
PARIS21 has produced a Country-level Advocacy Toolkit, which aims to help national statistical system managers and statisticians in developing countries with their own advocacy work and to demonstrate the advantages of planning advocacy systematically. It gathers, in a single package, advocacy methodology, tools, tips and messages. The Toolkit deals with statistical advocacy at the country… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for Engaging People in Conservation
This resource was developed by Audubon, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Environmental Education and Training Partnership (EETAP), TogetherGreen, North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE), and many other colleagues, and is designed to better engage people to achieve more sustainable conservation results. Why engage stakeholders? Although there is no universally effective way to incorporate stakeholders,… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for the Workplace – HIV/AIDS Behaviour Change Communication
To address the objective of reducing HIV/AIDS risk behaviours among workers, the ILO has collaborated closely with Family Health International to build upon FHI’s expertise and experience to develop a Toolkit on behaviour change communication adapted to the dynamics of the workplace. Behaviour change communication (BCC) is an interactive process that helps to understand the… [Read More]
A Free Programming Handbook on Youth, Peace and Security
Youth, Peace and Security: A Programming Handbook, developed by the United Nations with the generous support of the Folke Bernadotte Academy – the Swedish Agency for Peace, Security and Development – seeks to contribute to the operational readiness and capacity of United Nations practitioners to implement the youth, peace and security (YPS) agenda. The handbook… [Read More]
A Free Take Action Toolkit
The ITF End Violence against Women Transport Workers ‘Take Action Toolkit’ for affiliates wanting to expand or kick-start their action on ending violence against women transport workers. This toolkit is aimed at those running workshops and campaigns, those who are involved in collective bargaining, those who are seeking education on the issue and those who… [Read More]
Free Asia Foundation’s Beyond the Toolkit: Supporting Peace Processes in Asia
In recent years there have been growing calls for new approaches to supporting peace in post-conflict contexts, as current peacebuilding models do not accurately reflect what we know about the nature of conflict, how it ends, and how peace processes are sustained and peace consolidated. To address these issues, The Asia Foundation has launched Beyond… [Read More]
A Free Gender Training Toolkit
World Vision’s Gender Training Toolkit is a comprehensive response to the global challenge of implementing a GAD focus in World Vision’s work. The Toolkit reflects World Vision’s ethos, core values and policy. After decades of intentional work and effort amongst the organisation’s leadership and staff,women and men in World Vision ADPs (Area Development Programmes) are… [Read More]
A Free Gender Equality in Academia and Research Toolkit
The scope of a gender equality plan may strongly vary, depending on the type of organisation, the institutional context in which it is implemented, the disciplines addressed or the type of gender biases and inequalities identified as part of the diagnosis. Objectives Three objectives underpin the European Commission’s strategy on gender equality in research and… [Read More]
Free COMED Toolkit on Communication for Education and Development
The Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) is a forum for policy dialogue which aims at bringing African Ministers of Education and their development partners from cooperating agencies to acquire a shared understanding of the stakes and challenges of education in Africa, which would lead to a concerted vision on the policies… [Read More]
A Free Transitioning of Care & Other Services for Adolescents Living with HIV Toolkit
This toolkit is designed to support healthcare and community care providers, families, caregivers, and the adolescents themselves with the transition of care, support and transition services from pediatric to adult care. A trainer’s manual for health care providers is also included. Increasing numbers of perinatally infected children are surviving to adolescence and adulthood. This group… [Read More]
