The Toolkit was developed to assist the South African corporate sector to engage more effectively with HIV/AIDS affected children, following Save the Children’s survey with large South African companies of current practice in addressing the issues facing children affected by HIV/AIDS. It is recognised that the practice and examples are drawn mainly from the experience… [Read More]
Employment, Labor and Livelihood Resources
A list of free guides, how-to tools and other resources on Employment, Labor and Livelihood for NGOs and development professionals.
A Free Toolkit to Address Child Labour in the Agricultural Sector in Egypt
This toolkit has been developed by Save the Children and builds on approaches to address child labour developed by Save the Children in Bangladesh. Its development was informed by an initial assessment that examined the nature and extent of child labour in the agricultural sector. The overall objective of this toolkit is to improve conditions… [Read More]
A Free Resource Guide for Trade Unions and A Call Against Child Labour and for Education for All
This manual is designed as a resource guide for trade unions. Its purpose is to act as a general introduction to the reality of child labour and to explain why education is such a key strategy in tackling child labour. It provides an overview of the key international standards and the main commitments endorsed by… [Read More]
A Free WE GO! Toolkit
It is a training toolkit to build or improve the practitioners’ know-how and skills for supporting women in an effort to increase their social and economic empowerment with the goal of becoming self-sufficient in order to live a life free from intimate partner violence. The toolkit provides methodologies and tools that can be adopted or… [Read More]
A Free Digital Skills Toolkit
The Digital Skill toolkit provides stakeholders with guidance on developing a digital skills strategy. It is intended for policymakers, along with partners in the private sector, non-governmental organizations, and academia. Its overarching aim is to facilitate the development of a comprehensive digital skills strategy at country level. It is also possible to use this guide… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for Women’s Economic Empowerment for Anti-Violence Centres’ Operators
This resource kit is a training toolkit to build or improve the practitioners’ know-how and skills for supporting women in an effort to increase their social and economic empowerment with the goal of becoming self-sufficient in order to live a life free from intimate partner violence. The toolkit provides methodologies and tools that can be… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit to Support Youth at Risk in Middle Income Countries
The World Bank has produced this “Supporting Youth at Risk: A Policy Toolkit for Middle Income Countries” in response to a growing demand from the government clients and partners for advice on how to create and implement effective policies for at-risk youth. Areas The following five key risk areas for young people around the world:… [Read More]
A Free ASEAN Handbook for Women’s Rights Activists
To facilitate a genuinely ‘people-centred’ ASEAN, it is imperative that civil society understand ASEAN and its vast work. This requires civil society groups to be more knowledgeable about ASEAN and to have the capacity and resources to engage with and influence ASEAN and its various bodies. Similarly, it is critical that women’s voices from ASEAN… [Read More]
A Free Gender Equality in Labour Migration Law, Policy and Management (GEM) Toolkit
The Gender equality in labour migration laws, policy and management GEM Toolkits is a set of nine practical tools, developed by the International Labour Organization (ILO) to facilitate the implementation of gender mainstreaming strategies in labour migration and related employment, social protection, and equality laws, policies, programmes, projects, as well as in day-to-day labour migration… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit on Poverty Reduction through Tourism in Rural Areas
A toolkit on poverty reduction through tourism has been produced. It aims at assisting developing and least developed countries to create a sustainable tourism industry and businesses based on decent employment. It is oriented towards SMEs and local communities in rural areas and includes case studies, training sessions and best practices. The toolkit illustrates the… [Read More]
Free Employment Toolkit “Making the Business Case: Getting Jobs for People with Developmental Disabilities”
The “Making the Business Case” Toolkit is designed to help people with disabilities get jobs. This Toolkit demonstrates ways to better connect with businesses and potential employers to discuss the benefits of hiring people with disabilities. The Toolkit serves as a “how to” guide for communicating using a business-focused approach to increase job placements. As… [Read More]
A Free Good Practices Guide and Training Package: Unemployment Protection
This unemployment protection guide covers knowledge, expertise and instruments that were developed through technical assistance to ASEAN countries provided by the ILO/Japan Project, Promoting and Building Social Protection in Asia. It can be used also as a toolkit by policy-makers to conduct feasibility studies for the design of unemployment benefits schemes for both informal and… [Read More]
A Free Handbook for Managers on Facilitating Children’s Participation in Actions to Address Child Labour: Learning to Work Together
The conviction underlying Learning to Work Together is that the main obstacles to children’s participation are adult fears and uncertainties when confronted with the challenge to fulfill this right. In all societies, and certainly in Asia, traditional views of children are that they are dependent on adults and lack competence in making decisions. Thus the… [Read More]
A Free Handbook on Child-led Organisation and Advocacy on Child Labour: From Child Labour to Children in Charge
“From child labour to children in charge” is a handbook that provides theoretical and practical knowledge on child-led organisations and advocacy on child labour and is based on five years of field experience in Bangladesh. The document is published by Save the Children Sweden-Denmark in Bangladesh in close collaboration with INCIDIN Bangladesh, SEEP, BITA, Nari… [Read More]
A Free Handbook on Integration for Policy-Makers and Practitioners
The Handbook on Integration contains ‘lessons learned’ and good practices drawn from the experience of policy-makers and practitioners across Europe. By collecting and presenting concrete examples from different areas of immigrant integration, the Handbook feeds into a larger policy process in the field of integration in the European Union (EU), notably the development of the… [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 on Building Bridges Peace Education and Dialogue for Conflict resolution
This toolkit was developed during the Building Bridges project, a two-year-long project supported by Erasmus+, thanks to the hard work of youth workers from eight different organizations from Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America. The purpose of this toolkit is to give youth workers tools to implement their own non-formal education activities on Peace, Inclusion,… [Read More]
A Free Inter-Agency Toolkit: Supporting the Protection Needs of Child Labourers in Emergencies
This toolkit has been developed through strong inter-agency collaboration at the global level in support of the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, 2012 (CPMS), Minimum Standard 12 Child Labour. Approaching child labour in humanitarian contexts differs significantly from longer-term child labour programming. As such this toolkit focuses on providing guidance in-line with… [Read More]
A Free Handbook on Poverty and Social Analysis
The Handbook on Poverty and Social Analysis: A Working Document is designed to be a valuable resource to help staff of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), government officers, consultants, project sponsors/borrowers, and other stakeholders to effectively address the poverty and social dimensions of ADB’s operations. Ultimately, the handbook aims to contribute to positive development outcomes… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit on Reducing Poverty through Employment
This Toolkit provides a range of good practices, case examples, and resources to guide companies on how to get started or how to enhance existing efforts to employ, empower, and improve the advancement prospects of those living in poverty. This Toolkit, developed through literature review and drawing on the extensive knowledge and good practices of global GISC member… [Read More]
