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]
Environment and Conservation Resources
A list of free guides, how-to tools and other resources on Environment and Conservation for NGOs and development professionals.
A Free Agrobiodiversity Handbook
This guide does not aim to be a comprehensive manual on the use and importance of biodiversity in the farmscape. Rather, it is an attempt to provide a first step in encouraging further research and a systematic approach into a field of research that concerns the livelihood of most people in Lao as well as… [Read More]
A Free Handbook for Anyone Working with the Public on Conservation: Enabling Ecoaction
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]
A Free Toolkit for Programming on Minerals and Conflict
This toolkit for development agency practitioners on the management of mineral wealth and its links to conflict is part of a series commissioned by USAID from leading environment and security practitioners, exploring how development assistance can address key natural resource-related risk factors. Other papers in this series focus on land use conflicts, on water and… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for Conservation and Development Practitioners on Migration and Conservation
The Migration and Conservation Toolkit was developed to help conservation practitioners assess the impacts of human migration on critical ecosystems. It draws on extensive research in three critical ecosystems in the Great Lakes region of Africa with generous funding from the MacArthur Foundation. Integrating existing and potential migration concerns into conservation interventions is increasingly important… [Read More]
Energy and Gender for Sustainable Development: Free Toolkit for Practitioners
This toolkit and resource guide has been produced jointly by the Sustainable Energy Programme of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and ENERGIA, the International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy. It is designed to help planners and practitioners integrate gender and energy considerations into development programmes, including those focusing on energy improvements as well… [Read More]
A Free WWF Guide to Conservation Finance: Sustainable Financing for the Planet
The Guide to Conservation Finance provides an overview of conservation financing mechanisms that have been implemented throughout the world. The Guide to Conservation Finance provides an overview of conservation financing mechanisms that have been implemented throughout the world. The guide informs field practitioners about which of the available financing mechanisms they could apply to achieve… [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]
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 Guide for Practitioners: Community Environment Action Planning
The guide has been designed for practitioners who are involved in environmental planning at community level and who want to do things better. It provides a quick and hands-on toolkit that is easy to use and which can help introduce simple but effective tools for participation within institutions that aim to become more accountable. Some… [Read More]
Measuring Efforts to Combat Wildlife Crime: A Free Toolkit for Improving Action and Accountability
Developed for any organization concerned with poaching and illegal wildlife trade, this CWC toolkit recommends indicators for monitoring progress and effectiveness of ten major strategic approaches for combating wildlife crime. A COMPLETE TOOLKIT FOR IMPROVING ACTION AND ACCOUNTABILITY USAID’s resources for measuring efforts to combat wildlife crime include three related companion pieces. This toolkit is… [Read More]
A Free Community Conservation Resilience Initiative Toolkit
A CCRI methodology has been developed, which is a simple guiding framework that can be adapted to the reality of a country/community in order to develop advocacy tools. The aim of the Community Conservation Resilience Initiative (CCRI) is to contribute to the implementation of the CBD’s 20112020 Strategic Plan and Aichi Targets by providing policy… [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 Toolkit for Conservation and Development Practitioners
The Migration and Conservation Toolkit was developed to help conservation practitioners assess the impacts of human migration on critical ecosystems. It draws on extensive research in three critical ecosystems in the Great Lakes region of Africa with generous funding from the MacArthur Foundation. The Migration and Conservation Toolkit aims to help conservation practitioners design and… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for African NGOs: Provoking Change
This toolkit was produced by FERN at the request of a network of environmental NGOs in West Africa: the Green Actors of West Africa (GAWA). This Advocacy Toolkit is for local and national NGOs, but specifically for those based in West Africa, as the case studies and background information are focused on this region. The… [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 Handbook for Engagement: Strengthening Civil Society’s Role in Development
The Feed the Future civil society engagement handbook outlines engagement practices for promoting local ownership and engaging civil society in an effort to translate aid effectiveness principles into practical mechanisms to advance development that is more participatory, inclusive, transparent, accountable and sustainable. These engagement practices, and the country examples provided, are intended to support Feed… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit on Poverty Targeting, Gender Equality and Empowerment
Understanding people’s needs and priorities, their own perceptions of poverty, and placing them in the driver’s seat of the change process is the starting point for designing and implementing development interventions that are accessible and beneficial to both women and men, contributing to their own transformative processes. This toolkit explains how to identify and address… [Read More]
COMPASS Training Courses: A Free Handbook for Organisers
Compass National and Regional Training Courses on Human Rights Education are core activities in the programme of the Council of Europe’s Youth Department, as a direct contribution to the organisation’s mission of promoting and protecting human rights. These courses also support the implementation of the Council of Europe Charter on Education for Democratic Citizenship and… [Read More]
