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]
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 Information Technology Security Handbook
Information Technology Security Handbook is a practical guide to understanding and implementing IT security in your home or business environment. It has been written primarily for readers in developing countries, although the Handbook provides best practices valid in any situation. In addition to summarizing current physical and electronic threats to IT security, the Handbook also… [Read More]
A Free Handbook: Mobile Money Policy and Regulatory
Mobile money is helping to make the financial services industry more efficient and inclusive. This has opened access to a broad range of essential financial services for millions of unserved and underserved people. In the Handbook, we explore regulatory challenges that have faced industry since its inception, and recommend approaches key stakeholders can take towards… [Read More]
A Free Risk Management Toolkit
Risk Management Toolkit is intended to contribute to an increased understanding of the connection between counterterrorism measures and humanitarian action and highlight steps that humanitarian organisations can take and are taking to address some of the main challenges and risks associated with these measures. The starting point is that principled humanitarian actors should seek to… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit: Scaling Up HIV-Related Legal Services
The purpose of the toolkit is to provide a practical resource to help to improve the quality and impact of HIV-related legal services and to expand their availability. The toolkit provides guidance on factors to be taken into account when designing and scaling up an HIV-related legal services programme. It also provides guidance about different… [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 Guide to Corporate Governance Practices in the European Union
This guide to Corporate Governance practices in the European Union, offers an overview of the changes taking place across the EU’s corporate governance landscape. It provides a focused examination of specific regulations and practices as well as a frank assessment of the challenges that remain. The value of this publication is that it examines the… [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 Toolkit of Measures for Managing Environmental Externalities in Urban Areas
The purpose of this toolkit is to provide an overview of a selected sample of generic policy measures and instruments that specifically address the challenges raised by ‘greening’ urban development. It focuses on instruments that may be able to help leverage finance (from private sector, national government and donors)to advance the ‘brown agenda’1 and support… [Read More]
Download this Free Handbook on Water Allocation in a Transboundary Context
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A Free Handbook for NGOs: Advancing Duty of Care and Healthy Workplaces
This Global Centre for Healthy Workplaces and Cigna Foundation Handbook for Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) was developed with the assistance of NGOs, such as the CHS Alliance, and experts in the field, with the aim of providing a practical guide NGOs can use to advance the Duty of Care concept within their organisations and create healthy… [Read More]
A Free Handbook on Capacity Development Needs Diagnostics for Renewable Energy (CADRE)
The Capacity Development Needs Diagnostics for Renewable Energy (CaDRE), introduced in this Handbook, helps policy makers, organisations and capacity development/renewable energy practitioners shape an environment conducive to the development of renewable energy. CaDRE is designed as a country-driven, comprehensive approach to analysing the capacity already in place, predicting future capacity needs, identifying capacity gaps and… [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]
Save and Grow: A Free Policymaker’s Guide to the Sustainable Intensification of Smallholder Crop Production
Save and Grow addresses the crop production dimension of sustainable food management. In essence, it calls for “greening” the Green Revolution through an ecosystem approach that draws on nature’s contributions to crop growth, such as soil organic matter, water flow regulation, pollination and bio-control of insect pests and diseases. This guide offers a rich toolkit… [Read More]
Free Guidelines for Integrating HIV and Gender-Related Issues into Environmental Assessment
The Guidelines for Integrating HIV and Gender-Related Issues into Environmental Assessment in Eastern and Southern Africa call for governments to recognize HIV risks, and to take the necessary steps to mitigate these risks in the development of infrastructure and execution of large capital projects. Infrastructure development is an important driver of employment and economic growth… [Read More]
A Free Healthy Built Environment (HBE) Linkages Toolkit
The HBE Linkages Toolkit describes how population health is influenced by the design of our neighbourhoods, housing, transportation systems, natural environments, and food systems. The purpose of this Toolkit is to generate conversation and adaptation by outlining a rationale for “why” the built environment is important for health. It brings together research based key messages… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit on Themis Network Action
The Themis Network Action Toolkit was compiled drawing on the capacity development activities carried out during the implementation of the Themis project. The content is based on the materials used during the three Themis regional training programmes delivered to the beneficiary countries by the REC. The toolkit is designed to give a basic understanding of… [Read More]
The Lean & Environment Free Toolkit for Practitioner
The Lean and Environment Toolkit offers practical strategies and techniques to Lean implementers about how to improve Lean results—waste elimination, quality enhancement, and delivery of value to customers—while achieving environmental performance goals. The toolkit also provides tools to help your organization get better environmental performance from Lean efforts on the shop floor. The EPA’s intent… [Read More]
Free Child Rights Education Toolkit: Rooting Child Rights in Early Childhood Education, Primary and Secondary Schools
UNICEF has developed a child rights’ education toolkit on Rooting Child Rights in Early Childhood Education, Primary and Secondary Schools. This Toolkit focuses on child rights education in the formal learning environment (early childhood education settings, primary and secondary schools), it is hoped that it will also be useful for those working to promote child… [Read More]
Download A Free European Green Capital Award – Human Scale Toolkit
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