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]
Food and Nutrition Resources
A list of free guides, how-to tools and other resources on Food and Nutrition for NGOs and development professionals.
The Free Food Safety Toolkit
The IFC Food Safety Toolkit is designed to enable companies in developing markets reduce a key risk in growing a sustainable food business: meeting the ever-increasing demands, needs, expectations and trust of customers, wholesalers, retailers, government food safety regulators, and ultimately, consumers. The Toolkit was developed by IFC with food industry help and expertise. It… [Read More]
A Free The Talking Toolkit: How Smallholding Farmers and Local Governments can Together Adapt to Climate Change
World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) have created this toolkit to help everyone better understand the exposure of farmers to climate change and variability, what impact it might have on them and food production, and how they can adapt. This collection of participatory exercises, which they call ‘tools’, are designed for those who facilitate discussions with farmers:… [Read More]
A Free Guide to Nutrition-Sensitive Value Chains
This guide provides validated guidance for design of nutrition-sensitive value chain (NSVC) projects for smallholder farmers. The guide comprises two volumes: Volume I provides step-by step guidance for project design, while its companion Volume II provides practical resources, to be used at each step of the design process, including terms of reference, interview guides, tools… [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]
A Free Toolkit on Reducing Rural Women’s Domestic Workload through Labour-saving Technologies and Practices
The focus of the toolkit on labour-saving methods to reduce the domestic, rather than the productive, workload is to refocus attention on this relatively hidden but persistent hindrance to IFAD’s drive for rural transformation. Moreover, without redressing the disproportionate burden of domestic work on women, progress towards the global goals to end poverty, hunger, malnutrition,… [Read More]
A Free Guide to Climate Change Adaptation in Cities
Cities—especially in developing countries—are on the front lines of climate change impacts. These impacts range from an increase in extreme weather events and flooding to increased air temperatures and public health concerns. Climate change affects both human well-being and the economy, posing threats to the livelihoods and assets of people living in cities. Most vulnerable… [Read More]
A Free Handbook for the Assessment of Capacities at the Human and Animal Interface
Human and animal health systems communicating and collaborating together in synergy and complementarity has been largely advocated by the OIE and WHO. The two organisations have taken this principle on board and work together to advocate for their Member Countries to take advantage of existing frameworks and benefit from coordinated actions to prevent the spread… [Read More]
A Free Pacific Gender and Climate Change Toolkit
The Pacific Gender and Climate Change toolkit is designed to support climate change practitioners in the Pacific islands region to integrate gender into their programmes and projects. It is aimed at climate change professionals working in national governments, non-governmental organizations, regional and international organizations who are involved in managing and implementing climate change programmes. This… [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]
A Free Toolkit for Supporting Smallholder Seed Systems
Agriculture begins with seed. Without seed, there can be no crops and no food production. When harvests fail or seed stocks are lost, seed insecurity ensues, which can reduce food security and livelihoods. In most smallholder farming systems farmers save seed from the previous harvest to plant in the next season. They select seed from… [Read More]
A Free Publication on Nutrition-Sensitive Value Chains
This publication has been produced to fill a key knowledge gap in the emerging field of value chains for nutrition by providing guidance on how to design nutrition-sensitive value chain (NSVC) projects, with a particular focus on smallholder producers. This guide provides validated step-by-step guidance for NSVC project design, relevant not only for IFAD but… [Read More]
A Free Resilience Building Guide
This guidance document is meant to support practitioners working in disaster prone contexts to develop and implement more effective integrated resilience programming. It promotes programming that cuts across different fields of work like rights awareness, food security, emergency preparedness, livelihoods, education, health etc. whilst at the same time encouraging us to work simultaneously at the… [Read More]
A Free Action Toolkit on Tax Power Campaign Reflection
When funds are missing for quality public services, it’s communities living in poverty, particularly women and girls, that suffer the most, making the world more unequal. Around the world, millions of girls are missing out school. Women are more at risk of violence in their cities from poor public transport and lighting. And women are… [Read More]
A free Local Regulation of Agriculture Toolkit
The New Hampshire Coalition for Sustaining Agriculture is pleased to present the Local Regulation of Agriculture Toolkit, developed with grant funds provided by Farm Credit East Northeast AgEnhancement. They have created the Toolkit for farmers and municipal decision makers to guide development of local farm friendly regulatory environments in which agricultural enterprises can operate successfully,… [Read More]
A free Toolkit for Transforming Food and Agriculture to Achieve the SDGs
Food and agriculture stand today at a crossroads. Looking back, major improvements in agricultural productivity have been recorded over recent decades to satisfy the food demand of a growing global population. But progress has often come with social and environmental costs, including water scarcity, soil degradation, ecosystem stress, biodiversity loss, decreasing fish stocks and forest… [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]
EU Free Guide on Undernutrition and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
These documents call on the EU to do more to fully integrate WASH into all of their development programmes and strategies, including health, gender and nutrition. Food and nutrition security, health and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) are intrinsically related and have to be recognised as preconditions for and outcomes of sustainable development. With 50%… [Read More]
A Free Advocacy Guide for Small and Diaspora NGOs
Understanding advocacy and how to use advocacy approaches and tools can help organisation’s to increase their impact. However often the technical language that surrounds advocacy, and concerns about risk, can make it seem more difficult and complicated than it really is. As part of the Common Ground Initiative Peer Learning Programme, INTRAC produced this toolkit… [Read More]
Free Gender and Inclusion Toolbox: Participatory Research in Climate Change and Agriculture
This toolbox was guided by the valuable feedback and recommendations of key practitioners, scientists and subject experts at Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), the CGIAR and many local development partners. They also benefited greatly from the many workshops, co-design events,… [Read More]
