This guidebook, and associated tools, is designed to help agricultural policy practitioners improve the effectiveness of their engagement with policy systems in developing countries. It provides practitioners with conceptual tools and practical strategies designed to improve the quality of policy practitioners’ efforts to influence complex agricultural policy systems. Utilizing this guidebook and associated tools will… [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.
A Free Gender Toolkit: Integrating Gender in Programming for Every Child in South Asia
This toolkit has been prepared for UNICEF professionals at all levels in the South Asia region, working on gender interventions at national and subnational levels including gender focal points and specialists, non-gender specialists, management, sector staff and planning, monitoring and evaluation (PME) teams. It may also be a useful resource for government stakeholders working closely… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit on Livelihoods and Conflict for Intervention
This toolkit is part of a series that explores how development assistance can address key risk factors associated with conflict. It shows how violent conflict can affect individual and community access to essential resources and how an approach that focuses on strengthening that access can help people survive and recover from conflict. Livelihoods, or individuals’… [Read More]
A Free Advocacy Toolkit for Africa
One third of cancer deaths are due to preventable causes such as viral infection, poor nutrition and widespread tobacco use. Another third of cases are treatable if detected early but governments and institutions face a wide range of serious health problems, and cancer is often not a priority in limited resource settings. Cancer control in… [Read More]
A Free Assessment Toolkit: Assessing Gender-Sensitive Implementation and Country-Level Monitoring of the Tenure Governance
ActionAid International has been working over the last few years with women and rural communities to challenge commercialization of land, which leads to loss of their rights to and control over land and other resources. The Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of tenure of land, forest and Fisheries – VGGTs, together with the AU… [Read More]
A Free Economics of Local Food Systems Toolkit
As consumers across the Nation express a growing interest in a closer connection to their food producers—whether through access to more localized markets and/or shorter supply chains— cities and regions have begun to regard the expansion of local food marketing activities as a critical component of their economic development strategies. Rising demand for locally produced,… [Read More]
A Free Handbook on Safe Access to Firewood and alternative Energy (SAFE)
This handbook provides find information about SAFE along 7 phases of the project cycle for design and implementation. This is a comprehensive set of resources and tools meant to provide guidance on fuel-efficient programming for all WFP staff and partners striving – at community, national and international levels – to make safe access to cooking… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for African Agribusiness Development Programme
As part of its mandate, UNDP’s African Facility for Inclusive Markets (AFIM), has developed an African Agribusiness Supplier Development Programme (AASDP) in support of the AU and CAADP’s agriculture transformation and food security agenda. The objectives of the agricultural supplier development programme (ASDP) are three-fold: first, to improve the quantity and quality supply of agricultural… [Read More]
A Free Guide on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and Nutrition in Emergencies
This guide represents core activities along the continuum of care (life-cycle approach) for reproductive health issues, pregnancy, childbirth, maternal and newborn health and child health, which will save lives. WV resources and models, along with interagency protocols and guidelines, are referenced to support the implementation of the key technical actions. The emergency guide aims to… [Read More]
A Free Food Security Program Lifecycle Toolkit
The level of programming has progressively become more complex and technically advanced over time for USAID Title II-funded food security programming. This toolkit helps address some of the key questions related to the programming areas of design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. Objectives Produce a Food Security Program Life Cycle Toolkit; Conduct training of trainers events… [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]
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]
