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]
HIV and AIDS Resources
A list of free guides, how-to tools and other resources on HIV and AIDS for NGOs and development professionals.
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 Toolkit for Trainers: HIV/AIDS in the News – Journalists as Catalysts
This toolkit is a collection of participatory exercises for use in sensitization of media persons involved in HIV/AIDS coverage. It can also be integrated with the existing curriculum of schools of journalism and mass communication. The toolkit has been developed keeping in view the needs of journalists working in remote areas having limited access to… [Read More]
A Free Life Skills Education Toolkit for Orphans & Vulnerable Children in India
This resource ‘Life Skills Education Toolkit for Orphans & Vulnerable Children in India’ is funded by the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief through the U. S. Agency for International Development (USAID). This Life Skills Education (LSE) Toolkit takes a child participatory approach and deals with the “whole child” – feelings, beliefs, development needs –… [Read More]
A Free Stakeholder Engagement Toolkit for HIV Prevention Trials
The Stakeholder Engagement Toolkit for HIV Prevention Trials is a guide to engaging a wide range of key stakeholders — people living with HIV, communities, policymakers, advocates, governments, religious and cultural leaders, funders, international agencies and regulatory bodies — at every stage of a clinical trial from planning to implementation and sharing results. Based on… [Read More]
A Free Gender Assessment Tool for National HIV and TB Responses
The UNAIDS HIV Gender Assessment tool was developed recognizing the need for more systematic data collection on gender equality and HIV, as revealed by the mid-term review of the UNAIDS Agenda for Accelerated Country Action for Women, Girls, Gender Equality and HIV 2010– 2014 (hereinafter, the UNAIDS Agenda for Women and Girls), the UNAIDS Secretariat… [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 Practical Guide: Crowdsourcing in Health and Health Research
This report was developed by Social Entrepreneurship to Spur Health (SESH) and the Social Innovation in Health Initiative (SIHI). The development of this guide was supported by TDR, the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases. The report was also supported by the following grants: National Key Research and Development Program, National Institutes… [Read More]
A Free HIV New Product Introduction Guide
The HIV New Product Introduction Guide provides a framework and explanation of key approaches, available tools and best practices for new product introduction, and supplements the online HIV New Product Introduction Toolkit, which features tools that can be leveraged when introducing a new product in-country. The guide and toolkit contain a wide range of information,… [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 Transitioning of Care & Other Services for Adolescents Living with HIV Toolkit
This toolkit is designed to support healthcare and community care providers, families, caregivers, and the adolescents themselves with the transition of care, support and transition services from pediatric to adult care. A trainer’s manual for health care providers is also included. Increasing numbers of perinatally infected children are surviving to adolescence and adulthood. This group… [Read More]
A Free Community Case Management Toolkit
This toolkit has been developed building on the rich experience of existing programmes and guidelines. The development of these guidelines entailed a literature review to understand the gaps and needs and a rapid assessment of existing tools, job aids and guidelines by each NO planning to implement CCM or iCCM. The toolkit is a how-to… [Read More]
A Free Activist Toolkit on Differentiated Service Delivery
The What Works for Me: Activist Toolkit on Differentiated Service Delivery was developed with the aim of strengthening community engagement and demand for recipient–centred models of care, specifically differentiated antiretroviral therapy (ART) delivery. The International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC) and the AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (ARASA) partnered to produce this toolkit, which… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for Transition of Care and other Services for Adolescents Living with HIV
This Toolkit is a guide that assists both HCPs and CCPs to tailor a package of services for ALHIV. HCPs and CCPs are the primary users of the Toolkit, and they should use the Toolkit and distribute content/tools as appropriate to the adolescent and the family/caregiver. The Toolkit Provides: A framework to promote self-care: The… [Read More]
A Free Private Health Policy Toolkit for Africa
“Private Health Policy Toolkit for Africa” gathers resources and tools about engaging the private health sector that were previously unavailable in one location. It outlines opportunities for developing, engaging, and supporting a well-managed and effectively regulated private sector to improve the region’s health. The toolkit provides a wealth of information on why the private sector… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit on HIV and AIDS in Places of Detention
This toolkit on HIV and AIDS in prisons aims to provide information and guidance primarily to individuals and institutions with responsibilities for prisons and prisoners, and to people who work in and with prisons. In addition, it will assist everyone who has anything to do with prisons. It is written primarily for use in low-… [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 on Mainstreaming Disability
This handbook aims to give practical guidance to support development organisations to mainstream disability into their work. It is primarily intended for VSO programmes, but could be useful to other development actors interested in mainstreaming disability, such as NGOs, government and donors. The handbook is drawn from the experience of VSO DREAM-IT (Disability Rights, Empowerment,… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit on National Coalition of AntiViolence Programs
For twenty years, the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP) has released reports on the pervasive and sometimes deadly intimate partner violence perpetrated against and within LGBTQ and HIV affected communities, in an effort to better identify our communities’ needs. Year after year, these reports demonstrate that IPV affects the LGBTQ community in unique and… [Read More]
Free Policy Advocacy Toolkit: How to Influence Public Policy for Social Justice and Gender Equality in Africa
This policy advocacy toolkit was developed to assist African civil society organisations to effectively contribute to the development and implementation of public policy for social justice and gender equality or to challenge proposed laws and policies that undermine gender equality and human rights. This toolkit provides definitions of advocacy and policy advocacy; identifies key players… [Read More]
