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 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 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 European Green Capital Award – Human Scale Toolkit
This toolkit showcases examples from European Green Capital Network members that have used sustainable mobility, green spaces, participation tools, co-housing initiatives and more to develop people-centred cities – places of advanced social progress, which often combine urban density with abundant public spaces and nature-rich areas. The tool presents efficient strategies and proven solutions to help… [Read More]
Free Guide on how to integrate housing, land and property issues in key planning processes
This free download publication offers guidance on notes on how to integrate housing, land and property issues in key planning processes. Housing, land and property (HLP) issues arise in most crisis situations, in conflict, as well as natural disasters. This is especially the case when a crisis is accompanied by significant displacement or when it… [Read More]
Climate Change and Health: A Free Tool to Estimate Health and Adaptation Costs
Climate change entails a wide variety of public health risks. Authorities and other stakeholders thus need to understand current and projected impacts of climate change and their implications for health in order to prepare and implement a variety of responses to ensure an optimal level of adaptation. Examples of such responses include early warning systems,… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit on Shifting the Paradigm: Primary Prevention of Sexual Violence
The American College Health Association developed this toolkit — Shifting the Paradigm: Primary Prevention of Sexual Violence — to provide facts, ideas, strategies, conversation starters, and resources to everyone on campus who cares about the prevention of sexual violence. While there is a rich volume of tools, knowledge, and resources for intervention after sexual violence,… [Read More]
A Free Handbook for Activists: Rights to Water and Sanitation
Rights to Water and Sanitation; A Handbook for Activists Written for community groups, human rights NGOs, rights-based development practitioners and aid workers to adopt or improve their human rights-based approachto advocacy on water and sanitation. It provides innovative and practical suggestions for promoting and protecting the rights to water and sanitation. This publication was produced… [Read More]
Women and Young Persons with Disabilities: Free Guidelines for Providing Rights-Based and Gender-Responsive Services
Women and Young Persons with Disabilities: Guidelines for Providing Rights-Based and Gender-Responsive Services to Address Gender-Based Violence and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights aims to provide practical and concrete guidelines for making GBV and SRHR services more inclusive of and accessible to women and young persons with disabilities and for targeting interventions to meet… [Read More]
A Free Handbook for the Protection of Internally Displaced Persons
Internally displaced persons, or “IDPs,” are part of the broader civilian population that needs protection and assistance because of conflict and human rights abuses or due to natural disasters. The focus on IDPs in this Handbook is not intended to encourage preferential treatment of IDPs to the exclusion of other populations at risk but, rather,… [Read More]
A Free Child Exploitation Disruption Toolkit
The toolkit is primarily aimed at frontline staff, including law enforcement, social care, education, housing and the voluntary sector, working to safeguard children and young people under the age of 18 from sexual and criminal exploitation. Additionally, it is intended to help all safeguarding partners to understand and access existing legislative opportunities at their disposal… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for Pediatricians to Address Food Insecurity
FRAC and AAP gratefully acknowledge the Anthem Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Anthem, Inc., for support of their work to help medical providers screen and intervene to address food insecurity. Explore FRAC and the American Academy of Pediatrics’ latest toolkit to learn more about how pediatricians can play a critical role in addressing food insecurity…. [Read More]
A Free Community-Based Practitioner’s Guide: Documenting Citizenship and Other Forms of Legal Identity
This guide was developed in Response to the Growing Recognition of the opportunity for community-based justice actors to assist individuals and communities suffering from a lack of documentation of citizenship or other forms of proof of legal identity. This guide is the result of a series of consultations, discussions on addressing statelessness, and lack of… [Read More]
A Free Youth Employment Toolkit
This toolkit is designed for shelters, housing providers, youth-serving agencies and other organizations concerned about homeless and at-risk youth in Canada. It is outlines some ideas for providing a youth employment project for at-risk youth and is designed to create a model that is flexible and adaptable. The case studies and resource materials are based… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit on Global Education
Education toolkit is a free online educational resource that provides knowledge and practical educational tools on housing, land rights, and sustainable urban development. The Global Education Toolkit was created as part of the Build Solid Ground Project, which is funded by a European Union grant under the Development Education and Awareness Raising program. 14 project… [Read More]
Poverty in India | Wikipedia audio article
Poverty is a significant issue in India, despite being one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, clocked at a growth rate of 711% in 2015, and a sizable consumer economy The World Bank reviewed and proposed revisions on May 2014 to its poverty calculation methodology and purchasing power parity basis for measuring poverty worldwide… [Read More]
Civil Society | Yascha Mounk: How do we save democracy? | March 29, 2018.
[music] Yascha Mounk: But what we've seen over the last 20, 25 years is that nationalism is not going away as a political force And so I think it's a half-domesticated animal If you leave it to its own devices, the worst kinds of people are gonna come in In the United States, they tend… [Read More]
Poverty | Wikipedia audio article
Poverty is the scarcity or the lack of a certain (variant) amount of material possessions or money Poverty is a multifaceted concept, which may include social, economic, and political elements Absolute poverty, extreme poverty, or destitution refers to the complete lack of the means necessary to meet basic personal needs such as food, clothing and… [Read More]
Nigerian Poverty Situation
did you know Nigeria is Africa's most populous country and the seventh most populous country in the world with an estimated population of above 190 million one in every five African is a Nigerian did you know fewer than one hundred and twelve million Nigerians now live below poverty levels as global Poor hits 1… [Read More]
Nonprofit Impact Strategy Course Video
Over the past couple of decades, we have learned so much about how to improve people's lives For example, we've learned that access to quality early childhood education can dramatically improve people's life chances And that teaching students social, emotional, and academic skills can prepare them effectively for life both inside and outside the classroom… [Read More]
