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]
Humanitarian and Disaster Relief Resources
A list of free guides, how-to tools and other resources on Humanitarian and Disaster Relief for NGOs and development professionals.
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 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 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 OCHA Gender Toolkit
This publication discusses tools to help OCHA address gender equality. It addresses OCHA’s seven minimum gender commitments. This toolkit is designed to provide practical guidance to OCHA staff to effectively integrate gender into their day-to-day activities. It supports the implementation of the 2012 OCHA Gender Equality Policy. The toolkit comprises two sections. Section one covers… [Read More]
A Free National Action Plan Development Toolkit
National Action Plan Development Toolkit shows how you can use the global Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda as a tool to promote greater gender justice, peace and freedom for all in your own country. You will find information on how to advocate for the development of a National Action Plan (NAP) on Women, Peace and… [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 Guidebook for the Humanitarian Sector: Towards Gender Equality in Humanitarian Response
The main framework for this guidebook is based on the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) handbook on gender equality and humanitarian action, and it builds on the gender needs assessment survey conducted by the UN Inter-Agency Gender Task Force in March 2009. Main issues that arose from that survey were subsequently discussed in focus groups in… [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 Toolkit for Monitoring and Evaluating Child Protection
The Toolkit for Monitoring and Evaluating Child Protection when using Cash and Voucher Assistance (CP and CVA M&E Toolkit) is a resource for actors working in Monitoring and Evaluation, CVA (across sectors), and child protection. This tool, “A focus group discussion/key informant interview tool to identify child protection benefits and risks before starting cash and… [Read More]
A Free Handbook of Palliative Care in Africa
This handbook, one of a series of books produced African Palliative Care Association (APCA), provides quick-reference information on the principles and practices of palliative care. This is with an aim of providing essential knowledge and skills on palliative care for the care and support providers, heads of health teaching institutions, policy makers and others involved… [Read More]
A Free Resilience Handbook to Integrated Resilience Programming
The Resilience Handbook aims to help us think, plan and implement our work in a way that supports the reduction of people’s vulnerability, and contributes to the building of their resilience to a range of hazards, shocks, stresses and threats. It provides programme and policy staff with a framework for resilience that can be applied… [Read More]
A Free Handbook on Needs Assessment
The Needs Assessment Handbook consolidates existing policies, practices and guidance, and represents the first guidance UNHCR has produced on needs assessments that applies to all sectors, situations, methods, and populations of concern. The Handbook is based on existing UNHCR guidance and practice on needs assessment that have been consolidated into a single reference source. It… [Read More]
Free Toolkit: Responding to Violence against Humanitarian Action on the Policy Level
The purpose of this toolkit is to offer guidance to humanitarian actors for responding to violence against humanitarian action. It aims to complement and strengthen operational and security responses and facilitate the development of more effective and coordinated policies geared toward addressing this issue. This toolkit aims at supporting operational organizations in sharing infor –… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for Monitoring and Evaluating Gender-Based Violence Interventions along the Relief to Development Continuum
USAID developed this toolkit to support the implementation of the U.S. Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Gender-based Violence Globally. It provides guidance to USAID staff, implementing partners and the larger community of international relief and development practitioners on how to monitor and evaluate gender-based violence (GBV) interventions along the Relief to Development Continuum (RDC)…. [Read More]
A Free ASPIRES Vulnerability Assessment Handbook for Economic Strengthening Projects
This handbook was developed by the ASPIRES project to assist practitioners and M&E specialists to select vulnerability assessment approaches for economic strengthening (ES) interventions, particularly those integrated into the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) programs for orphans and vulnerable children (OVC). The handbook is intended primarily for development programs in relatively stable contexts… [Read More]
Free Building Bridges: Refugee Support & Advocacy Toolkit
“Building Bridges: Refugee Support & Advocacy Toolkit” provides background on the world’s refugee crisis; and offers ways for you to support refugees in your community, counter anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant bigotry, and advocate for refugee rights and integration. UUSC has created this toolkit to help individuals, congregations, campus clubs, and community groups mobilize in support of… [Read More]
A Free Human Resources (HR) Toolkit for Small and Medium Nonprofit Actors
The CHS Alliance and the Cornerstone OnDemand Foundation partnered up to create a Human Resources (HR) Toolkit to support CHS Alliance members and other humanitarian and development actors across the globe. In the nonprofit and the humanitarian and development sectors, organisational effectiveness and ability to successfully deliver on mission is closely linked to ability to… [Read More]
A Free Guide on Inclusive Systemic Evaluation for Gender equality, Environments and Marginalized Voices
Check out UN Women Independent Evaluation Service guide on the Inclusive Systemic Evaluation for Gender equality, Environments and Marginalized voices (ISE4GEMs) approach. The Inclusive Systemic Evaluation for Gender equality, Environments and Marginalized voices (ISE4GEMs) is an approach for the SDG era. It is part of a larger response to shift the way development actors (from… [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]
