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]
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 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]
A Free Toolkit on ARC Resource Pack (Actions for the Rights of the Children)
The ARC Resource Pack (Actions for the Rights of the Children) is the result of interagency collaboration over a number of years and has the additional purpose of bringing practitioners together from different organisations to share understandings, experiences and training opportunities. It is a priority initiative of the Child Protection Working Group of the Global… [Read More]
A Free Disaster Risk Reduction World Vision Disaster Risk Reduction Toolkit: Tool 1 – Initial Risk Assessment
Initial Risk Assessment: Tool 1 of World Vision’s Disaster Risk Reduction Toolkit. The Initial Risk Assessment Tool is to be used during the LEAP assessment (Learning through Evaluation with Accountability & Planning). This tool aims to assist Annual Development Programme (ADP) Managers to determine the general disaster risk in the programme area, within a limited… [Read More]
A Free Newborn Health in Humanitarian Settings Field Guide
The Newborn Health in Humanitarian Settings: Field Guide provides guidance and tools to reduce neonatal morbidity and mortality in humanitarian crisis situations that result from natural disasters, armed conflicts, political turmoil and other social and systemic upheavals. It provides guidance to program managers regarding the initiation of newborn health services during the acute phase of… [Read More]
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A Free Operational Guidance and Toolkit for Multipurpose Cash Grants
Comprehensive guide and reference useful for designing and implementing a multipurpose cash grant intervention during an emergency response. The guide provides detailed step-by-step guidance after the onset of an emergency from the initial needs assessment, to how to determine the transfer value, to ensuring programme quality. Education advisors, managers and donors could use this toolkit… [Read More]
A Free UNHCR Information Management Toolkit
Information Management (IM) has been identified as a core responsibility of UNHCR by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and is also endorsed as a special project for the organization throughout 2012–2014. The Emergency Information Management Guidance Notes and Toolkit (hereafter “Toolkit”) is one of many steps towards operationalizing information management within UNHCR. This… [Read More]
A Free Safeguarding in Emergencies Toolkit
The toolkit is designed to be used by Child Safeguarding Country Leads and Focal Points, deployable Safeguarding/PSEA staff, and humanitarian/operational managers with responsibility for safeguarding. The toolkit is not designed to be read cover-to-cover, but instead for you and your teams to dip in and out of as needed, with further reading, resources and examples… [Read More]
A Free Training Toolkit for Civil Society Actors and Multidimensional Peace Support Personnel in West Africa
This toolkit on the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) was designed to introduce the concept to practitioners and policy makers in West Africa, as well as deepen their knowledge of its development and practice. It aims to achieve this through seven targeted training sessions to be delivered over three days using a combined methodology of brainstorming,… [Read More]
A Free Durable Solutions for Children Toolkit
The Toolkit allows practitioners to build evidence-based and child-focused, long-term solutions and advocacy interventions. It provides substantial direction on issues of return and re-integration and outlines options, actions and legal guidance related to local integration and resettlement. It can help measure child specific gaps in displacement and irregular migration settings, shape policy and decision-making, monitor… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for Optimizing Cash-based Interventions for Protection from Gender-based Violence: Mainstreaming GBV considerations in CBIs and Utilizing Cash in GBV Response
This toolkit assists practitioners in collecting the requisite situational protection information on risks for affected populations with an age, gender, and diversity (AGD) lens, identifying community-based or self-protection mechanisms, and preparing a monitoring system that is based on identified protection risks. All of the tools in this toolkit are designed to be adapted to context… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for Adolescent and Youth Engagement MENA UN
This toolkit is designed to provide those working in the humanitarian and development sectors with a collecon of key tools to support young people’s parcipaon and engagement. It draws on the theory of change, Posive Adolescent Development and the Social Jusce Development approach. This toolkit intends to provide guidance for meaningfully engaging adolescents and youth… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for Gender-Based Violence Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation with Refugee and Conflict-Affected Population
Developed with support from the US Department of State Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration and the UK Department for International Development, this manual aims to support researchers and members of the humanitarian community in conducting ethical and technically sound research, monitoring and/or evaluation on gender-based violence (GBV) within refugee and conflict-affected populations. About the… [Read More]
A Free Practitioner’s Guide to Child Rights Programming: Getting it Right for Children
This guide has been developed by the Save the Children CRP-PEN (Child Rights Programming Professional Exchange Network). This guide provides ideas and tools that will enable development and humanitarian workers to put children and their rights at the centre of their programmes. This child rights programming (CRP) practitioners’ guide will help you apply child rights… [Read More]
