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]
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.
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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]
Water and Conflict: A Free Toolkit for Programming
Competition over natural resources, including water, is often viewed as a driver of conflict and has emerged as a key component in many current and past conflicts. However, disputes over water, whether scarce or abundant, do not always result in violence. In fact, the management of water often brings parties together and encourages cooperation; it… [Read More]
A Free Research to Action Toolkit: VAWG in Conflict and Humanitarian Settings
Through the What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) programme funded by the UK Department for International Development programme, the Global Women’s Institute (GWI) and International Rescue Committee (IRC) have focused on developing new evidence to address gaps in understanding of VAWG during conflict and humanitarian crises, including implementing a landmark population-based… [Read More]
70+ Free Downloadable Resources for NGOs empowering Women & Girls around the World
Bringing the set of free toolkits, handbooks, manuals and resource guides useful for NGOs working in the area of women and gender equality. Whether you are working on gender equality, women’s rights, women empowerment or on any other women and gender related issues, these powerful resources will help you build your knowledge and skills for… [Read More]
Top 35+ Free Downloadable Handbooks and Toolkits for African NGOs and CSOs
Here is a compilation of 35+ toolkits, designed for the the quick reference of the NGOs and CSOs on various pressing issues affecting the African continent. These toolkits have been made available by various international organizations and programs implemented across the world. A Free Private Health Policy Toolkit for Africa “Private Health Policy Toolkit for… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for Field Practitioners: Risk Management in Fragile Settings
Risk Management in Fragile Settings: A Toolkit for Field Practitioners, a resource to allow organizations to carry out day-to-day operations when full access to affected communities is not possible. This approach is designed with the clear aim of providing practical tools and guidelines for field staff so that they may: Clarify operational responsibility level; Support… [Read More]
A Free Global Nutrition Cluster Toolkit for Nutrition in Emergencies
The purpose of this toolkit is to provide a nutritional response during and after an emergency situation. Too often, in the high-pressure context of emergencies, key aspects of nutritional health and well-being are not adequately addressed. Poor decisions are made in the short-term, which have long-term negative impacts on the nutritional stability of the affected… [Read More]
A Free Handbook for Promoting Sound Agricultural Practices: Livelihood Options in Refugee Situations
This Handbook is intended to help develop an understanding of what needs to be considered when dealing with agriculture in a refugee or returnee operation. In particular, it clarifies how to promote and maintain sound practices for displaced people in diverse situations, often working with a range of different agencies. The Handbook presents options and… [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 Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) in Emergencies Toolkit
The Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) in Emergencies toolkit aims to provide streamlined guidance to support organizations and agencies seeking to rapidly integrate MHM into existing programming across sectors and phases. This toolkit was informed by an extensive desk review, qualitative assessments with a range of humanitarian actors and organizations, and direct discussions with girls and… [Read More]
