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A list of free guides, how-to tools and other resources on Media and Development for NGOs and development professionals.
A Free Communications Handbook: Developing Good Practice for Women’s Rights Organisations
This “Communications Handbook” is part of a series of “Good Practice Guidelines” designed to support the capacity of women’s rights organisations, in particular, grantees of AWDF. This handbook aims to be a useful reference guide for women’s rights organisations in Africa and will explore several forms of new media communications as well as the more… [Read More]
A Free Advocacy Toolkit: Mobilising Communities on Young People’s Health and Rights
This guide leads the user through the stages of planning and launching an advocacy campaign to ensure that government commitments are translated into programmes that meet young people’s sexual and reproductive health needs. The toolkit provides prototype worksheets and other tools at the end of each chapter. The training guide shows how to facilitate a… [Read More]
A Free Youth Activism for Lebanese Accountability Training Toolkit
This toolkit — Youth Activism for Lebanese Accountability (YALA): An Inclusive Civic Engagement Training Curriculum — is about creating change through activism and accountability. It is about creating change at the individual, institutional, and socio-political level by providing young people with the knowledge and skills to help shape the future of their country. It was… [Read More]
A Free Toolkits for Human Rights Education
Amnesty International’s “Write for Rights” campaign takes place annually around 10 December, which is Human Rights Day (commemorating the day when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted in 1948). Write for Rights aims to bring about change to the lives of people or communities that have suffered or are at risk of human… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit on Strengthening Citizen Action: Communication for Civil Society Organisations
This toolkit has been designed to add to the skills you already use for communicating about your work, as well as advocacy and mobilising communities for civic action. The materials in the kit will assist you to: Design communication strategies based on research, evidence and a solid understanding of the context. Identify tipping points for… [Read More]
A Free Guide to Reporting Civic Space: Media Toolkit
This toolkit was produced by CIVICUS, the global civil society alliance, as part of the Civic Space Initiative (CSI). A partnership between CIVICUS, the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL), ARTICLE 19, and the World Movement for Democracy, The Civic Space Initiative (CSI) is working to protect and expand civic space by fostering an enabling… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit on Gender Equality in Sport
The toolkit “how to make an impact on gender equality in sport All you need to know” to provide information, concrete tips, good-practice examples and strategies to put into practice a gender mainstreaming approach to achieve equality between women and men in sport. This toolkit has been developed as part of the European Union (EU)… [Read More]
A Free Guide for Children and Young Advocates: Child-Led Mobilisation
World Vision is committed to creating spaces and opportunities for children and young people to participate in shaping programmes, practices and policy. This guide supports children and young people in crafting their own voices and spaces as part of the efforts to end violence against children. This guide has been written to support children and… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit on Human Rights Protection in Extraordinary Circumstances
The Toolkit for legal practitioners on response to human rights violations during extraordinary circumstances is now available in English language. It was developed with the aim to support the authorities of Montenegro in ensuring further respect of human rights and rule of law in any potential extraordinary circumstances that might occur. Montenegro, as many other… [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]
Free Advocacy Toolkit: Advocating for the National Strategy for the Development of Statistics
PARIS21 has produced a Country-level Advocacy Toolkit, which aims to help national statistical system managers and statisticians in developing countries with their own advocacy work and to demonstrate the advantages of planning advocacy systematically. It gathers, in a single package, advocacy methodology, tools, tips and messages. The Toolkit deals with statistical advocacy at the country… [Read More]
Free Asia Foundation’s Beyond the Toolkit: Supporting Peace Processes in Asia
In recent years there have been growing calls for new approaches to supporting peace in post-conflict contexts, as current peacebuilding models do not accurately reflect what we know about the nature of conflict, how it ends, and how peace processes are sustained and peace consolidated. To address these issues, The Asia Foundation has launched Beyond… [Read More]
A Free Skill IT Training Toolkit for Youth Workers
The toolkit provides instructions on how to hold a workshop for young people on selected competences and presents theory and research-based facts on the work related to digital enhancement needs, as well as ready-to-use scenarios. Welcome to the Skill IT for Youth Training Toolkit – your friendly guide in helping young people to better face… [Read More]
Free COMED Toolkit on Communication for Education and Development
The Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) is a forum for policy dialogue which aims at bringing African Ministers of Education and their development partners from cooperating agencies to acquire a shared understanding of the stakes and challenges of education in Africa, which would lead to a concerted vision on the policies… [Read More]
A Free Race for Survival Toolkit
This toolkit provides information for Save the Children staff and any participating member of the public on how to organize, coordinate, and participate in the 2015 Race for Survival. The Race for Survival is part of the EVERY ONE Campaign to end preventable child deaths. Save the Children is hosting its biggest mobilisation throughout 2015… [Read More]
A Free Handbook to Strengthen Planning and Budgeting Processes: Mainstreaming Environment and Climate for Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development
This Handbook is designed as guidance for policymakers and practitioners to mainstream pro-poor environment and climate concerns into planning, budgeting and monitoring. Mainstreaming is achieved by putting poverty-environment issues at the heart of government—in other words, by taking these issues into mainstream economic decision-making processes, particularly the national and subnational planning and budgeting processes led… [Read More]
A Free Guide to the Implementation of the World Programme of Action for Youth
The World Programme of Action for Youth encourages governments to be more responsive to the aspirations and needs of youth to usher in a better world. Young people in all countries are both a major human resource for development and key agents for social change, economic development and technological innovation. Recognizing and addressing the special… [Read More]
A Free Advocacy Toolkit on Tobacco Control and the SDGs
Tobacco control is included in the new, global development goals. But that won’t automatically produce more effective tobacco control at country level: for that to happen will require a huge effort from all advocates. This toolkit is designed to help. The World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is included in the Sustainable… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for Policymakers: Mainstreaming Emergency Contraception in Developing Countries
This toolkit on mainstreaming emergency contraception in developing countries has been developed in response to one of the objectives of the 2006 initiative that sought to generate lessons that could serve as a model for other countries interested in improving access to EC, and to generate in-depth knowledge on EC program strategies and utilization characteristics… [Read More]
