This toolkit and resource guide has been produced jointly by the Sustainable Energy Programme of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and ENERGIA, the International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy. It is designed to help planners and practitioners integrate gender and energy considerations into development programmes, including those focusing on energy improvements as well… [Read More]
Poverty Alleviation Resources
A list of free guides, how-to tools and other resources on Poverty Alleviation for NGOs and development professionals.
A Free Guide for World Free from Child Poverty
Child poverty is a universal problem with devastating impacts on children and societies. For the firsttime,there is global goal (Sustainable Development Goal 1)to end extreme poverty, including for children, and halve the poverty of children by national definitions. With the global agreement on the SDGs including children in the targets and indicators, there is a… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for Child Sensitivity in Poverty Alleviation Programming
Poverty alleviation is a crucial component to achieving Save the Children’s global strategy of child survival, learning, and protection from violence. While many studies suggest that economic strengthening programmes can lead to many benefits to children of beneficiaries, other studies show that programmes may have an insignificant, inconclusive, or even harmful effect on children. In… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit on Poverty Targeting, Gender Equality and Empowerment
Understanding people’s needs and priorities, their own perceptions of poverty, and placing them in the driver’s seat of the change process is the starting point for designing and implementing development interventions that are accessible and beneficial to both women and men, contributing to their own transformative processes. This toolkit explains how to identify and address… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit on Reducing Rural Women’s Domestic Workload through Labour-saving Technologies and Practices
The focus of the toolkit on labour-saving methods to reduce the domestic, rather than the productive, workload is to refocus attention on this relatively hidden but persistent hindrance to IFAD’s drive for rural transformation. Moreover, without redressing the disproportionate burden of domestic work on women, progress towards the global goals to end poverty, hunger, malnutrition,… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit: “From Policy to Action”- Beyond 2015
Beyond 2015 is a global civil society campaign, aiming to develop a strong framework to replace the Millennium Development Goals. Beyond 2015 brings together more than 1300 Civil Society Organizations in over 130 countries around the world. Beyond 2015 has two main goals: A global overarching cross-thematic framework for development after 2015. A participatory and… [Read More]
A Free Handbook on Poverty and Inequality
The handbook on poverty and inequality provides tools to measure, describe, monitor, evaluate, and analyze poverty. It provides background materials for designing poverty reduction strategies. This book is intended for researchers and policy analysts involved in poverty research and policy making. The handbook began as a series of notes to support training courses on poverty… [Read More]
A Free Interfaith Guide to End Child Poverty
The Interfaith Initiative to End Child Poverty (End Child Poverty) is a multi-faith, child-centred, global initiative developed by Arigatou International’s Interfaith Initiative to End Child Poverty — a multifaith, child centred, global initiative that mobilises faith-inspired resources to end child poverty. End Child Poverty believes in a world where every child lives free of poverty…. [Read More]
A Free Handbook on Costing Gender Equality
This handbook is a comprehensive step-by-step guide to costing gender equality priorities. Building on UN Women’s decade long work on gender responsive planning and budgeting, it responds to the growing global demand for guidance on estimating the financing gaps and requirements for achieving gender equality commitments and builds on UN Women’s decade-long work on gender… [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]
Free Toolkit on Poverty Reduction through Tourism
This toolkit aims at assisting developing and least developed countries to create a sustainable tourism industry and businesses based on decent employment. It is oriented towards SMEs and local communities in rural areas and includes case studies, training sessions and best practices. The toolkit outlines the background to poverty reduction approaches, and how the ILO… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit on Measuring Mobility from Poverty
With funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Urban Institute is supporting the US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty. Led by chair David Ellwood and executive director Nisha Patel, the Partnership consists of 24 leading voices representing academia, practice, the faith community, philanthropy, and the private sector. Principles The Partnership’s definition of mobility… [Read More]
A Free Publication on Integrated Promotion of Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: Economic Empowerment, Decision-Making and Workloads
The causes of gender discrimination pervade different aspects of their lives – social, economic, political, environmental – affecting gender roles and relations in domestic, productive and public domains and from the local to the international level. Time-bound development projects need to address the cross-cutting and multifaceted nature of gender inequality through multiple entry points. Objectives… [Read More]
A Free Access to Finance for Renewable Energy Technologies Toolkit
Access to affordable, reliable and sustainable energy is often considered as vital to alleviating extreme poverty. Beyond technology, the challenge is to make these technologies accessible to rural populations. The toolkit focuses on end-user finance for renewable energy technologies for rural households, smallholder farmers, and rural micro, small and medium enterprises. Key issues Energy is… [Read More]
A Free Action Toolkit on Tax Power Campaign Reflection
When funds are missing for quality public services, it’s communities living in poverty, particularly women and girls, that suffer the most, making the world more unequal. Around the world, millions of girls are missing out school. Women are more at risk of violence in their cities from poor public transport and lighting. And women are… [Read More]
A free Toolkit for Transforming Food and Agriculture to Achieve the SDGs
Food and agriculture stand today at a crossroads. Looking back, major improvements in agricultural productivity have been recorded over recent decades to satisfy the food demand of a growing global population. But progress has often come with social and environmental costs, including water scarcity, soil degradation, ecosystem stress, biodiversity loss, decreasing fish stocks and forest… [Read More]
A Free Guide on Poverty Measurement
This Guide has been prepared by the UNECE Task Force on Poverty Measurement, that approaches to poverty measurement vary significantly. There is a large spectrum of poverty indicators, wide varieties of definitions, methods, thresholds and data sources that are not fully matched by national or international guidelines. This publication provides guidance on applying various measurement… [Read More]
A Free Poverty-Forests Linkages Toolkit
The toolkit provides a framework, fieldwork methods and analytic tools to understand and communicate the contribution of forests to the incomes of rural households. What the Poverty-Forest Linkages Toolkit Includes A set of rapid appraisal methods to gather information on economic as well as other contributions from forests to households, especially the poor; Methods for… [Read More]
A Free UNDP-OHCHR Toolkit for Collaboration with National Human Rights Institutions
This Toolkit is intended primarily to support UNCT staff who have little or no working experience with NHRIs, as well as those who have a better understanding, but nonetheless need practical tools and guidance to support the establishment, consolidation, or assessment of these important institutions. As well, those who work in other parts of the… [Read More]
A Free Resource Guide on Gender and Climate Change
This resource guide aims to inform practitioners and policy makers of the linkages between gender equality and climate change and their importance in relation to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. It makes the case for why it is necessary to include women’s voices, needs and expertise in climate change policy and programming, and… [Read More]
