This ‘Menstrual hygiene matters’ training guide was produced by WaterAid and jointly funded by the Sanitation and Hygiene Applied Research for Equity (SHARE). ‘Menstrual hygiene matters’ is an essential resource for improving menstrual hygiene for women and girls in lower and middle-income countries. To manage menstruation hygienically and with dignity, it is essential that women… [Read More]
Women and Gender Resources
A list of free guides, how-to tools and other resources on Women and Gender for NGOs and development professionals.
A Free Guide for Planners and Decision Makers: Female-friendly Public and Community Toilets
The ‘Female-friendly guide’ is designed primarily for use by local authorities in towns and cities who are in charge of public and community toilets. It’s also useful for national governments, public and private service providers, NGOs, donors and civil society organisations who play a role in delivering these services. The guide explains why toilets must… [Read More]
A Free Mobile Technical Literacy Toolkit
This toolkit will help practitioners to address the challenge of improving women’s technical ability and awareness about mobile phones, to better enable women to take advantage of mobile phones and the life empowering services that they can offer. The GSMA Connected Women programme, together with our partners the Pacific Financial Inclusion Program (PFIP), MiBank, National… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for Engaging People in Conservation
This resource was developed by Audubon, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Environmental Education and Training Partnership (EETAP), TogetherGreen, North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE), and many other colleagues, and is designed to better engage people to achieve more sustainable conservation results. Why engage stakeholders? Although there is no universally effective way to incorporate stakeholders,… [Read More]
A Free Gender Assessment Tool for National HIV and TB Responses
The UNAIDS HIV Gender Assessment tool was developed recognizing the need for more systematic data collection on gender equality and HIV, as revealed by the mid-term review of the UNAIDS Agenda for Accelerated Country Action for Women, Girls, Gender Equality and HIV 2010– 2014 (hereinafter, the UNAIDS Agenda for Women and Girls), the UNAIDS Secretariat… [Read More]
A Free Guide to International Labour Standards and Rights at Work
This Guide is intended for ILO constituents and other stakeholders concerned with promoting youth employment, and in particular ensuring decent work for young people. This Guide describes international labour standards relevant to young persons. While covering different thematic areas, it focuses on the key provisions of Conventions and Recommendations, in particular those of special relevance… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for the Workplace – HIV/AIDS Behaviour Change Communication
To address the objective of reducing HIV/AIDS risk behaviours among workers, the ILO has collaborated closely with Family Health International to build upon FHI’s expertise and experience to develop a Toolkit on behaviour change communication adapted to the dynamics of the workplace. Behaviour change communication (BCC) is an interactive process that helps to understand the… [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 Toolkit on Women’s Land Rights
This toolkit gathers together information on five tools that have been successfully used by members of the International Land Coalition (ILC) to promote, protect and strengthen women’s land rights. It is intended to facilitate mutual learning based on good practices. What is this toolkit for? This toolkit aims to provide a range of useful tools,… [Read More]
A Free Handbook on Effective Prosecution Responses to Violence Against Women and Girls
Drawing upon the recommendations and guidance contained in the updated Model Strategies and Practical Measures, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and UN Women, in cooperation with Thailand Institute of Justice, have drafted the Handbook on Effective Prosecution Responses to Violence against Women and Girls with a view to assist prosecutors in… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for Integrating LGBT Activities into Programming
This Toolkit contains resources to assist Europe and Eurasia (E&E) region Mission staff and implementing partners to increase and improve the LGBT community’s involvement in development programming. LGBT initiatives are a new priority for USAID, and there is still much to learn and understand about how to work most effectively with LGBT people and communities…. [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for African NGOs: Provoking Change
This toolkit was produced by FERN at the request of a network of environmental NGOs in West Africa: the Green Actors of West Africa (GAWA). This Advocacy Toolkit is for local and national NGOs, but specifically for those based in West Africa, as the case studies and background information are focused on this region. The… [Read More]
A Free Guide for Development Agencies and Policy Makers: Youth Participation in Development
The Youth Participation in Development Guide was created as part of a joint project between the DFID CSO Youth Working Group and the DFID Equity and Rights Team in the UK with the goal of furthering the participation of young people in the decision making process within development and support donor agencies (multilateral and bilateral)… [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 Programming Handbook on Youth, Peace and Security
Youth, Peace and Security: A Programming Handbook, developed by the United Nations with the generous support of the Folke Bernadotte Academy – the Swedish Agency for Peace, Security and Development – seeks to contribute to the operational readiness and capacity of United Nations practitioners to implement the youth, peace and security (YPS) agenda. The handbook… [Read More]
Free Private Sector Toolkit for Working with Youth
The Private sector toolkit to working with youth is part of a series of technical papers aimed both at strengthening youth participation at all levels through cooperation among various stakeholders, as well as at highlighting the role of youth as agents of development. Building on Youth participation in development, which provides guidance to development agencies… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit Gender in EU-Funded Research
Ever since the Treaty of Rome, the European Union has consistently advocated gender equality as one of its core policies. Yet the monitoring and assessment studies of FP5 and FP6 have shown that despite the efforts to promote gender in research, women remain under-represented and the issue of gender is far from being systematically addressed… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for Gender Equality in Practice
The European social partners, ETUC1, BUSINESS EUROPE, UEAPME and CEEP, are committed to and have a key role to play in enhancing gender equality on the labour market and in the workplace. Equality between women and men is a fundamental principle on which theEuropean Union has been built. Over the years, equal treatment legislation has… [Read More]
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A Free Take Action Toolkit
The ITF End Violence against Women Transport Workers ‘Take Action Toolkit’ for affiliates wanting to expand or kick-start their action on ending violence against women transport workers. This toolkit is aimed at those running workshops and campaigns, those who are involved in collective bargaining, those who are seeking education on the issue and those who… [Read More]
