- Selecting tree species on the basis of community needs
- K. Warner / Forestry Department, FAO, 1994
- Purpose of this manual is to help field workers to work with a community in order to identify the tree species that would best serve that community’s needs. A growing number of projects and programmes are recognizing that The spe...
- Advancing national and community responses to AIDS
- Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 1999
- Aims at assisting parliamentarians and other elected officials to enact effective legislation and undertake appropriate law reform in the fight against AIDS. Provides examples of best legislative and regulatory practices gather...
- A Manual on School Sanitation and Hygiene
- IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, 2000
- Manual on school sanitation and hygiene eduation (SSH) deals with aspects needed to bring about changes in hygiene behaviour of students and, through these students, in the community at large. Manual aimed at: th...
- Reviewing theory and best practices
- B. E. Swanson; R. P. Bentz; A.J. Sofranko / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1998
- Editors suggest agricultural research and extension must become more demand driven if institutions are to maintain or regain the public trust and to compete effectively for public funds. Manual lays out the evolution of agricul...
- Manual for policy and implementation
- J. Del Rosso / School Health, 1999
- Designed to assist those engaged in the process of creating new School Feeding Programmes (SFPs) or seeking to improve the effectiveness of on-going ones. It is based on a review of the SFP research and program literature from the las...
- Conducting agricultural marketing within a supportive regulatory framework
- C. Cullinan / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1999
- Aims to provide policy-makers and law-makers with the necessary tools to evaluate the impact of existing law on marketing systems and to identify the changes needed to achieve the desired policy goals. Aims to improve the effec...
- Reviews option for smaller NGOs aiming to develop effective M&E systems
- N. Simister / Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 2000
- How can smaller NGOs collect monitoring and evaluation data which data is accurate and meaningful? Where does their capacity need to be improved? The paper argues that the development community as a whole pays in...
- When Accountability Fails: A Framework for Diagnosis and Action
- M. Schacter / Institute on Governance, 2000
- Paper targeted at development assistance agencies involved in supporting the strengthening of public-sector accountability. It proposes a simple analytical framework that is intended to help understand relationships bet...
- Tool box on policy and implementation strategies
- Global Water Partnership, 2000
- This tool box collates the experience of IWRM experts. Its aim is to support water professionals and policy makers by offering easy access to practical, non- prescriptive advice, information on how to establish integrated water resour...
- Older people in disasters and humanitarian crises: Guidelines for best practice
- HelpAge International, 2000
- Aimed at helping relief agencies meet the special needs of older people in emergencies. Guidelines give examples of key approaches and actions that could help the humanitarian community reduce the vulnerability associated with ...
- Guidelines for aid agencies on chemicals management
- Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 1993
- An essential element in a strategy of sustainable development is the protection of health and the environment from adverse effects. As economies in developing countries diversify and grow, chemicals can be expected to be used in incre...
- Guidelines for aid agencies on involuntary displacement and resettlement in development projects
- Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 1992
- Calls on project designers and implementors to ensure that the population displaced by a project receives benefits from the changes and that it is re-established on a sound productive basis. The basic rationale and main elements to co...
- Guidelines for Aid Agencies on Pest and Pesticide Management
- Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 1999
- Over the last decades, the use of pesticides in developing countries has rapidly increased, while the development and introduction of instruments to control their use and distribution has lagged behind. In many countries this has led ...
- Guidelines for Aid Agencies on Disaster Mitigation: Maps
- Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 1999
- Guidelines for participatory research projects in health
- Institute of Health Promotion Research, University of British Columbia, 1995
- This document, produced by the Institute of Health Research, Canada, outlines a set of guidelines for participatory research in health promotion. These guidelines are intended for use by grant application reviewers to appraise whether...
- Business and biodiversity: a guide for the private sector
- World Business Council for Sustainable Development, 1997
- This guide has been devised specifically to represent business interests, to tell business people how to become more engaged in implementing the Convention, and to encourage the private sector to contribute its valuable experience to ...
- Guidelines for the Integration of Gender Issues into the Design, Monitoring and Evaluation of ILO Programmes and Projects
- International Labour Organization, 1995
- The aim of the guidelines is to provide ILO staff with the analytical concepts and tools to incorporate women and equality concerns into the design, monitoring and evaluation of ILO programmes. They assist the staff in: recognizing th...
- BetterEvaluation
- BetterEvaluation is an international collaboration to improve evaluation practice and theory by sharing information about options (methods or tools) and approaches. It offers online tools and materials organised into tasks: Approaches, Themes and Resources.
- ARPN Journal of Science and Technology
- Journal of Science and Technology is an international, open-access journal that publishes research intensive articles and scientific manuscripts and survey based contributions focusing all aspects of science and Technology. The objective of this journal is to bring together research fellows from academia and professional practitioners from industry to enlighten the latest topics of interest and bu...
- Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies
- Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies (CSDMS) formerly known as Centre for Spatial Database Management and Solutions, is a Non Governmental Organisation (NGO), located at Noida, near India’s capital city of New Delhi. CSDMS is committed to advocacy and developing solutions for under-privileged societies through the use of innovative and effective Information and Commun...
- Sustainable Community Development Services (SCODE)
- SCODE is a national NGO whose aim is to enable people in Kenya especially the poor, to improve their quality of life by adopting technologies and approaches that are environmental friendly and contribute towards sustainable development.
- Women and Children First (UK)
- Advocacy and research organisation working to improve maternal and newborn health.
- Tanzania Commission for AIDS (TACAIDS)
- The Tanzania Commission for AIDS (TACAIDS) is a government institution mandated to provide strategic leadership and to coordinate and strengthen efforts of all stakeholders involved in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
- Code of Good Practice for NGOs Responding to HIV/AIDS
- The Code of Good Practice for NGOs Responding to HIV/AIDS was developed by non-governmental organisations (NGOs), for NGOs, drawing on the knowledge and experience gained since the response to HIV began. The Code sets out the key principles, practice and evidence base required for successful responses to HIV with the aim of: assisting NGOs to improve the quality and...
- Ba Futuru
- Ba Futuru, meaning “For the Future,” is a peacebuilding organisation located in Timor-Leste (East Timor). The organisation’s mission is to build a culture of peace and non-violence in Timor Leste by developing the values, skills, knowledge and wellbeing of conflict-affected, vulnerable and at-risk young people, and those who care for them. To this end, Ba Futuru engages children...
- The Citizen Lab
- The Citizen Lab engages in advanced research and development at the intersection of digital media and world civic politics.
- International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) Internet Training Platform
- Platform offering free training materials on organic agriculture
