A guide for non-governmental organizations and citizens' initiatives.; Academy for Educational Development; 2004

Workbook with worksheets to support collaboration between NGOs and businesses.; This workbook, its companion videotape, and the Drucker Foundation Web site are designed to complement James Austin's The Collaboration Challenge. Together these resources can help your nonprofit organization further its mission through strategic alliances with businesses. These resources can be used, alone or in combination, to encourage your board, volunteers, and staff to consider carefully whether and how to develop alliances with businesses. Here are brief overviews of these resources.The Collaboration Challenge: James Austin's book provides extensive case studies, frameworks, and lessons. It is the primary source for the Drucker Foundation's Meeting the Collaboration Challenge resources. Meeting the Collaboration Challenge Workbook: This workbook provides a step-by-step process for nonprofits to explore and develop alliances with businesses. It is useful both for organizations with limited alliance experience and for organizations that have established alliances. Nonprofit leaders can choose which phases and worksheets are most helpful to their own situation. Additional resources can help leaders explore the topics most important to their work. Meeting the Collaboration Challenge Video: The videotape is a powerful tool that introduces examples of nonprofit business alliances and demonstrates how the ideas presented in the book and workbook are expressed in action. The video illustrates alliances' benefits and challenges as nonprofit and business leaders explain how their partnerships have developed and evolved. Drucker Foundation Web Site: The Web site provides this workbook in a downloadable format and presents additional current resources for meeting the collaboration challenge, including information about related workshops, and how to subscribe to the monthly Meeting the Collaboration Challenge email notice.

Toolbook describes the generic partnering process from inception to conclusion, provides ""stand alone"" tools to enable practitioners to develop effective partnerships and includes information about the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition and food fortification.

USAID toolkit exploring the connections between livelihoods and conflict; This ""toolkit"" explains the connections between livelihood and conflict and aims to provide USAID missions with access to concrete, practical program options, lessons learned, and information about potential partners, mechanisms and monitoring and evaluation tools for implementing more effective conflict programs. The document concentrates on how violent conflict can affect individual and community access to essential resources and how an approach that focuses on strengthening that access can help people survive and recover from conflict. Livelihoods, or individuals' or households' access to resources is often a primary factor in motivating violence. In some cases, if livelihood support is offered early enough, conflict may be avoided.

Toolkit covers the importance of building relationships with other organizations, the development of networking and the link between successful relationships and strong civil society.

Manual to support peacebuilding and reconciliation; The manual aims to provide Caritas Internationales workers, and other NGO workers, with flexible training suggestions and materials to support and enhance their efforts in peacebuilding and reconciliation. It is designed for both trainers and novices. More specifically, the manual goals are to: Provide ideas and resources for effective peacebuilding trainers; Provide interactive materials that cover the basic conceptual dimensions of peacebuilding; Provide training modules that identify and enhance skills needed for peacebuilding and reconciliation work; Provide trainers with flexible options that allow them to tailor training to fit participants' needs and their local context.

Document provides practical guidance for programs aimed at addressing the needs of children affected by HIV/AIDS. It provides key definitions, guiding principles and important considerations for programming decisions and further clarifies PEPFAR priorities and the activities that it will fund related to orphans and vulnerable children.

Document outlines a PowerPoint presentation on the severity of the AIDS epidemic and provides an overview of PEPFAR's response focusing on the New Partners Initiative.

Le volume intitulé Plaidoyer: Développement d’aptitudes pour les dirigeants d’ONG est le neuvième volume de la série des manuels de formation du CEDPA. Ce manuel est basé sur l’expérience qu’a acquise le CEDPA en développant les aptitudes dont ont besoin les dirigeants d’organisations non gouvernementales (ONG) pour promouvoir le changement dans le domaine de la santé reproductive. C’est une division du CEDPA, l’équipe de renforcement des capacités (Capacity Building Team), qui l’a mis au point, avec le soutien du Fonds des Nations Unies pour la Population (FNUAP). S’appuyant sur une méthode de formation participative, ce manuel présente les principes de base du plaidoyer sous la forme d’un atelier de trois jours.

Civicus toolkit on how organizations can produce their own media; Karen Hurt; Toolkit