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.

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

Civicus toolkit on how organizaitons can promote themselves; Karen Hurt; Toolkit

NPI Round 3 Launch Binder Handout for Breakout Session on Cost Share- sample of cost share guidelines developed by AED

A facilitator's guide to partnership dialogue; This manual is a guide to facilitating constructive discussion and dialogue with partners. It is based on the idea that partnership is a process and an ongoing journey. Rather than a set of tools to apply to partners, this manual lays out a process for CRS and partners to jointly explore challenges faced. It contains sessions that are intended to be creative, forward thinking, honest and fun and help guide you through a process of tackling some possibilities and challenges of partnership. It gives suggestions for participatory designs for use in any workshop context and ideas for using sessions in a variety of applications. Facilitation notes, handouts and flip chart content are included with each session design.

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.

Nonprofit organizations are now continuously being challenged to be more strategic in their communications efforts. Communications activities must add up to more than a series of isolated events such as the dissemination of an occasional publication or press release. Being strategic requires that nonprofits be more deliberate, innovative, savvy, and less reactive in their communications practice. Nonprofits are encouraged to regard communications as essential to their overall success and integrate it throughout their organizations.Nonprofits need ways to better understand their current strategic communications performance and capacity, and to gain a realistic sense of what is possible in terms of developing their communications functions. Strategic communications audits are one tool that can help to meet this need.

10 Steps to Hiring and Managing Sub-Partners; NPI