CIVICUS Better Planning and Communication Toolkits Campaigning Toolkit for Civil Society Organisations engaged in Millennium Development Goals Gender Toolkits Websites with a Gender Focus Gender Mainstreaming Toolkits Organisational Change for Equality Gender at Work This book presents an analysis of the institutional barriers to gender equality. It lays out strategies and approaches for transforming organisations into cultures expressing gender equity and describes how these approaches have been applied in five separate interventions.
Gender Mainstreaming in Practice: A Handbook
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) This handbook is targeted at policy-makers who are not experts in gender issues, but who are nonetheless charged with the day-to-day responsibility of gender mainstreaming.
Gender and Change in the Organisational Culture: Tools to Construct a Gender Sensitive Organisation
German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) How do you change the gender culture of an organisation? Emerging out of a gender equality project of co-operation between the government departments of Columbia and Germany , this manual aims to provide some answers. These tools cover: how to carry out gender analysis in an organisation, how to guide and support collective change, and how to facilitate a process of personal change.
A Manual for Gender Audit Facilitators
International Labour Organisation This Manual provides gender audit facilitators with guidelines and practical instructions on the planning and implementation of participatory gender audits in an organizational context. Its content and structure are based on training materials that are being used to train facilitators undertaking participatory gender audits within the ILO.
Finding a Foothold: The ecology of gender mainstreaming in a large organisation
Gender at Work This paper analyses the experience of developing a gender mainstreaming strategy for a multilateral development agency, the UNDP. Gender mainstreaming is central to the global mandate of this organisation. The paper examines the extent to which this stated ideological commitment to gender equity has been successful in creating spaces for renegotiation of gender relations within the organisation, and the colonisation of these spaces by advocates for gender issues.
Gender and the Media Toolkits
Gender Tools for Journalists
Commonwealth Press Union The aim of this gender toolkit is to provide journalists with an understanding of gender issues, and of the roles and responsibilities of women and men in society, so that their reporting will be accurate and gender sensitive.
Gender toolkit for Community Radio
National Community Radio Association The gender tool is design for active, hands-on guide for volunteers, programmers and staff at community radio stations. The overall objective is to encourage programme presentation (i.e. deciding what to air or what not to air, how to present a news story in a gender-balanced manner, how to introduce music or present news programs that are gender-equitable and provide fair coverage of women's concerns and issues).
Gender and Labour Toolkits
Promoting Gender Equality: A Resource Kit for Trade Unions
International Labour Organisation This resource kit comprises eight booklets which provide guidance on the role of trade unions in the promotion of gender equality and women workers’ rights. It also includes survey reports and case studies which examine practical experiences of trade unions in this area.
Annotated Bibliography of ILO Tools for Gender Mainstreaming
International Labour Organisation The Bureau for Gender Equality has compiled an annotated bibliography of tools that have been developed by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) over the last few years to promote gender equality in the world of work. The 134 tools included in the bibliography are organised in five categories comprising good practices; guidelines and training material; reports and case studies; discussion and working papers.
Gender and Development Toolkits
Toolkit on Mainstreaming Gender Equality in EC Development Cooperation
The European Commission This toolkit is designed for both gender and non-gender specialists working in development cooperation at the European Commission (EC) to help them integrate gender equality into their work, and to reflect the commitments made by the EC to gender mainstreaming.
Gender, Law, and Policy in ADB Operations: A Toolkit
Asian Development Bank The Gender, Law, and Policy Toolkit helps analyse issues in proposed projects of the Bank. It is particularly useful in designing program and sector development loans, where law and policy reforms play an especially prominent role.
UN-HABITAT Kosovo Gender Toolkit
UN-HABITAT Kosovo This toolkit is designed to provide a conceptual grounding in gender and gender mainstreaming, a strategy for incorporating gender into UN-HABITAT’s programmes in Kosovo, and tools that will assist in turning the strategy into procedure. Sexual and Reproductive Rights Toolkits
Gender & Sexuality Toolkit
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance This toolkit provides a resource aimed at enabling individuals and organisations working on HIV and AIDS issues to address gender and sexuality effectively.
Gender and Violence Against Women Toolkits
Gender and Violence against Women Participatory Toolkit for Rural Communities Oxfam GB East India Office This toolkit is meant to be used to start a process of dialogue at the community level - to help the community begin to understand concepts of gender and violence against women at a basic level.
Gender and Advocacy Toolkits
Connecting Beijing to Home: Women's Lobbying Strategies at the UN
International Women’s Tribune Center Resource kit developed by the International Women's Tribune Center that lays out effective lobbying strategies gleaned from women's experiences and expertise. The toolkit focuses on lobbying strategies for women and connecting their efforts women project activities.
Gender and Climate Change Toolkits
Gender and Energy for Sustainable Development - A Toolkit and Resource Guide
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy (ENERGIA) This toolkit and resource guide aims to help planners and practitioners integrate gender and energy considerations into development programmes, including those focusing on energy improvements. Gender and Human Rights Activism
Claiming Rights, Claiming Justice: A Guidebook on Women Human Rights Defenders
Defending Women-DefendingRights.org The guidebook aimed to help women human rights defenders name the specific risks, violations and constraints they face in their work. It presents a practical discussion of the useful mechanisms developed by the state and also the civil society to provide redress and remedy, and to protect women human rights defenders. It is intended to be used by human rights and other organisations to further a gender perspective in the monitoring and documentation of human rights.
Books The Gender and Disaster Sourcebook Gender and Disaster Network The Gender and Disaster Sourcebook is a one-stop user-friendly electronic guide to help answer these questions. The outcome of a year-long project to consolidate and organise English-language materials in the field, the Sourcebook is a work in progress to which it hope for further contributions. For more information, please contact programme@civicus.org. Top
