Toolkits & Guides: External Resources
Government relations-monitoring government policies
- Lobbying & Advocacy Resources on the Commons Library
- Defending Civil Society Toolkit: Tips for Engaging in NGO Law Reforms.
- Monitoring government policies. A toolkit for civil society organisations in Africa
- Toolkit - Tips for Engaging in NGO Law Reforms
- The Corruption Fighters’ Toolkit Civil society experiences and emerging strategies
- Tax justice advocacy: a toolkit for CS
- Policy Engagement How Civil Society Can be More Effective
- Freedom of association in Arab countries: A toolkit
- Mapping Political Context. A Toolkit for Civil Society Organisations
- The Open Government Guide Special Edition: Implementing the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda.
- La Boîte à outil sur la Gouvernance démocratique
- Herramientas para Diseñadores de Políticas Públicas en Países en Desarrollo.
- Herramientas para el Impacto en las Políticas Públicas: Manual para Investigadores.
Internal governance and management
- How to do Strategic Planning A Guide for Small and Diaspora NGOs
- Measuring Institutional Capacity
- A Budget Guide for Civil Society Organisations Working in Education
- Guidelines for Annual reports and financial statements for non-governmental organisations
- Internal Financial Controls for Charities
- Guide to Good Governance Programming
- A Handbook of NGO Governance
- An Overview of Strategic Planning.
- Using Your Work plan as a Management Tool.
- Using Evidence-Based Project Planning.
- Managing targets.
- How to Set Up an Effective Board of Directors
- Guía Operativa y kit de herramientas para incorporar los principios de protección en procesos de gestión integral del riesgo de desastres.
- Manual para la gestión de entidades no lucrativas.
- Guía de planificación estratégica en ONGs de acción social.
- Gestion des ressources humaines dans les ONG.
Capacity analysis, assessment and learning
- Measuring NGO Capacity Development through Organizational Assessments.
- NGO Capacity Building: Key Concepts.
- Organizational Capacity Assessment for Community-Based Organizations
- Pact Organizational Capacity Assessment (OCA) Handbook
- Coalition assessment. Approaches for Measuring Capacity and Impact.
- Echoes from the Field: Proven Capacity-Building Principles for Non-profits.
- Organizational Development Toolkit (ODT)
- Manual for capacity development
- Civil society empowerment: A toolkit, OECD
- Toolkit for capacity development-EC
- Capacity Building Compendium: A Collection of Capacity Building Tools and Resources
- NGO Capacity Analysis Toolkit
- Civil Society’s Role in Poverty and Social Impact Analyses: A Resource Guide and Toolkit for Engagement
- Measuring institutional capacity
- Tools for Knowledge and Learning: A Guide for Development and Humanitarian Organisations. In Spanish here
- Learning by Doing: Civil Society Engagement in the High Level Political Forum’s National Review Process (2016)
- Protecting our space: Human rights defender strategies to protect civil society space
Resource mobilisation
- Resource Mobilisation Toolkit for Girls, Young Women and Trans Youth-FRIDA
- How to mobilise funds and other resources for financial self-reliance
- Grant writing tips
- NGO Tips: Incorporating Sustainability Plans into Grant Programs.
- NGO Tips: A Roadmap for Designing Effective Grants Programs.
- Identifying Grantees to Deliver Results.
- Pitching Your Program to Prospective Partners and Funders.
- Fund Raising Realities and Strategies: Lessons Learnt at the NGO Café.
- Advocacy & Public Policy Grantmaking: Matching Process to Purpose.
- Strategic Communications for Year-Round Donor Engagement
- Challenging the closing space for civil society – a practical starting point for funders
- Cómo alcanzar el éxito en la captación de fondos.
- Cofinancement de projets et programmes. Guide methodologique
- Principios de la redaccion de propuestas-curso online the Foundation Center
- Captación de fondos privados para ONGs. Herramientas básicas.
Monitoring and evaluation
Networking and partnerships
- Coalition Building Resources on the Commons Library
- Facilitation Toolkit – tips and tricks for participatory and empowering facilitation
- Networking and Relationship Building for CSOs. Course Toolkit
- A toolkit for strengthening partnerships, UNDP and CSOs
- Partnerships and Capacity Building A Guide for Small and Diaspora NGOs
- How to make a transparent registration in the European Commission Register of Interest Representatives.
- Increasing Participation and Membership
- What Makes an Effective Coalition?
- Establishing Communities of Practice.
- Developing a Plan for Increasing Participation in Community Action
- Promoting Participation Among Diverse Groups
- Advocacy and Networking Toolkit
- A Toolkit For Strengthening Partnerships-UNDP
- Community Engagement and Planning Toolkit
- 10 Elements of a winning Member Engagement strategy
- Social Networking Guide to Strengthening Civil Society
- Global public space toolkit
- Engaging the Community.
- Designing and managing an OGP Multistakeholder Forum
- Policy Engagement: How civil society can be more effective.
- Non-profits Integrating Community Engagement Guide.
- Inclusión de los Migrantes en las Ciudades Políticas Y Practicas Urbanas Innovadoras.
- The Civil Society Guide to Regional Economic Communities in Africa.
- NGO Network Analysis Handbook: how to measure and map linkages between NGOs.
- UNDP and Civil Society Organizations: A Toolkit for Strengthening Partnerships.
- Civil Society’s Role in Poverty and Social Impact: A Resource Guide and Toolkit for Engagement.
Accountability
- Accountability Resources-Accountable Now
- Ensuring Credibility and Effectiveness: Designing compliance systems in CSO self-regulation
- Civil Society Accountability: Principles and Practice. A toolkit for CSOs in the Pacific Region
- Code of Ethics and Conduct for African Civil Society Organisations. African Women's Development and Communications Network
- Civil society accountability toolkit - South Africa
- La rendición dAe cuentas de La sociedad civil por La sociedad civil Guía de iniciativas de autorregulación.
- Guía Práctica Para La Auditoria Social Como Herramienta Participativa Para Fortalecer La Gobernabilidad Democrática, Transparencia Y Rendición De Cuentas
Engaging with the private sector
- Private sector engagement. A toolkit for effectively building and sustaining program partnerships with the private sector
- Private sector engagement toolkit
- Toolkit of Private Sector Outreach Materials
- Best Practices Guidelines and Toolkit on Engaging the Private Sector in Skills Development
- Guide Pour La Societe Civile La CNUCC et Le Sectteur Prive.
Advocacy and campaigning
- Commons Social Change Library
- Campaign Strategy Resources on the Commons Library
- The Mobilisation Cookbook-MobLab
- Campaign Accelerator Toolkit-MobLab
- Goal 16 Advocacy Toolkit: A Practical Guide for Stakeholders for National-Level Advocacy Around Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies.
- ACT!2015 Advocacy Strategy Toolkit
- Social Media Kit - Gender and Militarism Campaign.
- Communications for Change: How to Use Text Messaging as an Effective Behavior Change Campaigning Tool
- Discovering the Activation Point ™: Smart Strategies to Make People Act
- org -Toolkit
- How to Design an Online Campaign: A Toolkit
- Tax Justice Advocacy Toolkit
- Advocating for Change-Community Toolbox
- Advocacy and Networking Toolkit
- Telling Your Story. A Guide to Preparing Advocacy Case Studies
- A Guide to Measuring Advocacy and Policy.
- 10 Principles civil society guide: How to advocate for better management of assemblies
- UNICEF Advocacy Toolkit
- Communications Procedure: Advocacy Toolkit
- Avoiding Forced Evictions – A Community Guide to Negotiation and Advocacy.
- Advocacy and Campaigning Course Toolkit.
- Advocacy in Action --- A Toolkit to Support NGOs and CBOs (available in English and Hindi).
- Guía para elaborar planes de Incidencia
- Caja de herramientas para actividades de incidencia.
- La defensa de la sociedad civil: Consejos prácticos para participar en las reformas a las leyes que afectan a la sociedad civil.
- Líneas directrices para la participación de ONGs en el proceso de de informes alternativos sobre estados parte en el Comité de Derechos Humanos de Naciones Unidas.
- Les boîtes à outils de plaidoyer sur le changement climatique
Social media and communications
- Voices with purpose: A manual on communication strategies for development and social change
- Making ICT Policy in Africa: An introductory handbook
- Digital Campaigning Resources on the Commons Library
- Communications & Media Resources on the Commons Library
- Civil Society Organizations and Traditional Media: Synergy Instead of Confrontation.
- Using Social Media to Enhance NGO Impact.
- Making the Media Work for You: A Guide for Civil Society Organizations.
- Social Networking: A Guide to Strengthening Civil Society through Social Media.
- Successful Communications: a toolkit for researchers and civil society organisations.
- How to design a social media campaign.
- A practical guide to #SocialMedia for #Charities & #SocialEnterprises
- Change the World: A Toolkit for Citizen Journalists
- Comunicación efectiva Herramientas para investigadores y organizaciones de la sociedad civil.
- Guía de comunicación corporativa de ONGs.
Freedom of expression
Enabling environment and civic space
Youth
- Respecting, Protecting and Fulfilling our Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights: A toolkit for Young leaders.
- United Nations International Youth Day 2018 Toolkit.
- Youth and Conflict. A Toolkit intervention.
- Youth Advocacy Toolkit: The education we want.
- Mapping Youth Leaders for Peacebuilding.
- Linking generations through radio-toolkit: how to start a youth radio programme.
Gender
- Women in social work in the USA, leadership and management: A complete guide
- Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals to advance women’s rights and gender equality: An advocacy guide
- A Toolkit for Gender Equality in Practice
- ICTs for Feminist Movement Building: Activist Toolkit
- Tool Kit on Gender Equality Results and Indicators
- Recognising and protecting women human rights defenders
- Gender and Inclusion Toolbox: Participatory Research in Climate Change and Agriculture
- Caja de herramientas para género e inclusión: Investigación participativa en cambio climático y agricultura.
- Paquete de herramientas para la capacitación en género.
- Place du genre dans le contrôle du secteur de la sécurité par la société civile.
- Boîtes à outils sur le Genre.