Month: November 2016

This training manual aims to support facilitators to initiate discussions on gender and violence in schools. This is based on the intervention research project – Gender Equity Movement in Schools (GEMS) – that was implemented in Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) schools by International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), Committee of Resource Organizations (CORO) for Literacy and Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS). Continue Reading

UNDP hopes that this manual will ‘demystify’ gender mainstreaming for environment and energy practitioners and their colleagues, and make a case for the relevance of gender considerations to UNDP staff directly or indirectly involved in work related to environment and energy. Continue Reading

The manual has been designed as both a practical tool and a reference resource for carrying out gender awareness training by IREX Resource Partners on gender and gender mainstream. The manual has been divided into separate session plans that cover different topics, with all the sessions designed to meet the overall aims and objectives of the workshop. Continue Reading

The Transparency, Accountability & Participation (TAP) Network is a broad network of civil society organisations (CSOs) that works to ensure that open, inclusive, accountable, effective governance and peaceful societies are at the heart of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and that civil society are recognized and mobilized as indispensable partners in the design, implementation of and accountability for sustainable development policies, at all levels. Continue Reading

From time to time, your NGO has to take stock of how it is doing. Probably your organisation is strong in some ways and weak in others, with a strong/weak balance that can change over time. If you identify the weak parts, you can make a planned, conscious effort to improve them with a Strategic Plan. Continue Reading

In September 2015, States formally adopted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their accompanying 169 targets, as enshrined in The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Continue Reading

In early 2014, USAID/Nigeria invited the Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation (CMM) to conduct a cross-sectoral conflict assessment focusing on USAID programs and the risk of violence during the 2015 presidential elections.

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This document is designed as a reference guide for UN Country Teams (UNCTs), under the leadership of the UN Resident Coordinators, that wish to support Member States and national stakeholders in adapting The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to national contexts (“mainstreaming”) while protecting its integrity. As such, this guide does not seek to be either prescriptive or exclusive, but rather to spark thinking by UNCTs on how they may wish to proceed. Continue Reading

Poverty, hunger, starvation and diseases were the major challenges facing the developing nations while the developed economies seemed to be enjoying the benefits of development including human rights, democracy, and good governance. Continue Reading

Felix Dodds is a Senior Fellow at the Global Research Institute and a Senior Affiliate of the Water Institue at the University of North Carolina and an Associate Fellow at the Tellus Institute. He was the co-director of the 2014 Nexus Conference on Water, Food, Energy and Climate. Continue Reading

This is to share with you some of the resolutions taken by the board of Trustees of Civil Society Coalition on Sustainable Development (formerly Campaign2015+ International) in two of their meetings held in September and in November 2016. Continue Reading