Building Resilience: A Guide to Facilitating Community-Managed Disaster Risk Reduction in the Horn of Africa

This manual instructs development workers on how to implement Community-Managed Disaster Risk Reduction (CM-DRR) activities in their communities. The guide equips you to be a CM-DRR field practitioner by providing you with the basic facilitation skills needed to help communities reduce disaster risk through a participatory and people-centered process.

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Second Food Aid and Food Security Assessment (FAFSA-2)

This report is a comprehensive review of the U.S. Agency for International Development Office of Food for Peace (USAID/FFP) Title II development food aid program from FY 2003 to FY 2009. The report focuses on the areas of agriculture and natural resource management; infrastructure; maternal and child health and nutrition; water, sanitation, and hygiene; HIV; and Title II program management.

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Climate Change: From Concepts to Action; A Guide for Development Practitioners

This guide reviews some fundamental concepts that provide a foundation for working with a climate change perspective. It also introduces three strategies for dealing with climate change: adaptation to its effects, mitigation to slow the process of climate change, and adoption of climate-smart agriculture. The guide also provides concrete ways to help the rural poor adapt to climate change.

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A MenCare Fathers' Group Manual for Sri Lanka

This manual contains tested group education modules intended for fathers and their partners, most often spouses, in the plantation region (or tea estates). The purpose of this manual is to promote gender equality within the home and children’s healthy development and overall well-being.

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CRS Guide to Working with Volunteers

This document, developed by Catholic Relief Services, is intended to provide information for country program staff and others who work with or who are planning to work with volunteers in their programs. It is not meant to be prescriptive, but rather to be a guide which is to be adapted to local contexts.

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Integrating Very Poor Producers into Value Chains Field Guide

This guide provides the field-level practitioner with tools and applications to reach very poor households. The intended outcome of the resource is to have greater market engagement for very poor households through enterprise development activities.

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Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning in Emergencies: A Resource Pack for Simple and Strong MEAL

This resource pack offers practical advice about how to implement a system for monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL) in emergencies. It provides

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Toward Resilience: A Guide to Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation

This tool is an introductory resource for staff of development and humanitarian organizations working with people whose lives and rights are threatened by disasters and climate change.

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Emergency Food Security & Livelihoods (EFSL) 48-hour Assessment Tool

The purpose of this tool is to obtain a quick understanding of the emergency food security and livelihood situation, within the first few days after a rapid-onset disaster. The tool is independent of other multi-sectoral assessments and collects information only on food security and livelihoods (EFSL).

This tool is designed specifically for:

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Social and Behavior Change for Family Planning: How to Develop Behavior Change Strategies for Integrating Family Planning into Maternal and Child Health Programs

This training module, developed by CORE Group, is designed to help NGOs and civil society organizations learn how to conduct audience research to develop social and behavior change (SBC) activities. This module focuses on SBC that can be used to add family planning to existing maternal and child health programming, with a focus on community level work.

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