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Child Safeguarding in Cash Transfer Programming

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This tool, developed by Women's Refugee Commission, Child Protection in Crisis Task Force, Save the Children and the Cash Learning Project, seeks to make cash transfer programming more accountable to children, by giving guidance on how to prevent and respond to child protection incidents more effectively. It covers the full program cycle of preparation, planning, implementation, and monitoring. The tool covers all forms of cash transfer programming: conditional and unconditional cash grants, vouchers and cash-for-work, and while it applies specifically to emergency settings, it’s also applicable to non-emergency settings.

Where child protection specialists are available, this tool does not replace the need to seek their advice on context-specific issues that you may encounter.

Authors: 
Hannah Thompson
Organizational Authors: 
Women's Refugee Commission
Child Protection in Crisis Task Force
Save the Children
Cash Learning Project
Year Published: 
2012
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What Works for Women: Proven Approaches for Empowering Women Smallholders and Achieving Food Security

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This short, collaborative document offers lessons learned and recommendations around key agricultural activities aimed at improving household food security.  Case studies from around the globe are used to illustrate key points.

Lessons learned

1. Collective action is key to economic and social empowerment.

2. Access to productive resources is essential.

3. Economic empowerment is not enough, underlying gender inequalities must be challenged.

4. Disaster Resilience and risk management approaches must be gender-sensitive and integrated with development interventions.

Recommendations are provided for national governments and donors.

Organizational Authors: 
ActionAid
CARE
Christian Aid
Concern Worldwide
Find Your Feet
Oxfam
Practical Action
Save the Children
Self Help Africa
Year Published: 
2012
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ACDI/VOCA Gender Analysis, Assessment, and Audit Manual and Toolkit (including Operationalizing a Gender Analysis Study)

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application/pdf icon10 Steps for Operationalizing a Gender Analysis Study

This entry contains two documents from ACDI/VOCA.

1) Gender Analysis, Assessment, and Audit Manual and Toolkit

This document was developed for use by ACDI/VOCA staff and consultants in completing gender studies, but has been made available to a wider audience. It provides guidance and tools from the early stages of planning analyses and assessments through the process of collecting and analyzing information. USAID, FAO, Peace Corps, the World Bank, and others are cited throughout.

2) 10 Steps for Operationalizing a Gender Analysis Study is a one page document offering tips to aid organizations in utilizing the information collected.

Authors: 
Lis Meyers
Lindsey Jones
Organizational Authors: 
ACDI/VOCA
Year Published: 
2012
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Maximizing the Value of “Cash for Work”: Lessons from a Niger land recuperation project, CRS EARLI

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This resource, from Catholic Relief Services, describes the 20 best practices distilled from a recent Real Time Evaluation of the cash for work program Emergency Agricultural Recovery of Livelihoods Initiative (EARLI). In this food security and land recuperation project vulnerable households in two towns in Niger were paid to dig half-moons that reduce erosion, regenerate natural vegetation and recuperate degraded land. The project is a response to the complex emergency in the Sahel that was triggered by shortages in the 2011 harvest, but caused by a much longer-term cycle of perpetual crises and shocks.

Organizational Authors: 
Catholic Relief Services
Year Published: 
2012
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Guide on How to Integrate Disability into Gender Assessments

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This document serves as a “how to” guide on including women and men with disabilities into USAID’s gender assessments and analyses. Specifically, this document also provides the following information:

  • a brief overview of why it is important to include disability in both activity analysis and country-level gender assessments
  • issues specific to disability that one may need to consider while conducting an assessment
  • suggested questions to include during an assessment following a frequently used gender assessment framework
  • additional resources for information on disability.
Organizational Authors: 
USAID
Year Published: 
2010
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Building an Inclusive Development Community

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The inclusion of people with disabilities in development is a topic that has been long-awaited by the international disability community, whose members have historically experienced marginalization from community and international development efforts. Disability and development, however, is still a relatively new topic for international development organizations.

Organizational Authors: 
Mobility International USA
Year Published: 
2003
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Emergencies in Urban Setting: A Technical Review of Food-Based Program Options

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Although food assistance needs in urban and peri-urban areas are expected to require increased resources in the coming years, most experience with food-based programs is in rural areas. Against this backdrop, this paper examined 11 common food-based programs to highlight advantages, disadvantages, targeting, and implementation modalities in the urban context.  The paper also presented tools to help determine the most appropriate interventions and approaches for given settings.

Organizational Authors: 
USAID
AED
FANTA-2
Year Published: 
2008
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ACDI/VOCA Gender Analysis, Assessment, and Audit Manual and Toolkit (including Operationalizing a Gender Analysis Study)

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application/pdf iconGender Analysis, Assessment, and Audit Manual and Toolkit
application/pdf icon10 Steps for Operationalizing a Gender Analysis Study

This entry contains two documents from ACDI/VOCA.

1) Gender Analysis, Assessment, and Audit Manual and Toolkit

This document was developed for use by ACDI/VOCA staff and consultants in completing gender studies, but has been made available to a wider audience. It provides guidance and tools from the early stages of planning analyses and assessments through the process of collecting and analyzing information. USAID, FAO, Peace Corps, the World Bank, and others are cited throughout.

2) 10 Steps for Operationalizing a Gender Analysis Study is a one page document offering tips to aid organizations in utilizing the information collected.

Authors: 
Lis Meyers
Lindsey Jones
Organizational Authors: 
ACDI/VOCA
Year Published: 
2012
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ACDI/VOCA Gender Analysis, Assessment, and Audit Manual and Toolkit (including Operationalizing a Gender Analysis Study)

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application/pdf iconGender Analysis, Assessment, and Audit Manual and Toolkit
application/pdf icon10 Steps for Operationalizing a Gender Analysis Study

This entry contains two documents from ACDI/VOCA.

1) Gender Analysis, Assessment, and Audit Manual and Toolkit

This document was developed for use by ACDI/VOCA staff and consultants in completing gender studies, but has been made available to a wider audience. It provides guidance and tools from the early stages of planning analyses and assessments through the process of collecting and analyzing information. USAID, FAO, Peace Corps, the World Bank, and others are cited throughout.

2) 10 Steps for Operationalizing a Gender Analysis Study is a one page document offering tips to aid organizations in utilizing the information collected.

Authors: 
Lis Meyers
Lindsey Jones
Organizational Authors: 
ACDI/VOCA
Year Published: 
2012
Your rating: None Average: 5 (1 vote)
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Maximizing the Value of “Cash for Work”: Lessons from a Niger land recuperation project, CRS EARLI

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application/pdf iconcash_for_work_sahel_english.pdf

This resource, from Catholic Relief Services, describes the 20 best practices distilled from a recent Real Time Evaluation of the cash for work program Emergency Agricultural Recovery of Livelihoods Initiative (EARLI). In this food security and land recuperation project vulnerable households in two towns in Niger were paid to dig half-moons that reduce erosion, regenerate natural vegetation and recuperate degraded land. The project is a response to the complex emergency in the Sahel that was triggered by shortages in the 2011 harvest, but caused by a much longer-term cycle of perpetual crises and shocks.

Organizational Authors: 
Catholic Relief Services
Year Published: 
2012
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Child Safeguarding in Cash Transfer Programming

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application/pdf iconChild Safeguarding in Cash Transfer Programming

This tool, developed by Women's Refugee Commission, Child Protection in Crisis Task Force, Save the Children and the Cash Learning Project, seeks to make cash transfer programming more accountable to children, by giving guidance on how to prevent and respond to child protection incidents more effectively. It covers the full program cycle of preparation, planning, implementation, and monitoring. The tool covers all forms of cash transfer programming: conditional and unconditional cash grants, vouchers and cash-for-work, and while it applies specifically to emergency settings, it’s also applicable to non-emergency settings.

Where child protection specialists are available, this tool does not replace the need to seek their advice on context-specific issues that you may encounter.

Authors: 
Hannah Thompson
Organizational Authors: 
Women's Refugee Commission
Child Protection in Crisis Task Force
Save the Children
Cash Learning Project
Year Published: 
2012
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Emergencies in Urban Setting: A Technical Review of Food-Based Program Options

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application/pdf iconEmergencies in Urban Setting: A Technical Review of Food-Based Program Options

Although food assistance needs in urban and peri-urban areas are expected to require increased resources in the coming years, most experience with food-based programs is in rural areas. Against this backdrop, this paper examined 11 common food-based programs to highlight advantages, disadvantages, targeting, and implementation modalities in the urban context.  The paper also presented tools to help determine the most appropriate interventions and approaches for given settings.

Organizational Authors: 
USAID
AED
FANTA-2
Year Published: 
2008
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Building an Inclusive Development Community

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The inclusion of people with disabilities in development is a topic that has been long-awaited by the international disability community, whose members have historically experienced marginalization from community and international development efforts. Disability and development, however, is still a relatively new topic for international development organizations.

Organizational Authors: 
Mobility International USA
Year Published: 
2003
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Guide on How to Integrate Disability into Gender Assessments

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application/pdf iconGuide on How to Integrate Disability into Gender Assessments

This document serves as a “how to” guide on including women and men with disabilities into USAID’s gender assessments and analyses. Specifically, this document also provides the following information:

  • a brief overview of why it is important to include disability in both activity analysis and country-level gender assessments
  • issues specific to disability that one may need to consider while conducting an assessment
  • suggested questions to include during an assessment following a frequently used gender assessment framework
  • additional resources for information on disability.
Organizational Authors: 
USAID
Year Published: 
2010
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What Works for Women: Proven Approaches for Empowering Women Smallholders and Achieving Food Security

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Files: 
application/pdf iconWhat Works for Women: Proven Approaches for Empowering Women Smallholders and Achieving Food Security

This short, collaborative document offers lessons learned and recommendations around key agricultural activities aimed at improving household food security.  Case studies from around the globe are used to illustrate key points.

Lessons learned

1. Collective action is key to economic and social empowerment.

2. Access to productive resources is essential.

3. Economic empowerment is not enough, underlying gender inequalities must be challenged.

4. Disaster Resilience and risk management approaches must be gender-sensitive and integrated with development interventions.

Recommendations are provided for national governments and donors.

Organizational Authors: 
ActionAid
CARE
Christian Aid
Concern Worldwide
Find Your Feet
Oxfam
Practical Action
Save the Children
Self Help Africa
Year Published: 
2012
No votes yet
Categories:

ACDI/VOCA Gender Analysis, Assessment, and Audit Manual and Toolkit (including Operationalizing a Gender Analysis Study)

Download
Files: 
application/pdf iconGender Analysis, Assessment, and Audit Manual and Toolkit
application/pdf icon10 Steps for Operationalizing a Gender Analysis Study

This entry contains two documents from ACDI/VOCA.

1) Gender Analysis, Assessment, and Audit Manual and Toolkit

This document was developed for use by ACDI/VOCA staff and consultants in completing gender studies, but has been made available to a wider audience. It provides guidance and tools from the early stages of planning analyses and assessments through the process of collecting and analyzing information. USAID, FAO, Peace Corps, the World Bank, and others are cited throughout.

2) 10 Steps for Operationalizing a Gender Analysis Study is a one page document offering tips to aid organizations in utilizing the information collected.

Authors: 
Lis Meyers
Lindsey Jones
Organizational Authors: 
ACDI/VOCA
Year Published: 
2012
Your rating: None Average: 5 (1 vote)
Categories:

Building an Inclusive Development Community

Download
Files: 
application/pdf iconBuilding an Inclusive Development Community

The inclusion of people with disabilities in development is a topic that has been long-awaited by the international disability community, whose members have historically experienced marginalization from community and international development efforts. Disability and development, however, is still a relatively new topic for international development organizations.

Organizational Authors: 
Mobility International USA
Year Published: 
2003
No votes yet
Categories:

Child Safeguarding in Cash Transfer Programming

Download
Files: 
application/pdf iconChild Safeguarding in Cash Transfer Programming

This tool, developed by Women's Refugee Commission, Child Protection in Crisis Task Force, Save the Children and the Cash Learning Project, seeks to make cash transfer programming more accountable to children, by giving guidance on how to prevent and respond to child protection incidents more effectively. It covers the full program cycle of preparation, planning, implementation, and monitoring. The tool covers all forms of cash transfer programming: conditional and unconditional cash grants, vouchers and cash-for-work, and while it applies specifically to emergency settings, it’s also applicable to non-emergency settings.

Where child protection specialists are available, this tool does not replace the need to seek their advice on context-specific issues that you may encounter.

Authors: 
Hannah Thompson
Organizational Authors: 
Women's Refugee Commission
Child Protection in Crisis Task Force
Save the Children
Cash Learning Project
Year Published: 
2012
No votes yet
Categories:

Emergencies in Urban Setting: A Technical Review of Food-Based Program Options

Download
Files: 
application/pdf iconEmergencies in Urban Setting: A Technical Review of Food-Based Program Options

Although food assistance needs in urban and peri-urban areas are expected to require increased resources in the coming years, most experience with food-based programs is in rural areas. Against this backdrop, this paper examined 11 common food-based programs to highlight advantages, disadvantages, targeting, and implementation modalities in the urban context.  The paper also presented tools to help determine the most appropriate interventions and approaches for given settings.

Organizational Authors: 
USAID
AED
FANTA-2
Year Published: 
2008
No votes yet
Categories:

Guide on How to Integrate Disability into Gender Assessments

Download
Files: 
application/pdf iconGuide on How to Integrate Disability into Gender Assessments

This document serves as a “how to” guide on including women and men with disabilities into USAID’s gender assessments and analyses. Specifically, this document also provides the following information:

  • a brief overview of why it is important to include disability in both activity analysis and country-level gender assessments
  • issues specific to disability that one may need to consider while conducting an assessment
  • suggested questions to include during an assessment following a frequently used gender assessment framework
  • additional resources for information on disability.
Organizational Authors: 
USAID
Year Published: 
2010
No votes yet
Categories:

Maximizing the Value of “Cash for Work”: Lessons from a Niger land recuperation project, CRS EARLI

Download
Files: 
application/pdf iconcash_for_work_sahel_english.pdf

This resource, from Catholic Relief Services, describes the 20 best practices distilled from a recent Real Time Evaluation of the cash for work program Emergency Agricultural Recovery of Livelihoods Initiative (EARLI). In this food security and land recuperation project vulnerable households in two towns in Niger were paid to dig half-moons that reduce erosion, regenerate natural vegetation and recuperate degraded land. The project is a response to the complex emergency in the Sahel that was triggered by shortages in the 2011 harvest, but caused by a much longer-term cycle of perpetual crises and shocks.

Organizational Authors: 
Catholic Relief Services
Year Published: 
2012
No votes yet
Categories:

What Works for Women: Proven Approaches for Empowering Women Smallholders and Achieving Food Security

Download
Files: 
application/pdf iconWhat Works for Women: Proven Approaches for Empowering Women Smallholders and Achieving Food Security

This short, collaborative document offers lessons learned and recommendations around key agricultural activities aimed at improving household food security.  Case studies from around the globe are used to illustrate key points.

Lessons learned

1. Collective action is key to economic and social empowerment.

2. Access to productive resources is essential.

3. Economic empowerment is not enough, underlying gender inequalities must be challenged.

4. Disaster Resilience and risk management approaches must be gender-sensitive and integrated with development interventions.

Recommendations are provided for national governments and donors.

Organizational Authors: 
ActionAid
CARE
Christian Aid
Concern Worldwide
Find Your Feet
Oxfam
Practical Action
Save the Children
Self Help Africa
Year Published: 
2012
No votes yet
Categories: