Resource Center: Useful Links

This page provides links to useful on-line tools and resources to improve development effectiveness. This is not a comprehensive list, but one that can point you in the right direction to get started.

Links

NGO Capacity Building

  • NGOConnect.NET is an interactive web portal with tools, resources and participatory communities to promote NGO and NGO network capacity building and linkages throughout the developing world. Social Impact is part of this USAID-sponsored project and our NGO capacity building services can be acquired quickly by USAID through a pre-approved contracting mechanism.

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Gender Mainstreaming

  • Eldis Gender Resource Guide. Comprehensive guide to the latest on-line resources for gender and gender mainstreaming.
  • DFID Gender Manual: A Practical Guide for Development Policy Makers and Practitioners.
  • Gender Management System Handbook. Produced by the Commonwealth Secretariat, this guide provides practical advice on establishing management systems to mainstream gender in the work of governments, NGOs and inter-governmental agencies.

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Program Management

  • DFID Tools for Development. Social Impact helped to create this guide with a range of techniques and practical tips for planning and managing development projects and programs. The popular guide is used around the globe by DFID, local partners and other development practitioners.

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Evaluation Capacity Development

  • Monitoring and Evaluation: Some Tools, Methods and Approaches. This brief guide developed by Social Impact for the World Bank Evaluation Capacity Development (ECD) program has become a "best seller" in six languages. This and a number of other useful evaluation resources are available on the ECD website.

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Participation and Empowerment

  • Eldis Participation Resource Guide. Comprehensive access to the latest on-line manuals and tools related to participation, organized by sectors and thematic areas.
  • World Bank Empowerment Website. A resource on practical and conceptual elements of empowerment, including Social Impact-developed training modules on Social Accountability and Measuring Empowerment.

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Implementing Policy Change

  • USAID Implementing Policy Change Website. Collection of practical tools, case studies and working papers developed by USAID to improve policy implementation and democratic governance.
  • Networking for policy change: an advocacy training manual for maternal health. A guide for conceptualizing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating advocacy developed by the POLICY Project

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