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Featured Resources
Advocacy
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Grassroots Advocacy Handbook – This handbook is designed to provide local–level communities with the steps required to conduct basic advocacy activities. It was developed in direct collaboration with a variety of local Cambodian communities that have successfully conducted their own advocacy campaigns. The handbook addresses topics such as problem identification, collecting information and evidence, building community ownership and consensus, and explains the types of advocacy tools suitable for use at a local level. |
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Advocacy Handbook: A Practical Guide to Increasing Democracy in Cambodia – The goal of this guide is to provide practical information on strategies and techniques for current and future advocates. It also can be used to educate those interested in advocacy. It is the companion to the publication Advocacy in Cambodia, which analyzes Cambodia's advocacy campaigns, lessons learned and best practices based on eight sectors, which available on the Pact Cambodia website. |
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The Advocacy Expert Series – This series is a set of educational publications developed by the Advocacy and Policy Program at Pact Cambodia that explore the principles, strategies, and techniques of effective advocacy campaigns. All five modules are also available in Khmer from the Advocacy Publications page on Pact Cambodia's site.
Titles in the series include:
Advocacy Expert Series Module 1: Advocacy Campaign Management
Advocacy Expert Series Module 2: Building Relationships with Government
Advocacy Expert Series Module 3: Working with the Media
Advocacy Expert Series Module 4: Building and Maintaining Coalitions
Advocacy Expert Series Module 5: Advocacy through Legal Services |
Capacity Building
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The PISA ACTION Guide: Community–Driven Tools for Data Collection and Decision Making – Participatory Information Systems Appraisal (PISA) represents a shift in our predominant way of thinking about information for economic and social development. Developed in Mongolia over a four–year period by Pact, PISA adapts a well developed family of Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) tools for today's information–intensive economy. The PISA Action Guide systematically introduces and explains the concepts and strategies needed to make well informed, data–based decisions while empowering key stakeholders in the process. |
Civil Society
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Fraud Prevention Handbook – Part of Pact Zimbabwe's Best Practices Series, which aims at providing guidelines for effective leadership of CSOs, this handbook gives a concise overview of fraud as an aspect of corruption: definitions, vulnerabilities, consequences, indicators and prevention strategies. |
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CSO Evolution handbook – Part of Pact Zimbabwe's Best Practices Series, which aims at providing guidelines for effective leadership of CSOs, this handbook gives an overview of the ideal values and principles of CSOs and their role in society. |
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Community Mobilization Manual – A guide for community mobilizers that identifies key steps in the community mobilization process and stresses the role and responsibility of the community leader. This guide to Community Mobilization was adapted from training materials utilized by Pact Tanzania and grew out Pact's experience in implementing the Tanzania Advocacy Partnership Program (TAPP) and Pact's work with faith based institutions. |
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Civil Society and Advocacy – This manual outlines ways that civil society and citizens can be involved in the political process and work in partnership with government to create policies and laws. This manual is also based on Pact's experience implementing the Tanzania Advocacy Partnership Program (TAPP). |
Democracy and Governance
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Survival is the First Freedom: Applying Democracy & Governance Approaches to HIV/AIDS – This toolkit is intended to assist current efforts to scale up responses to the HIV/AIDS pandemic and increase access to prevention and care services through collaboration at individual, community and national levels. It is designed for use by donor organizations, civil society, government and the private sector. Policy, Law and Governance in Tanzania – A highly illustrated manual that describes the role of law, public policy, and how laws are made in Tanzania. This guide to Policy, Law and Governance in Tanzania was adapted from Pact Tanzania's Legislative Roadmap: A Guide for Civil Society Organizations in Tanzania. The information and production of this material was a participatory process with representatives from civil society in Tanzania. |
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The Legislative Road Map: A Guide for Civil Society Organizations in Tanzania – The legislative roadmap provides an overview of Tanzanian law, public policy, and legal and institutional structures of the government. It defines the terms law and public policies, and explains their sources and how they are made. It provides information on how they relate to each other, but more importantly, how civil society organizations can use the information to influence change, and the most effective points for civil society to work within existing government structures. The Legislative Roadmap is printed in basic English and the national language, Kiswahili, and contains many visuals and a glossary of terms to make it comprehensible and user–friendly. Part One: Policy, Law and Governance; Part Two: Civil Society and the Law Making Process |
Financial Management
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Core Costs and NGO Sustainability – A study and report to assist the NGO community to attain financial stability through good business practices and understand indirect cost rates in order to compete for donor funding. Also available in Spanish and French. |
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Estructuracion de Costos – Conceptos y Metodologia – Concepts and methodologies for cost construction as an integral part of good financial management processes. Currently available in Spanish only. |
HIV/AIDS
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Building Monitoring Evaluation and Reporting Systems for HIV/AIDS Programs – The goal of this workbook is to present MER in its most basic and useable form. It is geared particularly to those local NGOs already implementing HIV/AIDS programs and with little time to meet the increase in demand for monitoring and evaluation. The authors have taken pains to eliminate jargon and simplify the structures that often defeat MER systems, even when in the hands of more experienced organizations. The manual includes indicator reporting and monitoring requirements for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. |
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Engaging local civil society – This paper draws on an extensive literature review of local NGO engagement, the direct experience of Pact's rapid response HIV/AIDS grants program known as Community REACH, and formal and informal interviews with the Pact Community REACH grantees that are highlighted in this paper. While this paper is not intended to offer a comprehensive view of all successful local partner engagement methodologies and models, we hope that the insights into effective funding we have gained and lessons we have learned through Pact's Community REACH program will assist other organizations to successfully engage local partners and provide guidance to donors and national decision–making bodies. |
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Snapshots - Ten Lives Affected by HIV/AIDS
This publications shares stories about the people at the center of the HIV epidemic – the individuals served by the local organizations receiving grants through the Community REACH project.
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Snapshots II: Local Heroes
This publication highlights the profiles of nine remarkable people who epitomize the extraordinary cross-section of health workers and volunteers engaged in the day-to-day fight against HIV through the Community REACH project. |
Media
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Media Guide: A Handbook for Tanzanian Civil Society – The Tanzania Advocacy Partnership Program (TAPP) program launched the first ever Media Guide: A Handbook for Tanzanian Civil Society. This Media Guide is about working with the media. For civil society organizations involved in advocacy work, this means practical ways of working with reporters, journalists and broadcasters. |
Organizational Capacity Assessment
Peace Building
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Peace Committee Training Guide – A comprehensive guide for capacity building of peace committees in Sudan. The training modules are of value to both trainers and peace committee members. It aims to strengthen the organizational capacity of the peace committee as well as the conflict transformation skills of its members. |
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