The Fundamentals of Working with the U. S. Government

Effective practices for learning, action, and change; This manual is intended to help people who care about human rights to become effective educators, able to share both their passion and their knowledge. To further human rights education in all its many forms, The Human Rights Education Handbook lays out the basics: why, for whom, what, where, who, and how. Contents include:Part I: An Introduction to Human Rights Education; Part II: The Art of Facilitation; Part III: Essential Components of Human Rights Education; Part IV: Methodologies for Human Rights Education; Part V: Planning Presentations for Human Rights Education; Part VI: Evaluating Human Rights Programs; Part VII: Human Rights Education Resources; Index of Methods, Techniques, and Activities

The Most Significant Change (MSC) technique is a participatory M&E approach that allows communities to share their learning in a way that is comfortable to them and allows project participants and implementers to learn together through project implementation.

Toolbook describes the generic partnering process from inception to conclusion, provides ""stand alone"" tools to enable practitioners to develop effective partnerships and includes information about the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition and food fortification.

A facilitator's guide to partnership dialogue; This manual is a guide to facilitating constructive discussion and dialogue with partners. It is based on the idea that partnership is a process and an ongoing journey. Rather than a set of tools to apply to partners, this manual lays out a process for CRS and partners to jointly explore challenges faced. It contains sessions that are intended to be creative, forward thinking, honest and fun and help guide you through a process of tackling some possibilities and challenges of partnership. It gives suggestions for participatory designs for use in any workshop context and ideas for using sessions in a variety of applications. Facilitation notes, handouts and flip chart content are included with each session design.

Presentation on improving the quality of programs and outcomes. Describes why quality improvement (QI) is important; three fundamentals of quality improvement and assurance, andthe relationship between planning, monitoring and evaluation, and QI.

Document assists frontline health workers in using the data collected at health facilities to solve common problems in service delivery and improve their response to community needs.

10 Steps to Hiring and Managing Sub-Partners; NPI

Nonprofit organizations are now continuously being challenged to be more strategic in their communications efforts. Communications activities must add up to more than a series of isolated events such as the dissemination of an occasional publication or press release. Being strategic requires that nonprofits be more deliberate, innovative, savvy, and less reactive in their communications practice. Nonprofits are encouraged to regard communications as essential to their overall success and integrate it throughout their organizations.Nonprofits need ways to better understand their current strategic communications performance and capacity, and to gain a realistic sense of what is possible in terms of developing their communications functions. Strategic communications audits are one tool that can help to meet this need.

Document contains the Legal Resources Center's analysis and plan for advocating the adoption of the rights-based approach to Action Aid Ghana (AAG).