This manual explains clearly the basic concepts around Financial Capacity, Plans and Budgets, and gives a detailed explanation of Financial Management. It includes a glossary and bookkeeping tools.
Understand the problem and how your NGO can offer a good package of help. Thanks to Abdinasir for this translation. » Download from the Library
Hesperian has a new resource, A Community Guide to Environmental Health , (free download in parts) free to poor communities around the world through the no-cost download (full download) on their website . If you do not know this website, pay it a visit! They have great materials. And please spread the word!
Consider ‘ Stepping Stones ‘, a training package with a 240-page manual and a 70-minute workshop video.
We have received a paper on silicosis from Aung Ko Ko, now with UNDP in Myanmar (Burma) and with a background in Public Health. He reminds us of all the occupational diseases which continue to cripple and kill in the Developing Countries. The West had silicosis and other killers of the Industrial Revolution, illnesses like mill fever and phossy jaw that went away with Trades Unions and forward-thinking legislation, with laws and inspections and owners (occasionally) imprisoned. But for the workers of Myanmar still it goes on. > Poverty & occupational health: Silicosis
When children are abducted the links of their citizenship get broken. These links need to be repaired in order for them to become active, valuable and meaningful members of the community again. Margaret Angucia’s 2010 thesis, Broken Citizenship: Formerly abducted children and their social reintegration in northern Uganda (308 pages), differs from other publications in that it presents the subject from the perspectives of the children themselves and the community.
Our comprehensive manual for startups, How to Build a Good Small NGO , is now available in French ( Comment Construire une Bonne Petite ONG ). Colleagues in the Arab world have carried out a study into issues and useful approaches in the field of Domestic Violence. You can read their report, Arabic domestic violence .