Resource library: Advancing equalities
Welcome to our comprehensive resource collection dedicated to advancing equalities.
Here, you'll find a range of different resources tailor-made for individuals, organisations or collectives striving to promote gender equality and social inclusion. Whether you’re exploring policy, gaining information on programming, or simply building your own knowledge, we’ve got you covered with fact sheets, policy papers, guidance notes, evidence reviews, and practical tips and tools.
But first, let’s talk about what equality really means. It’s about fairness for all, ensuring that every person, regardless of background, enjoys equal social, economic, political, and legal rights, resources, and opportunities. Everyone deserves a life free from discrimination based on factors like sex, race, disability, age, class, caste, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, and sex characteristics.
Sadly, not everyone experiences the same level of equality. Many people experience greater inequality than others due to various factors, requiring extra support to level the playing field. This includes women and girls, people with disabilities, LGBT+ people, refugees, and internally displaced people, and the poorest and most marginalised within society. Women and girls, for instance, often experience multiple forms for inequality tied to their gender and other, intersecting, areas of identity.
Achieving equality isn’t easy, due to numerous barriers entrenched across society. These stem from individual and collective beliefs and manifest through individual behaviours across the family, institutions and are reinforced within national and international systems and structures that normalise and perpetuate inequality. Social justice movements play a critical role in addressing inequality, mobilising people, and resources, and supporting collective action against discrimination. Examples include women’s rights organisations, organisations of people with disabilities, racial justice movements, organisations representing LGBT+ people, and youth groups.
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- Guidance document, Tools and templates
The Global Innovation Fund uses gender analysis tools to consider each of their investments through a 'gender lens'. This resource is a toolkit that supports the analysis of gender issues for innovations focused specifically on gender impact,…
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- Guidance document
This resource is written for multinational businesses operating in low and middle-income countries that are working to decarbonise. It is designed for businesses that rely on significant numbers of female employees within their supply chains – for…
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- Guidance document
This resource is a guidance note which provides design and implementation considerations for gender-responsive and transformative social protection in crisis contexts. It consolidates existing evidence and short case studies into actionable guidance…
Foundational learning for all: including the most marginalised is possible, pragmatic and a priority
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- Report
This resource is a think piece from the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and the Girls’ Education Challenge. It looks at why the most marginalised must be prioritised in global efforts to ensure foundational learning for all…
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- Training materials
This resource from the Disability Inclusion Helpdesk is a training slide deck for private sector development advisors on how to design and implement disability inclusive private sector development programming. It provides an overview of…
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- Guidance document
This is a set of three resources from the Disability Inclusion Helpdesk on how to make social protection programmes accessible and effective for people with disabilities. These resources explain why it is important that people with disabilities…
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- Guidance document
This guide focuses on disability-inclusive safeguarding in the workplace. It was developed for organisations working in the humanitarian and development sectors. This guide has three sections:definitions of different disabilitiesrisks people…
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- Guidance document, Tools and templates
This resource details the discussions and outcomes from three peer-to-peer round tables run by Inclusive Futures in September 2022, involving project officers from international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) and officers from…
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- Fact sheet
This short resource sets out evidence to show that infrastructure is vital for societal development and economic progress, however the benefits are often not distributed equally. It provides information for policy makers and programme staff on…
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- Report
This resource explains how feminist foreign policies (FFP), feminist development policies (FDP) and international gender strategies impact incidents of violence against women and girls (VAWG). It summarises the commitments on VAWG from a selection…
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- Evidence/literature review
This resource looks at how different international financial institutions (IFIs) frame and approach working on women’s economic empowerment, and the impact of this in practice. It provides information on what is effective in women’s economic…
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- Report
The UK Government has committed to preventing and responding to conflict-related sexual violence and sets out the actions it will take in the UK women, peace and security national action plan 2023-2027.This resource addresses the gap in research on…
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- Evidence/literature review
This resource discusses the global shift towards digitalisation, and how this is driving technical, social and organisational changes. Having the capacity to leverage digital technology has been identified as essential to ensuring individual…
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- Guidance document
This resource from the Knowledge, Evidence and Learning for Development (K4D) programme provides guidance on how to ensure socially excluded people are taken into consideration in crisis settings, including humanitarian and conflict-affected…
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- Evidence/literature review, Lessons from a programme
This resource summarises existing evidence on violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex people (LGBTQI+) people, and shares emerging insights into what works to prevent this kind of violence. It is based on a global…
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- Guidance document
This resource focuses on the safeguarding risks that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex (LGBTQI+) staff face when working in or collaborating with civil society organisations. It makes recommendations for how organisations can make…
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- Tools and templates
This resource pack from the Knowledge, Evidence and Learning for Development (K4D) programme explains how tax policy, administration and research can promote women’s equality and empowerment through being ‘gender aware’. The resource…
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- Tools and templates
This resource shows employers how to make their workplaces inclusive of people with intellectual disabilities. It includes clear guidance on accessible recruitment, hiring, communication at work, and organisational policies. It provides templates…
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- Report
Ethnic minorities in the Eastern Neighbourhood – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine – experience significant challenges related to the quality of political inclusion. This resource from the Knowledge, Evidence and Learning…
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- Report
This resource examines the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex (LGBTQI+) people as important but underrepresented within atrocities research and atrocity prevention policy and practice. The resource…