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’.
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 refers to a range of atrocities, including but not limited to hate crimes, dehumanising and fearmongering rhetoric, corrective sexual violence and mass identity-based violence. It sets out the heightened risk of discrimination and violence many LGBTQI+ people face, providing examples from a range of countries and recent contexts.
This resource outlines factors that influence how effective teaching is for marginalised adolescent girls. It is designed to help programmes and policy makers improve their approach to teacher professional development through providing guidance on how to strengthen teacher development programmes. This includes guidance on three elements of teacher development: organisation and delivery, content, and support mechanisms.
This resource is a research toolkit intended to be used to help prevent child marriage and respond to the needs of married and divorced girls and boys. It focuses on promoting action and inclusion, and looks at the threats and opportunities girls and boys can face in relation to marriage as well as their decision-making power. The resource draws on existing toolkits and research with the aim of better understanding how to prevent child marriage, and how to improve married boys’ and girls’ lives.
This resource provides a summary of recent evidence and research relating to female genital mutilation (FGM), generated through the Evidence to End FGM Programme. It describes FGM and sets out how this evidence and research has been used to influence global action to end FGM. The resource also provides key lessons for FGM work going forward, including for the health sector and law makers, and shares a list of other key resources.
This resource from the Knowledge, Evidence and Learning for Development (K4D) Helpdesk, looks at the opportunities for political empowerment created during and after conflict for women and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ+) people. It also looks at the challenges created in these settings.
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:
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 their safeguarding policies and practices safe for all LGBTQI+ staff.
The resource covers 4 main areas:
This resource explains the challenges people with disabilities can experience in humanitarian settings. These include barriers to accessing humanitarian assistance, protection risks, and stigmatisation and discrimination.
The resource sets out recommendations on how to improve disability inclusion in humanitarian response, including for people with disabilities experiencing intersecting forms of discrimination based on their identity and impairment type. It also provides a list of further guidance and resources.
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 contexts. It sets out how to respond to different needs that emerge during crises and shares recommendations on how organisations can monitor their activities throughout implementation of their policy, programming and humanitarian response .