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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- Policy paper
This policy brief explores how addressing gender-based violence (GBV) can enhance the effectiveness of climate change programmes and policies. It presents emerging good practices and recommendations for policymakers and practitioners to more…
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- Evidence digest, Policy paper
This policy brief looks at the different drivers of digitalisation from the perspective of aid recipients, humanitarian and government in North East Nigeria. It explores obstacles these actors face in delivering programmes in an inclusive and…
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This Knowledge for Development and Diplomacy (K4DD) rapid evidence review explores the drivers of gender-based violence (GBV) in migration across Latin America. It provides an overview of the factors influencing migration-related decisions,…
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- Policy paper
This resource sets out how a lack of digital skills increases the challenges already faced by women. It provides recommendations on how to overcome barriers to women participating in businesses relying on digital activities. It uses examples from…
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- Evidence/literature review
This evidence review explores the relationship between urbanisation and extreme poverty. It provides a high-level summary of measures to address extreme poverty in urban areas and to identify areas where further research could add value. The…
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- Guidance document
This resource highlights research focused on understanding the gender differences in the use of electric two-wheelers (E2Ws) in India. It identifies the barriers that restrict and opportunities that enable women’s use of E2Ws. The cities of Chennai…
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- Multimedia, Podcast
This podcast shares lessons learned during the process of establishing the Equality Fund. It explains how the experiences of feminist movement actors were incorporated into the design of the fund and sets out new ideas for the role of the government…
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- Guidance document
This resource from the Work and Opportunities for Women helpdesk (WOW helpdesk) 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…
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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…
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- Report
This report from the Work and Opportunities for Women helpdesk (WOW helpdesk) examines the intersections between gender equality, women’s economic empowerment and food security. It explores the following areas:links between gender equality, women’s…
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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- Guidance document
This is a set of three resources from the Disability Inclusion Helpdesk (DI HD) on how to make social protection programmes accessible and effective for people with disabilities. These resources explain why it is important that people with…
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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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- Fact sheet
This short resource from the Disability Inclusion Helpdesk (DI HD) 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…
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- Policy paper
This policy brief provides an evidence review of literature focusing on the intersectional risks facing adolescents in the low- and middle-income countries due to climate change. The resource sets out practice in meaningfully including young people…
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- Guidance document
This resource provides guidance on how companies can consider gender equality and social inclusion in the clean energy business. This guide is aimed at the companies who want to make sure their operations are inclusive. It provides step-by-step…
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- Evidence/literature review, Report
This report sets out the prevalence of stigma and discrimination faced by persons with disabilities and their families in Malawi. It shares findings from a research study on the potential of Para sport for addressing disability stigma and provides a…
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- Policy paper
This policy brief examines the impact of flexible work arrangements on female labour force participation and gender norms in West Bengal, India. Through a field experiment with 1,670 households, the study finds that job flexibility significantly…
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- Evaluation, Lessons from a programme
This think piece explores the role of women’s rights organisations (WROs) in creating enabling environments for girls’ education and challenging harmful gender norms. It examines the constraints WROs faced and how they were overcome, their impact on…
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- Guidance document, Tools and templates
This resource aims to help poor people living in urban areas to understand climate change in simple and relatable ways. It explains what climate change is and how it impacts people differently depending on their socio-economic circumstances. It is…
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- Graphic resource, Multimedia
This infographic has been developed to support those working on designing and delivering social protection activities by highlighting the key issues relating to gender equality and social inclusion and why it’s important for social protection policy…