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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- 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…
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- Evidence/literature review
This resource from the Work and Opportunities for Women helpdesk (WOW helpdesk) 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…
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- Evidence/literature review, Lessons from a programme, Policy paper
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 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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- 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…
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- Lessons from a programme, Multimedia, Video
This video from the Knowledge, Evidence and Learning for Development (K4D) programme focuses on mental health. It discusses the latest evidence on community-based mental health work, and explains an approach called BasicNeeds for mental health in…
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- Video, Multimedia
This 1.36 minute video shares experiences of the barriers faced by people with disability when accessing healthcare services. It explores different types of barriers, such as mobility, access to transportation, attitudes of healthcare professionals…
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- Video, Multimedia
This 3.25-minute video explains how the Girls Education Challenge initiative supports girls in accessing education. It explains the international commitments made to advance access to education for girls, why it’s important for girls to have access…
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- Guidance document
This resource focuses on safeguarding people with disabilities and mental health conditions in humanitarian and development programmes. It was written in collaboration with people with disabilities. The resource contains three parts:definitions…
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- Report
This report reviews existing technical guidance on ethical and equitable inclusion of marginalised groups in humanitarian health research. Commissioned by the International Rescue Committee, it identifies gaps in current research standards and…