NGO-in-a-box offers a set of peer reviewed and selected Free and Open Source software, tailored to the needs of NGOs. It provides them not only with software, but also with implementation scenarios and relevant materials to support this.
> http://base.ngoinabox.org/
Are you working in the field of Early Childhood Development? Or in a related field – health, education, nutrition? Child Development is important for us all because the future of every country is bound up with the quality of its future adults. We need them to be as healthy as possible, as bright and hard-working and productive as possible.
Are you signed up for The Drum Beat ? The most recent issue is about recognising and rewarding successes. It also highlights a few programmes that champion innovative ideas with rewards that are not just money.
A new 5th edition of Bryan Walker’s plain-speaking, straightforward guide to the world of online learning is now available for download from our Library. This book will help you plan your own study programme. It provides strategies to overcome problems, techniques to reinforce the learning process, and support for those wishing to embark on a research project.
Agromisa makes practical knowledge on sustainable agriculture available to farmers in the South. Its main publications are the Agrodoks – practical booklets written in clear, simple language, intended for extension workers and field workers of intermediary organisations. Recent additions to the series include Entering the organic export market , Snail farming and Small-scale mushroom cultivation , the latter translated into Swahili. The Agrodoks and other Agromisa publications are free to download. Once in their website, click on “Search Publications”. Agromisa also offer a free Question & Answer service !
Chris Laming is in the Networklearning support committee. He has run courses in Australia for men who use domestic violence. The course is available to download from the Networklearning Library. Last summer he had the good chance to visit an NGO working in a programme against Gender Based Violence (GBV) in Mombasa, Kenya. The NGO is Coast Women in Development . He emailed us:
We are delighted to offer a new edition of our popular guest publication about employment in the humanitarian sector. ‘Better Ways to Succeed in Aid and Development Work’ is a thoroughly informative guide to ‘getting started, getting in and getting on’. » Download directly from the Library Also newly revised, including extra information and appendices: » Better Ways to Stay Healthy in Asian Tropics . Thanks to Bryan Walker for providing these.