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Advocacy

	Grassroots Advocacy Handbook – This handbook is designed to provide local–level communities with the steps required to conduct basic advocacy activities. It was developed in direct collaboration with a variety of local Cambodian communities that have successfully conducted their own advocacy campaigns. The handbook addresses topics such as problem identification, collecting information and evidence, building community ownership and consensus, and explains the types of advocacy tools suitable for use at a local level.

	Advocacy Handbook: A Practical Guide to Increasing Democracy in Cambodia – The goal of this guide is to provide practical information on strategies and techniques for current and future advocates. It also can be used to educate those interested in advocacy. It is the companion to the publication Advocacy in Cambodia, which analyzes Cambodia's advocacy campaigns, lessons learned and best practices based on eight sectors, which available on the Pact Cambodia website.

	The Advocacy Expert Series – This series is a set of educational publications developed by the Advocacy and Policy Program at Pact Cambodia that explore the principles, strategies, and techniques of effective advocacy campaigns. All five modules are also available in Khmer from the Advocacy Publications page on Pact Cambodia's site. Titles in the series include: Advocacy Expert Series Module 1: Advocacy Campaign Management Advocacy Expert Series Module 2: Building Relationships with Government Advocacy Expert Series Module 3: Working with the Media Advocacy Expert Series Module 4: Building and Maintaining Coalitions Advocacy Expert Series Module 5: Advocacy through Legal Services

Capacity Building

The PISA ACTION Guide: Community–Driven Tools for Data Collection and Decision Making – Participatory Information Systems Appraisal (PISA) represents a shift in our predominant way of thinking about information for economic and social development. Developed in Mongolia over a four–year period by Pact, PISA adapts a well developed family of Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) tools for today's information–intensive economy. The PISA Action Guide systematically introduces and explains the concepts and strategies needed to make well informed, data–based decisions while empowering key stakeholders in the process.

Civil Society

	Fraud Prevention Handbook – Part of Pact Zimbabwe's Best Practices Series, which aims at providing guidelines for effective leadership of CSOs, this handbook gives a concise overview of fraud as an aspect of corruption: definitions, vulnerabilities, consequences, indicators and prevention strategies.

	CSO Evolution handbook – Part of Pact Zimbabwe's Best Practices Series, which aims at providing guidelines for effective leadership of CSOs, this handbook gives an overview of the ideal values and principles of CSOs and their role in society.

	Community Mobilization Manual – A guide for community mobilizers that identifies key steps in the community mobilization process and stresses the role and responsibility of the community leader. This guide to Community Mobilization was adapted from training materials utilized by Pact Tanzania and grew out Pact's experience in implementing the Tanzania Advocacy Partnership Program (TAPP) and Pact's work with faith based institutions.

	Civil Society and Advocacy – This manual outlines ways that civil society and citizens can be involved in the political process and work in partnership with government to create policies and laws. This manual is also based on Pact's experience implementing the Tanzania Advocacy Partnership Program (TAPP).

Democracy and Governance

	Our Country Our Future – This handbook is designed to educate all public officials and individuals vested with an elective public office in Cambodia about what corruption is and how to fight it. This handbook also contains information that will be useful to all members of the public. It was produced as part of the Clean Hand campaign provides education and awareness activities aimed at reducing corruption in Cambodia.

	The Legislative Road Map: A Guide for Civil Society Organizations in Tanzania – The legislative roadmap provides an overview of Tanzanian law, public policy, and legal and institutional structures of the government. It defines the terms law and public policies, and explains their sources and how they are made. It provides information on how they relate to each other, but more importantly, how civil society organizations can use the information to influence change, and the most effective points for civil society to work within existing government structures. The Legislative Roadmap is printed in basic English and the national language, Kiswahili, and contains many visuals and a glossary of terms to make it comprehensible and user–friendly. Part I: Policy, Law and Governance in Tanzania Part II: Civil Society and the Law Making Process

	Local Governance Barometer – A manual designed to provide guidance for implementation of each step in the Local Governance Barometer (LGB) process. The LGB was designed to measure the effectiveness of governance. The Impact Alliance, an international network of international NGO's supporting capacity building in civil society, designed the Local Governance Barometer (LGB) to quantitatively express the measure of good governance of a given situation, using a participatory approach, and involving members of different sectors in society.

Financial Management

	Core Costs and NGO Sustainability – A study and report to assist the NGO community to attain financial stability through good business practices and understand indirect cost rates in order to compete for donor funding. Also available in Spanish and French.

	Estructuracion de Costos – Conceptos y Metodologia – Concepts and methodologies for cost construction as an integral part of good financial management processes. Currently available in Spanish only.

HIV/AIDS

	Understanding and Challenging Stigma Toolkit: Young People and Stigma – Pact Tanzania worked with the AIDS Alliance to develop two training modules relating to children and stigma. The first is entitled "Young People and Stigma" and provides exercises to help young people identify the particular stigma issues that they face; analyzes the causes and consequences of stigma; addresses the link between stigma, gender and sexuality; and empowers young people with skills to cope with stigma and build strategies for change.

	Understanding and Challenging Stigma Toolkit: Children and Stigma – The second training module in this series, focusing on children of various ages, aims to help explore and understand the different ways in which children are stigmatized and to look at strategies to begin to change attitudes and experiences. Exercises are designed for both children and adults.

	Building Monitoring Evaluation and Reporting Systems for HIV/AIDS Programs The goal of this workbook is to present MER in its most basic and useable form. It is geared particularly to those local NGOs already implementing HIV/AIDS programs and with little time to meet the increase in demand for monitoring and evaluation. The authors have taken pains to eliminate jargon and simplify the structures that often defeat MER systems, even when in the hands of more experienced organizations. The manual includes indicator reporting and monitoring requirements for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.

	Engaging local civil society – This paper draws on an extensive literature review of local NGO engagement, the direct experience of Pact's rapid response HIV/AIDS grants program known as Community REACH, and formal and informal interviews with the Pact Community REACH grantees that are highlighted in this paper. While this paper is not intended to offer a comprehensive view of all successful local partner engagement methodologies and models, we hope that the insights into effective funding we have gained and lessons we have learned through Pact's Community REACH program will assist other organizations to successfully engage local partners and provide guidance to donors and national decision–making bodies.

	Snapshots - Ten Lives Affected by HIV/AIDS This publications shares stories about the people at the center of the HIV epidemic – the individuals served by the local organizations receiving grants through the Community REACH project.

	Snapshots II - Local Heroes This publication highlights the profiles of nine remarkable people who epitomize the extraordinary cross-section of health workers and volunteers engaged in the day-to-day fight against HIV through the Community REACH project.

Organizational Development

	Introduction to Organizational Capacity Development – A training curriculum pulling together Pact's OD tools from programs around the world. The module covers Pact's approach to capacity building, key concepts in adult and organizational learning, a typical OD intervention from start to finish, and a range of tools and delivery methods for OD services. This is the first in a series.

	NGO Leadership - This training curriculum will provide partner and client organizations with a deeper understanding of the importance of leadership and its potential to impact service delivery, relationships with partners, and staff morale. With this tool, organizations will assess their leadership capacity at the individual and organizational levels, and establish peer mentoring relationships for ongoing executive leadership support. Part of Pact's Learning Series of publications.

	Strengthening & Measuring Advocacy Capacity of Civil Society Organizations – Part of Pact Zimbabwe's Best Practices Series, which aims at providing guidelines for effective leadership of CSOs, this handbook helps CSOs increase their advocacy capacity.

	Guide for Organizational Self–Assessment and Action Planning – Part of Pact Zimbabwe's Best Practices Series, which aims at providing guidelines for effective leadership of CSOs, this handbook helps guide CSOs through a reflective and evaluative process in order to assess advocacy performance.

Peace Building

	Peace Committee Training Guide – A comprehensive guide for capacity building of peace committees in Sudan. The training modules are of value to both trainers and peace committee members. It aims to strengthen the organizational capacity of the peace committee as well as the conflict transformation skills of its members.
	Community Peace Building (Nepal) – A guide to community peace building and connecting with others working to build peace, based on experiences and case studies from rural Nepal.
	Community Peace building in Nepal: Lessons Learned – A report summarizing views on community peace building in Nepal, gathered during interviews with stakeholders working in peace building through grassroots organizations, non-governmental organizations, government, the donor community and as independent experts. The report offers a snapshot of issues at a crucial time for peace in Nepal’s history.