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Guides for the World Youth Movement for Democracy Digital Security and Privacy for Human Rights Defenders http://www.frontlinedefenders.org/esecman This guide was written especially for human rights defenders in the evolving world of online activism. It explains the different risks for computers and the Internet, and offers ideas for how to address these. It also explores this issues theoretically in terms of universal freedoms. Available in English, Spanish, and Viatnamese. Namibia Institute for Democracy's Guide for Financial Management of NGOs www.nid.org.na/pdf/publications/Financial%20training%20manual.pdf This guide is intended to assist organizations in their financial management functions. The guide has been developed using input from numerous training sessions with NGOs. It covers issues such as accounting systems, budgeting, financial reporting, staff administration, and audits. Protection Manual for Human Rights Defenders http://www.frontlinedefenders.org/manuals/protection This manual was written to help provide human rights defenders with additional knowledge and some tools that may be useful for improving their understanding of security and protection. The manual will hopefully support training for security and protection and will help defenders undertake their own risk assessments and define the role of security and procedures to suit their particular situations. Guide to Key Resources for Funding Peace and Conflict Work http://internationalpeaceandconflict.ning.com/profiles/blogs/guide-to-key-resources-for Some key resource for obtaining funding for on the ground work. Funding can come from a number of resources. Examples include: self-generated funds, foundations, governments, inter-governmental organizations, and private sector. This guide provides ideas of funding sources as well as ways to connect with many different options. Digitactive Introduction to Facebook Activism http://www.digiactive.org/wp-content/uploads/digiactive_facebook_activism.pdf DigiActive is proud to announce this, its first guide. Written by DigiActive Lead Researcher, it’s a quick introduction on how to use Facebook in your activism campaign and includes real examples of Facebook campaigns from around the world (including Egypt and Burma). Digiactive Guide to Twitter Activism http://www.digiactive.org/wp-content/uploads/digiactive_twitter_guide_v1-0.pdf Following the protests in Moldova in 2009, the value of Twitter as a tool for activism had become even more prominent. DigiActive, an organization dedicated to helping grassroots activist around the world, put together this guide on Twitter Activism to help more people learn its value. Since Moldova brought Twitter more attention, DigiActive saw the need to create a single comprehensive tool kit with this guide. Blog for a Cause! The Global Voices Guide to Blog Advocacy http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/projects/guide-blog-for-a-cause/ Global Voices Advocacy is pleased to release this manual, the second of several planned publications designed to educate activist on topics of circumventing internet filtering, anonymous blogging and effective use of Internet-tools in campaigns for change. The Blog for a Cause! Global Voices Guide explains how activists can use blogs as part of campaigns. Its purpose is to inform and inspire! It is available in English, Spanish, French, Arabic and Chinese at the link provided above. Steps to Transforming Evaluation Practice for Social Change (STEPS)- Program Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Resource http://www.stepstoolkit.org/ If you are working to affect complex social and health problems, especially in the field of sexual and reproductive health rights, then this is the resource for you. Designed to help activists with program planning, monitoring and an evaluation toolkit, the STEPS Resource is a valuable resource that applies a rights-based social justice perspective to program development and evaluation. Peacemaker’s Toolkit- U.S. Institute for Peace’s best practices handbooks on key aspects of mediation and peacemaking. http://www.usip.org/resources/peacemaker-s-toolkit This Toolkit was designed by the US Institute for Peace in collaboration with the UN Mediation Support Unit. It is a series of “best practices” handbooks on key aspects of mediation and peacemaking. Both a resource for experienced mediation practitioners/negotiators and students and policymakers, the Peacemakers Toolkit is a valuable reference to have bookmarked. Elections and Conflict Prevention- A Guide to Analysis, Planning and Programming http://www.undp.org/publications/Elections_and_Conflict_Prevention.pdf This guide was designed by the UNDP as a knowledge product for practitioners in the field of governance and electoral assistance. It identifies strategic approaches and forms of programming to help with anticipating and preventing violent conflict that often accompanies elections. The Guide provides its readers with practical options and tools for program design, early warning and conflict tracking. Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation- Human Rights and Conflict Transformation http://www.berghof-handbook.net/dialogue-series/no.-9-human-rights-and-conflict-transformation/ This is the ninth installment of a dialogue series in the Berghof Handbook for Conflict Resolution by Berghof Conflict Research. The contributors of this piece aim to “go beyond the divide and polarizing language of ‘peace versus justice’ in order to gain clearer understanding of potential—and limits—of bringing together human rights and conflict transformation in specific contexts.” The web site also provides other relevant guides for human rights defenders and researchers. The Albert Einstein Institute Guide on “Self-Liberation: A Guide to Strategic Planning for Action to End a Dictatorship or Other Oppression” http://www.aeinstein.org/selflib/SelfLiberation.pdf This is a strategic planning guide designed to assist people in planning a grand plan to achieve liberation from oppression and to build a more free and democratic system. Not only for people facing internal dictatorships, the guide is meant to be used by anyone facing oppression. Included are references to selected published readings for additional coverage of topics. ICT for Peace Foundation: ICT for the prevention of mass atrocity crimes http://ict4peace.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/ICTs-for-the-Prevention-of-Mass-Atrocity-Crimes1.pdf ICT, or Information and Communications Technologies, is becoming more and more broadly used in peace building platforms. As this occurs, the complexity of issues addressed by ICT also increases. The guide provides examples of when countries have failed to take early action against mass violence. This brief outlines the use of ICT in preventing and mitigating genocidal violence and mass atrocity crimes.