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Catholic Social Teaching on Care for Creation and Stewardship of the Earth

Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development (2013) C1

The Catholic Church has a well-documented tradition of Care for Creation and Stewardship of the Earth. This resource includes elements of Catholic teaching that highlight this tradition. This resource is intended to serve as an introduction on this issue; it is not comprehensive.

Applied research concerning inclusion of persons with disabilities in systems of social protection

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Technische Universität München; REPOA GIZ; German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) (2015) C1

Social Protection Policy Analysis, Tanzania

Resource Library: National Malaria SBC Strategy Development Package

RBM Partnership to End Malaria Social and Behaviour Change Working Group; Breakthrough ACTION (2025) C1

National malaria social and behavior change (SBC) and social and behavior change communication (SBCC) strategies are effective for describing the priorities and focus of a country’s malaria behavi ... more

The Social Cash Transfer Programme (SCTP)

Ministry of Gender, Children and Community Development of the Government of Malawi, with support from UNICEF Ministry of Gender, Children and Community Development of the Government of Malawi, with support from UNICEF (2022) CC2

The Social Cash Transfer Programme (SCTP)—locally known in Chichewa as Mtukula Pakhomo—is a non-conditional critical safety net for the most vulnerable, ultra-poor Malawians. By providing monthly cash transfers to over 1.3 million people annuall ... more

The Family and Disability in Ghana: Highlighting Gaps in Achieving Social Inclusion

Peprah Opoku,M.; et al. Disability, CBR & Inclusive Development Journal (DCIDJ) (2017) CC

There are social and environmental barriers faced by persons with disabilities which have been reported in literature. In discussing these barriers, attention is yet to be given to the support from families to members with disabilities. This study a ... more

Stronger Together: Building Individual and Social Resilience to Cope with the Impacts of Natural Hazard Events

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) (2019) CC

Under the theme “Stronger Together”, the campaign aims to offer information and strategies to assist communities in the region in better coping with the psychological impact of adverse events before, during and after a disaster situation. It also aims to raise awareness to reduce the stigma abou ... more

The National Integrated Early Childhood Development Policy of Uganda

Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development, Uganda (2016) C1

The National Integrated Early Childhood Development Policy Action Plan (2016-2021) of Uganda
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Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development, Uganda (2016) C1

The National Integrated Early Childhood Development Policy of Uganda. Popular Version

Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development, Uganda (2016) C1

The investment case for social protection in Malawi

Ministry of Gender, Children and Community Development; Unicef (2022) C_UNICEF

There has been a rapid expansion of cash-based, social protection programmes in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in recent years as Governments increasingly realise the enormous benefits cash transfers offer (World Bank, 2018). In fact, as an investment in ... more

Catholic Social Training on Migration

Rowlands, A. Durham University (2018) C2

a) the background to the development of the Church social teaching on migration b) some of the additional resources that lie within the wider social ... more

Social inclusion and inclusive education

Marsela Robo Academicus (International Scientific Journal) (2014) CC

The key question addressed in this article is social inclusion, as an opposite concept of social exclusion. The author provides a historical of social ... more

Rwanda's Performance in Addressing Social Determinants of Health and Intersectoral Action: A Review against the Five Themes of the Rio Political Declaration

Ministry of Health, Rwanda (2017) C2

To understand the patterns of Rwanda’s achievements in health development, it is important to explore how Rwanda addresses the Social Determinants of Health (SDH) particularly those related to rou ... more

Africa, WASH, and the Millennium Development Goals: A Local Systems Case Study of How South Africa Achieved MDG Target 7c

Muller, Helgard et al. USAID (2017) C1

Democratic dispensation in 1994 created a political and social platform that reshaped life in South Africa. There was a surge in common belief that the inequity and wrong of Apartheid should and could be rectified. Equity of access to water and sani ... more

Child development: risk factors for adverse outcomes in developing countries

Walker, S.; Wachs, T.; Gardner, J. et al. (2007) C1

Poverty and associated health, nutrition, and social factors prevent at least 200 million children in developing countries from attaining their developmental potential. We review the evidence linking compromised ... more

Catholic Social Teaching and Ecology Fact Sheet

McCarthy J. Social Justice Secretariat (2011) C1

In the light of growing environmental concerns we are witnessing an integration of ecology into the fabric of Catholic social thought. Catholic social teaching (CST) has traditionally focused on eco ... more

COVID-19 and Human Development: Exploring global preparedness and vulnerability

reliefweb (2020) C2

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) today released two new data dashboards that highlight the huge disparities in countries’ abilities to cope with and recover from the COVID-19 crisis. The pandemic is more than a global health emer ... more

Human Mobility, Shared Opportunity: A Review of the 2009 Human Development Report and the Way Ahead. Summary

UN Development Programme UNDP (2020) C1

Human Mobility, Shared Opportunities recommends expanding legal pathways, reducing transaction costs on remittances, guaranteeing migrants’ rights, especially for women, fostering integration and social cohesion, and mobilizing diasporas. With for ... more

The Development Impact of the War in Ukraine: Initial projections

UNDP (2022) C1

Early data estimates suggest that 90% of the Ukrainian population could be facing poverty and extreme economic vulnerability should the war deepen, setting the country – and the region – back decades and leaving deep social and economic scars fo ... more

Social Impact Assessment of Livelihood Promotion Programmes in Coastal Kenya - Advocacy Brief

Yvonne Kuhnke, Sellah Lusweti, Prof. Halimu Shauri & Elisabeth Wacker Technical University of Munich & CBM (2016) C1

This exploratory study carried out in Coastal Kenya by TUM - funded and supported by CBM – draws attention to monetisable social factors in the measurement of impacts of livelihood promotion. When NGOs in ... more