JRNY Consulting

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🛠️ Kit de Herramientas para el Mañana: Anticipando el Futuro de la Sociedad Civil 📚 Nos encanta ❤️ el Toolkit for Tomorrow del International Civil Society Centre, diseñado para ayudar a las organizaciones de la sociedad civil (OSC) a aumentar su resiliencia, anticipar desafíos futuros y navegar un mundo cada vez más incierto. Este recurso ofrece ejercicios prácticos, marcos estratégicos y metodologías para fortalecer el pensamiento y la acción con visión de futuro. 🔑 Principales Aprendizajes del Toolkit 🌍 Por qué es Importante Pensar en el Futuro: Este kit ayuda a las OSC a adoptar estrategias de previsión para anticipar riesgos, aprovechar oportunidades y generar un impacto a largo plazo. 🛠️ Herramientas Prácticas para la Planificación de Escenarios: Incluye análisis de tendencias, ruedas de futuro e inmersión en escenarios para explorar múltiples futuros posibles y prepararse ante la incertidumbre. 📊 Construcción de Resiliencia Organizacional: Guía a las organizaciones en la transición de respuestas reactivas a crisis hacia una planificación estratégica proactiva, asegurando que sigan siendo ágiles y adaptativas en un entorno volátil. ⚖️ Futuros Colaborativos e Inclusivos: Fomenta métodos participativos para garantizar que las voces diversas den forma al futuro de la sociedad civil, desde los movimientos de base hasta las redes globales. ¡Échale un vistazo! 👇🏾

🛠️ Toolkit for Tomorrow: Anticipating Civil Society Futures 📚 We ❤️ the Toolkit for Tomorrow by the International Civil Society Centre, designed to help civil society organisations (CSOs) increase resilience, anticipate future challenges, and navigate an increasingly uncertain world. This toolkit provides practical exercises, frameworks, and methods to strengthen future-oriented thinking and action. 🔑 Key Takeaways from the Toolkit 🌍 Why Futures Thinking Matters: The toolkit helps CSOs embrace foresight strategies to anticipate risks, leverage opportunities, and shape long-term impact. 🛠️ Practical Tools for Scenario Planning: Includes trend analysis, futures wheels, and scenario immersion to explore multiple possible futures and prepare for uncertainty. 📊 Building Organisational Resilience: Guides organisations in moving from short-term crisis response to proactive, strategic planning, ensuring they stay agile and adaptive in a volatile landscape. ⚖️ Collaborative & Inclusive Futures: Encourages participatory methods to ensure that diverse voices shape the future of civil society—from grassroots movements to global networks. Check it out!👇🏾

🛠️ Engaging Boys and Men in Gender Transformation: The Group Education Manual 📚 We ❤️ this Group Education Manual by EngenderHealth’s ACQUIRE Project and Instituto Promundo —designed to engage boys and men in gender equality, healthy relationships, and violence prevention. Gender norms can reinforce harmful behaviours and limit opportunities for people of different genders—this toolkit provides structured activities, discussions, and reflection exercises to promote positive masculinities and gender equity. At a time when anti-feminist rhetoric is escalating globally, it is crucial to equip men and boys with the tools to challenge harmful gender norms, build respectful relationships, and contribute to gender justice. 🔑 Key Takeaways from the Manual 🌍 Gender Norms & Power Dynamics: The manual challenges harmful gender stereotypes, helping participants explore how masculinity is shaped, reinforced, and can be transformed. 🛠️ Interactive & Participatory Exercises 🔹 Act Like a Man vs. Act Like a Woman – Deconstructing restrictive gender expectations. 🔹 The Talking Stick – A structured approach to active listening and respectful dialogue. 🔹 Healthy & Unhealthy Relationships – Helping men recognise and challenge toxic relationship patterns. 🔹 HIV & STI Prevention – Addressing risk-taking behaviours and sexual health through open discussions. ⚖️ Promoting Accountability & Violence Prevention: Sessions focus on men holding other men accountable, challenging normalised violence, and developing constructive alternatives to aggression and control. 📢 Fatherhood & Caregiving as Pathways to Gender Equality: Encouraging men to be active caregivers, supportive partners, and positive role models in their families and communities. Tackling toxic masculinity, gender-based violence, and unequal power dynamics requires education, dialogue, and systemic change. This manual offers practical tools to ensure men and boys are engaged as allies in gender equality movements. 💬 How is your organisation working to transform masculinities and engage men in gender justice?👇🏾 ‼️ We are dedicated to preserving USAID resources on gender equality, inclusiveness, and social justice, especially as many are being removed. If your organisation holds at-risk materials, we urge you to share, archive, and amplify them. 📣

🛠️ Guide on Inclusive Youth Consultations 📚 We ❤️ this Guide on Inclusive Youth Consultations by Larissa Ahanhanzo and João Souza and the United Network of Young Peacebuilders and the Youth Excel programme at IREX! Meaningful youth engagement is too often tokenistic, with young people treated as participants rather than co-creators in decision-making spaces. This guide provides practical tools to ensure youth are engaged as equal partners in peacebuilding and policymaking. At a time when youth-led movements are shaping global activism but remain sidelined in formal decision-making, this resource is essential for governments, NGOs, and institutions committed to genuine intergenerational collaboration. 🔑 Key Takeaways from the Guide 🌍 Beyond Tokenism: Youth as Co-Creators: Consultations must move beyond symbolic participation—young people must have real influence over decision-making processes and outcomes. 🛠️ Practical Tools for Inclusive Consultations: The guide provides checklists, planning frameworks, and engagement strategies to make consultations accessible, representative, and impactful. 📊 Power Dynamics & Intersectionality Matter: Not all youth experiences are the same. The guide highlights how age discrimination (adultism) intersects with gender, race, disability, and economic background, shaping whose voices get heard. ⚖️ Accountability & Follow-Up Are Essential: Young people should not be left wondering if their input made a difference. The guide outlines validation and follow-up processes to ensure accountability. How is your organisation ensuring that youth engagement is meaningful?👇🏾 ‼️ We are dedicated to preserving USAID resources on gender equality, inclusiveness, and social justice, especially as many are being removed. If your organisation holds at-risk materials, we urge you to share, archive, and amplify them. 📣

🛠️ A Guide for Strengthening Gender Equality & Inclusiveness in Teaching and Learning Materials 📚 We are committed to ensuring that critical USAID resources on gender equality, inclusiveness, and social justice remain accessible, especially as many of these materials are being removed or deprioritised. In times when hard-won progress is at risk, we are making every effort to become a repository for these invaluable resources—so that this knowledge, research, and guidance does not disappear. Education and advocacy is built on evidence, best practices, and lived experiences. By preserving and sharing these materials, we are ensuring that policymakers, educators, and activists continue to have the tools needed to advance gender equality and inclusion in education and beyond. If your organisation has access to USAID resources at risk of being lost, we encourage you to share, archive, and amplify this work. Knowledge must remain a public good. We ❤️ this guide from USAID. It provides practical strategies to develop and evaluate teaching and learning materials that minimise bias, promote equality, and reflect diverse identities and experiences. Education has the power to reinforce or dismantle systemic inequality. This guide equips educators and decision-makers with the tools to create learning environments where all students can thrive. 🔑 Key Takeaways from the Guide 🔑 🌍 Representation Matters: Teaching materials should include equal and diverse representation of women, men, non-binary individuals, ethnic minorities, and people with disabilities, ensuring all learners see themselves reflected in positive, non-stereotypical roles. 🖍️ Illustrations & Language Must Be Inclusive: Visuals and text should challenge traditional gender roles, avoid reinforcing stereotypes, and promote positive portrayals of diverse communities. 📊 Assessing Bias in Learning Materials: The guide includes practical checklists and worksheets to evaluate existing content, ensuring gender-transformative and inclusive narratives in education. ⚖️ Breaking Barriers for Marginalised Learners: By removing stereotypes and incorporating diverse perspectives, education systems can empower all students, particularly those historically excluded or underrepresented. 💬 How is your organisation working towards gender-inclusive education?👇🏾

🛠️ Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (JEDI) Organisational Action Toolkit 📚 "In diversity, there is beauty and there is strength." - Maya Angelou. Achieving Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) is an ethical responsibility and strategic necessity for dismantling systemic inequities. We ❣️ this toolkit from Tolulope Oyetunde, MS, MPH, Adrianna Boulin, and Jeanie Holt. It provides practical tools, assessments, and action steps to help organisations embed racial equity into governance, programmes, partnerships, communications, and advocacy. At a time when structural racism, economic inequality, and political polarisation continue to impact EVERYONE (!), we must lead by example in creating equitable, inclusive, and justice-driven spaces. 🔑 Key Takeaways from the Toolkit 🌍 Why Racial Equity Must Be a Priority: Racism is a root cause of public health, economic, and social disparities. Nonprofits cannot effectively serve communities without addressing structural injustice within their own organisations. 🛠️ Practical Assessments & Actionable Strategies: The toolkit provides five key self-assessments to evaluate JEDI practices across: 🔹 Governance – Building diverse leadership and ensuring decision-making reflects the communities served. 🔹 Mission-Driven Programmes – Embedding JEDI principles into service delivery, programme design, and impact evaluation. 🔹 Partnerships – Creating alliances with organisations and funders that align with racial equity goals. 🔹 Communication – Ensuring inclusive, accessible, and equity-driven internal and external messaging. 🔹 Advocacy – Strengthening the organisation’s role in policy change, community organising, and justice-driven movements. 📢 Moving from Performative to Transformative Action: The toolkit supports organisations in moving beyond statements to implementing concrete policies, accountability measures, and sustainable JEDI frameworks. 💬 How is your organisation continuing to embed JEDI principles into its work? 👇🏾

🛠️ Engaging Men and Boys in the Fight Against SGBV: An Advocacy Toolkit 📚 The fight against Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) cannot be won without engaging men and boys as allies and champions. This Advocacy Toolkit from Olusegun Sangowawa and YouthhubAfrica (with contributions from Tosin Akinbu) provides practical strategies, exercises, and advocacy tools to mobilise men and boys to actively challenge harmful gender norms, masculinities, and social structures that fuel violence against women and girls. 🔑 Key Takeaways from the Toolkit 🌍 Why Engage Men and Boys?: Research shows that men with rigid views on masculinity are more likely to perpetrate violence. Challenging harmful social norms and stereotypes is essential to breaking the cycle of SGBV. 🛠️ Interactive & Participatory Training Tools: Includes role-playing exercises, reflection questions, and group discussions designed to deconstruct masculinity, promote gender equality, and shift harmful norms. 📢 Advocacy Strategies for Change: Outlines peer advocacy, community mobilisation, and policy engagement approaches that empower men to challenge and change societal acceptance of violence against women. ⚖️ Understanding Sexual Consent & Power Dynamics: Provides scenario-based discussions, quizzes, and real-world case studies to educate boys and men on sexual consent, coercion, and accountability. 📊 Media & Policy Engagement for Impact: Guidance on using mass media, social media, lobbying, and coalition-building to influence policy, culture, and community responses to SGBV. 💬 How is your organisation engaging men and boys in the fight against SGBV?👇🏾

🛠️ Managing Anxiety When Political Events Feel Threatening 📚 Uncertainty and instability in political and social landscapes are leaving us feeling anxious, overwhelmed, and afraid. We ❤️🩹 the KonTerra Resilience resource on managing anxiety. At a time of escalating political tensions, human rights rollbacks, and deepening divisions, taking care of our mental well-being is more important than ever. 🔑 Key Takeaways 🌍 Acknowledge the Difficulty: It’s right to feel anger, fear, or grief when political events conflict with your values, challenge your rights or create uncertainty about the future. Recognizing and naming these emotions is the first step in coping effectively. 🛠️ Grounding & Stress-Relief Techniques: Practical exercises like 5-4-3-2-1 grounding, deep breathing, and “zooming out” perspective shifts can help break cycles of rumination and distress. ⚖️ Focus on What You Can Control: Identify what you can control, can influence and must release. This helps manage feelings of powerlessness while allowing you to take meaningful action where possible. 📢 Set Boundaries & Limit Media Exposure: Not every conversation or news update requires your attention. The guide provides strategies for setting boundaries, limiting doom-scrolling, and protecting your mental space. 🤝🏾 Connect & Build Support Networks: Isolation fuels anxiety. Whether it’s trusted friends, community groups, or professional networks, strengthening social connections is essential for emotional resilience. Whether through advocacy, volunteering, mutual aid, or self-care, channelling energy into purposeful action can help regain a sense of control and purpose. ❤️🩹 We are with you. There is space for all the feelings. We will do this together.

🛠️ Co-Production Toolkit: Practical Tools for Shared Decision-Making 📚 We 😍 this Co-Production Toolkit from the Single Homeless Project! It provides practical tools, reflection exercises, and structured activities to help organisations embed co-production, ensuring those with lived experience are central to shaping solutions. 🔑 Key Takeaways from the Toolkit 🌍 Co-Production Is About Power-Sharing: Co-production challenges hierarchical structures and ensures that people with lived experience are actively leading in decision-making processes, not just consulted. 🛠️ Practical Tools & Exercises: Includes Ladder of Participation activities, power reflection tools, engagement methods, and co-production planning checklists to help teams assess, plan, and embed co-production meaningfully. 📊 Assessing Your Organisation’s Co-Production Readiness: The toolkit provides a self-assessment framework to evaluate where your organisation currently stands on the participation ladder and what steps are needed to advance meaningful involvement. ⚖️ Inclusive & Equitable Engagement Strategies: Designed to break down barriers, the toolkit offers tailored approaches for engaging people experiencing multiple disadvantages, ensuring accessibility, inclusivity, and diverse participation. 📢 Moving Beyond Tokenism: Encourages organisations to embed co-production at all levels, from service design and recruitment to funding decisions and policy influence, ensuring sustained impact and accountability. 💬 How is your organisation embedding co-production in its work?👇🏾