Resources

Mentoring

Step Up, Link Up, Speak Up mentoring toolkit
A guide to youth-to-youth mentoring developed in collaboration with young advocates, with a focus on strengthening advocacy skills and how to share those skills. (Frontline Aids, 2016)
Visit the web page

Sightsavers mentoring guide
An economic empowerment approach where professional mentors are paired with job seekers with disabilities. (Sightsavers, 2024)
Request a copy by emailing sbc@sightsavers.org
Sightsavers staff can read the PDF here (internal document)

Support groups

BabyUbuntu training manuals
Valuable resources for caregivers of children with developmental disabilities from birth to two years, including a module on stigma. (Ubuntu, 2024)
Download the manuals (download is free, although you'll need to register first)

Mass media

Accessible communication pack
A physical and digital set of accessibility guidelines to help create inclusive communications. (Sightsavers, 2023)
Read the pack

Disability and inclusion language guide
Guidelines on the disability language that is suitable to use in our work, as well as an overview of stigmatising language to avoid. (Sightsavers, 2024)
Read the guide

Advocacy

Advocacy in programmes toolkit
Provides a practical approach to support integrating advocacy work into programmes. (Sightsavers, 2019)
Read the PDF

Engagement with faith-based organisations

Programme guidance on faith engagement
A generic resource for faith-based groups, offering support to achieve behaviour change for children, families and communities. (UNICEF/JLI, 2021)
Visit the website

Faith and positive change for children
Provides a theory of change framework, applying a social behaviour change approach, for changing behaviours with children. (UNICEF/Religions for Peace/JLI, 2019)
Visit the website

Engagement in the health sector

Guides on stigma and mental wellbeing
A collection of accessible and practical materials aimed at reducing stigma, relevant for all forms of health-related stigma. (InfoNTD, 2020)
Visit the website

Mosaic toolkit to end stigma in mental health (2024)
Toolkit on how to reduce stigma, with a focus on mental health. Includes processes and case studies.(WHO, 2024)
Visit the website

Engagement in the education sector

Addressing stigma and discrimination through SBC
Covers a range of approaches towards reducing stigma towards children and young people with disabilities.(UNICEF, 2024)
Visit the website