April 17, 2024
Tools for Field Staff›Manuals
FINDING YOUR INNER STRENGTH: Building Emotional Resilience and Social Cohesion in the Face of Adversity
Our working assumption is that all communities in which we work have experienced loss or trauma. Because of this, we are more likely to achieve our objectives when we take a...More
November 29, 2022
Tools for Field Staff›Learning Briefs
Gender-Equitable Masculinities? Yes, they’re helpful for women, but men are happier, too.
In 2021, CRS Ghana launched a pilot of CRS' Peaceful Masculinities approach. This learning report shares lessons learned from the pilot to inform future design and implementation...More
October 19, 2020
Tools for Field Staff›Fact Sheet
Steps Toward Peace
This report summarizes the findings, conclusions and recommendations of a conflict assessment commissioned by Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and the Catholic Church in West Africa...More
January 28, 2020
Tools for Field Staff›Manuals
Rising from Resilient Roots
Rising from Resilient Roots is a one-day resilience-strengthening workshop designed to help participants in fragile and conflicted contexts find inner peace by understanding and...More
February 4, 2019
Tools for Field Staff›Manuals
Peacebuilding Fundamentals
This Participants' Manual supports CRS partners and staff in strengthening their capacity to design and implement standalone and integrated justice and peacebuilding programs. The...More
February 4, 2019
Tools for Field Staff›Best Practices
Advancing Interreligious Peacebuilding
From 2016-2018, Catholic Relief Services (CRS) implemented a learning effort called Advancing Interreligious Peacebuilding (AIP). The project committed CRS’s internal resources to...More
January 11, 2019
Tools for Field Staff›Guidelines
Catholic Approaches to Transitional Justice and Reconciliation Processes
This tool is for those working in post-conflict situations and trying to engage transitional justice and reconciliation in a distinctively Catholic way. It offers an understanding...More
December 3, 2018
Tools for Field Staff›Manuals
Les racines de la résilience
Ce manuel montre comment organiser un atelier qui aide les participants à trouver une identité et une vision de leur vie qui équilibrent les expériences positives et négatives...More
April 4, 2018
Tools for Field Staff›Best Practices
Assessing Conflict in Water Development
This guidance document provide a lens through which water development practitioners can identify and assess existing or future conflict associated with their water projects and...More
December 7, 2017
Research›Papers/Reports
Del horror a la esperanza
This study, available only in Spanish, explores the benefits and results achieved by a CRS peacebuilding program in Acapulco, Mexico. The program has been implemented by the...More
