Teach A Man To Fish Resources

Beyond Fees: A Guide to Income Generation in Schools
This TeachAManToFish publication is a practical guide designed to take you through the process of identifying and implementing income generating strategies at your school.
- Beyond Fees: A Guide to Income Generation in Schools

Teach A Man To Fish brochure
Background material on TAMTF, our approach to education, our network and the services we offer.
- Teach A Man To Fish brochure (English) (Español)

Research on Entrepreneurship in Schools

School Enterprises: Combining Vocational Learning with Production (1998) Madhu Singh
This study reviews the work of institutions across the world which in addition to providing educational services also produce other goods and services for sale in the market. A number of case studies are presented from Algeria, Botswana, China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Germany, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya, and Papua New Guinea. The findings are summarized, and conclusions and guidelines are developed.
- School Enterprises: Combining Vocational Learning with Production

Entrepreneurship Education Resources

UNESCO Entrepreneurship Training Packages
Developed by curriculum experts from Sub-Saharan Africa these packages consist of practical guides which aim to provide young people with an entrepreneurial mindset and the knowledge to use their technical skills to start a small business.

Non-formal learners:
Facilitator’s guide
Participant’s workbook

Secondary students:
Facilitator’s guide
Participant’s workbook

Project Resources & Capacity Building

CIVICUS Toolkits
Based on requests from members, CIVICUS has produced a range of toolkits to enable organisations to improve their capacity in a number of keyareas related to project planning, budgeting and monitoring & evaluation.

• Planning Overview     (Word) or (PDF)
  
• Action planning     (Word) or (PDF)
  
• Monitoring and Evaluation     (Word) or (PDF)
  
• Strategic Planning     (Word) or (PDF)
  
• Developing a Financing Strategy     (Word) or (PDF)
  
• Financial Controls and Accountability     (Word) or (PDF)
  
• Writing a Funding Proposal     (Word) or (PDF)
  
• Budgeting (in two parts): Part 1     (Word) or (PDF)
  and Part 2     (Word) or (PDF)

The above toolkits as well as many more on a range of related topics are available from the CIVICUS website - here

NORAD handbook on gender and empowerment assessment
Produced by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, this handbook presents a method for Gender Empowerment Assessment (GEA) which records how development projects and programmes affect women and men. (Word) 

Income Generating Schools

San Francisco Agricultural High School, Paraguay
Run by the Fundacion Paraguaya this organic farm school is aiming at 100% financial self-sufficiency, and is already covering over half of costs through income generating activities.
- San Francisco Agricultural High School
- Short video on the San Francisco Agricultural High School

Songhai Centre, Benin
The Songhai Centre runs six schools across Benin and one in Nigeria and aims at full financial independence achieved through marketing of school products & services.
- Songhai Centre website
- Short video on the Songhai Center

Baraka Agricultural College, Kenya
In support of its mission to promote Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development, Baraka maintains four income generating units which complement its educational work in a number of ways.
- Baraka Agricultural College

Eden Campus / Karatara Trust , South Africa
A 'Business College for the Poor', Eden Campus is a new and innovative tertiary education institution in South Africa supported in part by student-run business ranging from organic horticulture, to bicycle hire and refurbished second hand clothing.
- Eden Campus website

Agriculture

Agricultural News

• New Agriculturist on-line magazine

Agricultural Research

• Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa
• Grow Biointensive - Organic Farming Methodology & Network HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
• HDRA - Organic Farming Research for Tropical Regions
• Southeast Asian Regional Center for Research in Agriculture (SEARCA)

Agricultural Support Organizations

• Urban Agriculture
• The Growing Connection - An FAO program promoting sustainable small scale food production

Agricultural Sectors

Agroforestry
• World Agroforestry Center- News & research on agroforestry from around the world

Beekeeping
• Apimondia
- Comprehensive site on beekeeping globally
Fish-farming
• The Fish Site - Huge amount of free news, information & research on fish-farming
• World Fish Center - Aquaculture for poverty reduction: news, reseach etc.

Special Interest
• Vetiver Network - The Vetiver System is low cost and extremely effective system for soil and water conservation, infrastructure stabilization, pollution control, waste water treatment, mitigation and prevention of storm damage and many other applications. You never knew vetiver grass could have so many uses!

Education

Educational Materials & Resources

• AEShareNet - Free and licenced teaching materials
• CENSE - Resources for educators from curriculum plans to online training
• Commonwealth of Learning - Range of resources with heavy focus on open / distance learning
• Next Vista - Free online library of video resources for learners everywhere
• Open Learning Platform - UNESCO site with large number of education resources RECOMMENDED!

Educational Networks

• Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA)
• School Net Africa

Education Support Organizations & Initiatives

• Education for Rural People - FAO initiative
• UNEVOC - UN International Center for Vocational Education & Training.

Education Blogs

• Think:Lab - A fascinating blog on 'the future of learning'. Although largely based on what's going on in the US, it's still a great source of inspiration for schools and teachers wherever they are.

Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship

• CELCEE - Contains abstracts of materials on entrepreneurship education at all levels, and a collection of links to the web pages of organizations dealing with entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education.
• Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education - A useful source of teaching materials and resources for entrepreneurship education.

• Timbuktu Chronicles - A veritable goldmine of articles on entrepreneurship and small-scale technology with a social edge.

Fundraising

Fundraising online