The Partos DEI Handbook & Workbook
Partos is proud to share the DEI Handbook: Your lenses for building inclusive change. The handbook offers a practical guide to making your organisation more welcoming, inclusive and equitable for everyone. This work comes from the collective wisdom and experiences of over 50 civil society organisations who participated in Partos’ groundbreaking DEI Learning Trajectory over 2023, 2024 and 2025. Their rich learnings, reflections, tools and practices are the main source of knowledge and inspiration for this publication. The handbook comes with a workbook with practical tools to help you with; starting out with DEI work, racism and white privilege, wellbeing as a DEI practitioner and how to measure if DEI efforts are actually working and much more.
DEI organizational Checklist and Indicators
The Partos DEI Organisational Checklist and Measurement Indicators are designed with our community to provide a deeper understanding of how to develop and implement a DEI strategy within your organisation, whether you are just starting or at a more advanced stage of the process. The Checklist will help you assess the current state of DEI efforts in key areas within your organisation and identify the steps needed to elevate them to the next level. The indicators accompany each question, enabling you to measure your progress from the initial stages to the final goals.
Racial Justice
As part of our DEI Trajectory, Partos recognized that racial justice is a crucial and inherent part of our work to dismantle all forms of discrimination and call for social justice within the world and our institutions. Since 2020, spurred by #BlackLivesMatter, development organizations picked up social movements’ alarm rings on the racial injustices that still prevail in our world. However, international justice is still under pressure, albeit in different forms and crises. Priorities may shift, but injustices against racialized minorities remain. Acknowledging this gap and our position as a convener for social change, Partos committed to walking the talk by facilitating racial justice affinity spaces, racial justice workshops and exhibition visits, and webinars.
Leave No One Behind Brown Bag Series: Anti-rights
The Leave No One Behind Brown Bag Series are short informal webinars where we center best practices, tools, and approaches that aim to put rightsholders in the driving seat and reduce discrimination. In 2025, Partos and Aidsfonds hosted a series about the global anti-rights and anti-gender movement. We explored how their tactics result in a backlash against the human rights of women, LGBTIQ+ people, migrants, and other marginalised groups such as sex workers.
Anti-rights Brown Bag Sessions
Also watch the Brown Bag Session on Participatory Grantmaking
DEI Trajectory Session recordings
Find all session recordings in our Youtube playlist!
Session recordings