African officials welcomed a new toolkit with an aim to help countries achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and other internationally-agreed targets. Twenty participants from nine small and vulnerable countries in Africa were part of the workshop in Johannesburg, South Africa on 14-16 May, alongside the representatives from African Union Commission (AUC), UN Economic Commission… [Read More]
Youth Resources
A list of free guides, how-to tools and other resources on Youth for NGOs and development professionals.
A Free SVRI Forum Toolkit on Being Heard Project
The Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) hosts the leading global event in the world on sexual and intimate partner violence – the SVRI Forum. The SVRI has noted an increase in the number of presentations on sexual violence in childhood since the Forum began in 2009. This increase is reflected in the number of initiatives… [Read More]
A Free Guide for Children and Young Advocates: Child-Led Mobilisation
World Vision is committed to creating spaces and opportunities for children and young people to participate in shaping programmes, practices and policy. This guide supports children and young people in crafting their own voices and spaces as part of the efforts to end violence against children. This guide has been written to support children and… [Read More]
A Free Crimes Against Humanity Treaty Toolkit
A new convention on crimes against humanity (CAH) is in its final draft stages, but most civil society groups including women, LGBTIQ, disability, Indigenous, aboriginal, youth, caste, and racial and ethnic minority rights groups have not weighed in. While the current treaty draft embraces strong language from the Rome Statute (which created the International Criminal… [Read More]
A Free Guide to International Labour Standards and Rights at Work
This Guide is intended for ILO constituents and other stakeholders concerned with promoting youth employment, and in particular ensuring decent work for young people. This Guide describes international labour standards relevant to young persons. While covering different thematic areas, it focuses on the key provisions of Conventions and Recommendations, in particular those of special relevance… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for Children and Young People’s Participation in Advocacy
The Toolkit is intended as a practical resource for those working with children and young people to support their participation in advocacy activities. The toolkit builds on globally recognized standards of quality and safeguarding in child and youth participation and addresses the specific implications of involving children and young people with care experience. This Toolkit… [Read More]
A Free Guide for Development Agencies and Policy Makers: Youth Participation in Development
The Youth Participation in Development Guide was created as part of a joint project between the DFID CSO Youth Working Group and the DFID Equity and Rights Team in the UK with the goal of furthering the participation of young people in the decision making process within development and support donor agencies (multilateral and bilateral)… [Read More]
Free Private Sector Toolkit for Working with Youth
The Private sector toolkit to working with youth is part of a series of technical papers aimed both at strengthening youth participation at all levels through cooperation among various stakeholders, as well as at highlighting the role of youth as agents of development. Building on Youth participation in development, which provides guidance to development agencies… [Read More]
A Free Skill IT Training Toolkit for Youth Workers
The toolkit provides instructions on how to hold a workshop for young people on selected competences and presents theory and research-based facts on the work related to digital enhancement needs, as well as ready-to-use scenarios. Welcome to the Skill IT for Youth Training Toolkit – your friendly guide in helping young people to better face… [Read More]
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A Free Transitioning of Care & Other Services for Adolescents Living with HIV Toolkit
This toolkit is designed to support healthcare and community care providers, families, caregivers, and the adolescents themselves with the transition of care, support and transition services from pediatric to adult care. A trainer’s manual for health care providers is also included. Increasing numbers of perinatally infected children are surviving to adolescence and adulthood. This group… [Read More]
A Free Voice Up for Change Toolkit
The Voice Up for Change Toolkit has been designed to equip the young people of the Greater Mekong sub-region (GMS) to raise their voices and advocate for greater protection of the vulnerable and those victimised by human trafficking. The youth advocates will be trained to identify the key problems related to human trafficking that they… [Read More]
A Free Clinic-Community Collaboration Toolkit
The toolkit was developed by Paediatric-Adolescent-Treatment Africa (PATA) and the Positive Action for Children Fund (PACF). The toolkit sets out to support clinics and CBOs to partner with each other. The toolkit provides a systematic approach and series of methodologies on how clinic-CBO partnerships can be built through shared projects, with the goal of expanding… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for Transition of Care and other Services for Adolescents Living with HIV
This Toolkit is a guide that assists both HCPs and CCPs to tailor a package of services for ALHIV. HCPs and CCPs are the primary users of the Toolkit, and they should use the Toolkit and distribute content/tools as appropriate to the adolescent and the family/caregiver. The Toolkit Provides: A framework to promote self-care: The… [Read More]
A Free Human Rights Education toolkit: Write for Rights 2018
The Human Rights Education (HRE) Write for Rights (W4R) toolkit was created to support participation with your students in the 2018 campaign. By learning about the lives of others and writing persuasive letters to help end human rights violations and achieve justice, you and your students contribute to the international human rights movement and see… [Read More]
A Free Handbook: Voices against Violence
“Voices against Violence” is a co-educational curriculum developed by the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) and UN Women, with inputs from young people. Designed for various age groups ranging from 5 to 25 years, it provides young people with tools and expertise to understand the root causes of violence in their… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for Monitoring and Evaluating Children’s Participation
The toolkit provides a conceptual framework for measuring children’s participation, together with guidance on how to undertake monitoring and evaluation and practical tools that can help you gather the information you need. It can be used by organizations working directly with children, by child- and youth-led organizations, and by governments that are committed to fulfilling… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit: Scaling-up Comprehensive Sexuality Education
Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) has gained global recognition as a vital effort to empower adolescents and young people; enable them to improve and protect their health, well-being and dignity; and support them in developing critical thinking skills, citizenship, and equal, healthy and positive relationships. What will You Find in This Toolkit? What and why: This… [Read More]
A Free Conflict Resolution and Peer Mediation Toolkit
The Conflict Resolution and Peer Mediation Toolkit provides the training notes, handouts, sample agendas, and resource templates to initiate a peer mediation program for youth. In this Toolkit: In this Toolkit, you will find the training notes, handouts, sample agendas, and resource templates needed to initiate a peer mediation program for youth. Intended Audience: The… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit: Community Schools Academy Curriculum
Community Schools Academy Curriculum toolkit is intended to serve as a resource for youth development professionals, youth-serving organizations and educational institutions aiming to develop civic engagement and tolerance in young people. The included materials were developed for the Youth Civic Engagement and Dialogue (YCED) Program, which brought together Roma and non-Roma youth (ages 14-18) in… [Read More]
