The World Programme of Action for Youth encourages governments to be more responsive to the aspirations and needs of youth to usher in a better world. Young people in all countries are both a major human resource for development and key agents for social change, economic development and technological innovation. Recognizing and addressing the special… [Read More]
Youth Resources
A list of free guides, how-to tools and other resources on Youth for NGOs and development professionals.
A Free Toolkit for Supporting Smallholder Seed Systems
Agriculture begins with seed. Without seed, there can be no crops and no food production. When harvests fail or seed stocks are lost, seed insecurity ensues, which can reduce food security and livelihoods. In most smallholder farming systems farmers save seed from the previous harvest to plant in the next season. They select seed from… [Read More]
A Free Action Toolkit on Tax Power Campaign Reflection
When funds are missing for quality public services, it’s communities living in poverty, particularly women and girls, that suffer the most, making the world more unequal. Around the world, millions of girls are missing out school. Women are more at risk of violence in their cities from poor public transport and lighting. And women are… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for CSO’s in Africa: Monitoring Government Policies
This project was started by the three agencies with a view to supporting partner organisations, particularly church-based organisations, to hold their governments to account for the consequences of their policies. This toolkit specifically targets African partners, seeking to share the struggles and successes of partners already monitoring government policies with those that are new to… [Read More]
A Free Advocacy Handbook for Youth Organisations
Youth organisations across Europe share a vision: to empower young people and fight for their rights. As most youth organisations are super busy, this vision translates into many missions and activities. Among these activities, for organisations at all levels, advocacy is having an ever more important role. It is essentially the process through which non-profit… [Read More]
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A Free Toolkit for Research and Development of Paediatric Antiretroviral Drugs and Formulations
This Toolkit for Research and Development of Paediatric Antiretroviral Drugs and Formulations was developed with the financial support of Unitaid, the International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials (IMPAACT) Network and the PENTA Foundation. The work of the Clinton Health Access Initiative on optimal antiretroviral drugs for children is made possible through the generous support… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit on ‘Advocating for Change for Adolescents’
This toolkit is a joint initiative made possible by a collaboration between the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (the Partnership) and Women Deliver, with the support of several partners and contributors. This toolkit was developed by young people, for young people, to be used by networks of youth-led and youth-serving organizations to change… [Read More]
A Free Youth Activist’s Toolkit
This toolkit aims to equip you with the tools and strategies to be a community organizer and to win real change in the lives of your community members, your state, and even your country. As a dedicated young person, you can change the world and this guide will provide you with some of the skills… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for Youth from Youth: Addressing Corruption in Education
A Free Toolkit for Youth from Youth on Addressing Corruption in Education was developed in the framework of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded Europe & Eurasia Social Legacy Program (E&E SLP). It is intended to serve as an educational tool, providing information and resources for the design and implementation of activities… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit on How to Design Projects to End Violence Against Women and Girls
This Toolkit brings together information, resources and practical activities to help Pacific Islanders apply a gendered analysis to the issue of violence against women and to design and implement effective and sustainable projects. It can be used for new projects or to integrate a gender analysis and human rights based approach to existing projects aiming… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for Practitioners: Interactive Radio for Development Projects
This Interactive Radio Toolkit is adapted from and expands on Interactive Radio for Agricultural Development Projects: A Toolkit for Practitioners in December 2012 under USAID’s FACET project. Though many examples used here highlight agriculture, this adaptation is for development projects more broadly and draws on the wisdom and experience of colleagues in many fields who… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit on Youth Peer Education: Training of Trainers Manual
The Training of Trainers Manual is a curriculum tool to prepare master-level peer education trainers. The manual uses participatory techniques based on a variety of theoretical frameworks to ensure that future trainers are skilled and confident in their abilities to train peer educators and serve as informed resources for their peers. The manual resulted from… [Read More]
Free Toolkit: Human Rights Education in Volunteering
The Human Rights Education Toolkit is the culmination of the Erasmus+ Key Action 2 project “Communicating Human Rights in Diversity” comprising volunteering and civil society organisations in 16 countries around the world. It has been possible through the concerted efforts of human rights multipliers who drafted training programmes for EVS and ICYE volunteers at the… [Read More]
A Free Good Practice Guide: Adolescent HIV Programming
This guide is one of a series of good practice guides, and contains information, strategies and resources to help HIV programmers implement HIV programming for adolescents. This is a ‘how to’ guide. Each topic area provides key principles, practical ideas and case studies. International policy recommendations and advocacy opportunities are highlighted. Links to other resources… [Read More]
Free Gender Toolkit: A Manual for Youth Peace Workers
In this toolkit, you will get information and guidelines for work with gender in youth peace organisations. It builds on the experience of former Gender Officers and the Gender Working Group. It comprises of checklists, best practices, resources and modules which allow you to implement gender perspective in every aspect of your work. This toolkit… [Read More]
A Free Publication on ‘Peace Bag for EuroMed Youth’
The Foundation Catalunya Voluntària and the Peace Bag partnership have launched of this ´Peace Bag for EuroMed Youth’ publication. The ‘Peace Bag for Euro-Med Youth’, reflects not only the Foundation’s goal to promote a real culture of peace, but also its aim to support cross country partnership. 18 different Euro-Med organisations across 14 countries partnered… [Read More]
A Free Practice Note for Young People’s Participation in Peacebuilding
This Practice Note Published by the UN Inter-Agency Network on Youth Development, Sub-working Group on Youth Participation in Peacebuilding (2016), with the collaboration of UNOY Peacebuilders. The main objective of this Practice Note is to inform policymakers and donors of key strategic and programming considerations for supporting young people’s participation in peacebuilding. Specifically, this note… [Read More]
Free Toolkit and Guide on Adult Human Trafficking Screening
The Adult Human Trafficking Screening Toolkit (AHTST) is a guide for training public health, behavioral health, health care, and social work professionals who wish to use trauma-informed and survivor-informed practices to assess adult clients and patients for human trafficking victimization or risk of potential trafficking victimization. It is a survivor-centered, trauma-informed, and culturally appropriate intervention… [Read More]
A Free Expect Respect Educational Toolkit
The Expect Respect Educational Toolkit consists of one easy to use ‘Core’ lesson for each year group from reception to year 13 and is based on themes that have been found to be effective in tackling domestic abuse. Although the Expect Respect Education Toolkit is targeted for use by teachers within schools, it can just… [Read More]
