FRAC and AAP gratefully acknowledge the Anthem Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Anthem, Inc., for support of their work to help medical providers screen and intervene to address food insecurity. Explore FRAC and the American Academy of Pediatrics’ latest toolkit to learn more about how pediatricians can play a critical role in addressing food insecurity…. [Read More]
Youth Resources
A list of free guides, how-to tools and other resources on Youth for NGOs and development professionals.
A Free Training Manual on Theatre-Based Techniques for Youth Peer Education
Theatre-Based Techniques for Youth Peer Education: A Training Manual is a publication that provides an overview of using theater in health education. It contains four peer theater training workshops, a series of theater games and exercises that can be used in trainings, and information on developing and building a peer theater program. A collaboration between… [Read More]
A Free Handbook for Adults Working with Youth from a Christian Perspective: Family Life Education
Family Life Education: A Handbook for Adults Working with Youth from a Christian Perspective – or “CFLE Handbook” for short – is designed to assist adults in providing correct life-skills information to youth. The CFLE Handbook seeks to encourage open discussion about sexuality, reproductive health, and HIV in the context of faith communities. It provides… [Read More]
A Free Sport for Protection Toolkit
The ‘Sport for Protection toolkit: Programming with Young People in Forced Displacement Settings’ was created by UNHCR, IOC and Terre des hommes (Tdh), aiming to better understand the role that sport can play in the protection and well-being of refugee and internally displaced young people. This toolkit represents the next step in an ongoing collaboration… [Read More]
A Free Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Toolkit for Humanitarian Settings
This Toolkit is intended to guide humanitarian programme managers and healthcare providers to ensure that sexual and reproductive health interventions put into place both during and after a crisis are responsive to the unique needs of adolescents. It provides user-friendly tools for assessing the impact of a crisis on adolescents, implementing an adolescent-friendly Minimum Initial… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for Child Protection Actors: Gender-Based Violence Against Children and Youth with Disabilities
This toolkit was designed to reflect on and address capacity development needs of staff on disability inclusion; identify gender-based violence (GBV) prevention and response needs of children and youth with disabilities; and foster their participation in both planning and implementation of activities to prevent and reduce the risks of violence. Studies suggest that children with… [Read More]
A Free GFF Advocacy Toolkit for Civil Society and Youth
This toolkit is designed to guide and equip the GFF civil society (CS) and youth constituency to meaningfully and effectively engage in the GFF resource mobilization campaign in support of the Case for Investment. The toolkit provides a suite of tips and illustrative examples to adapt and or learn from to support the various global… [Read More]
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A Free Toolkit for Youth Participation in Just Transition Fund
The European Commission’s Directorate General for Regional and Urban Policy published a ‘Toolkit for Youth Participation in the Just Transition Fund’. It aims to encourage more ambitious, meaningful and numerous participation opportunities for youth in the regions targeted by the Just Transition Fund, as well as to ensure that the effects of such processes will… [Read More]
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A Free NGO Guide to EU Policies and Actions: The Education of Migrant Children
This guide is intended as a tool for better understanding EU policies, responsibilities, and funding mechanisms related to the education of migrant children and youth within existing EU agendas on human rights, equal treatment, antidiscrimination, integration, social inclusion, and education and training. In response to these trends and as part of the Open Society Foundations’… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for Young Leaders: Respecting, Protecting, and Fulfilling our Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
This toolkit provides information and guidance for young people to become expert leaders on advocacy for sexual and reproductive health and rights. It introduces key concepts and rights, explains how to investigate the status of SRHR in one’s own community and country, and how to develop an advocacy strategy for change. Divided into four major… [Read More]
A Free Advocacy Toolkit: Mobilising Communities on Young People’s Health and Rights
This guide leads the user through the stages of planning and launching an advocacy campaign to ensure that government commitments are translated into programmes that meet young people’s sexual and reproductive health needs. The toolkit provides prototype worksheets and other tools at the end of each chapter. The training guide shows how to facilitate a… [Read More]
A Free Practical Guide: Ending the AIDS Epidemic for Adolescents, With Adolescents
This document provides guidance to programme designers, implementers, policy and decision-makers on how to meaningfully engage adolescents in the AIDS response and broader health programming. It discusses the principles of meaningful collaboration, recommendations for engaging with adolescents, and offers case studies of meaningful youth participation. Adolescents (10–19) are the only age group in which AIDS-related… [Read More]
A Free Handbook on ‘Developing and Strengthening HIV Care and Support Services for Adolescents’
This handbook has been written for practitioners working directly with children and adolescents living with HIV and for policy makers and management to help develop services and protocols. To that end, it includes policy and practice guidance for the development of services, practice models and practical examples. The global experience of HIV offers many shared… [Read More]
A Free Sexuality Education Advocacy Handbook for Young People: We demand more
This handbook is designed for young people who want to improve the sexuality education that is provided in their school, town or country. You don’t need to be an expert on sexuality education or a professional “advocate” to fight for better education on issues relating to sexuality, gender, and relationships. This guide includes all the… [Read More]
A Free Explore Toolkit for Involving Young People as Researchers in SRHR Programmes
This Explore toolkit is designed to support organizations and professionals in their efforts to build youth-adult partnerships and involve young people in monitoring, evaluation (M&E) and research of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) programmes that target them. The toolkit consists of: Toolkit instructions and case studies: Guidelines to create conditions for successful youth… [Read More]
A Free Youth Activism for Lebanese Accountability Training Toolkit
This toolkit — Youth Activism for Lebanese Accountability (YALA): An Inclusive Civic Engagement Training Curriculum — is about creating change through activism and accountability. It is about creating change at the individual, institutional, and socio-political level by providing young people with the knowledge and skills to help shape the future of their country. It was… [Read More]
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A Free Resource Mobilization Toolkit for Girls, Young Women and Trans Youth
This toolkit supports and promotes creative and practical thinking on resource mobilization for girls, young women and trans youth, and can be used by organizations as well as individuals with different levels of skills and experience. It hopes to benefit especially small-scale startup groups led by girls, young women and trans youth leading social justice… [Read More]
