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A list of free guides, how-to tools and other resources on Youth for NGOs and development professionals.

A Free Growing Up GREAT! Implementation Guide

Growing Up Great! is a scalable, multi-level intervention designed to improve sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and gender equity among very young adolescents (VYA) and the important adults in their lives. It supports VYAs and their communities to question and break down social barriers that prevent access to health information and services. It was piloted… [Read More]

A Free Toolkit for Water Auditors: Residential Sector

This toolkit is intended as a guide to those water districts and/or companies, agencies or academic institutions wishing to take first steps to becoming more water efficient and ecologically responsible. Please note that it does not substitute for expert technical guidance and advice.   The technical information in this toolkit is standard practice and state… [Read More]

A Free Guide for Strong Girls Make Strong Women

Strong Girls Make Strong Women: A Practical Handbook to Creating and Leading a Girls’ Club was developed in partnership with WomenStrong founding members in Ghana, Kenya, India, and Haiti, based on their experiences running Girls’ Clubs for over 10,000 girls and boys. The Handbook incorporates best practices promoted by renowned youth development and life skills… [Read More]

A Free Teaching Integrity to Youth Toolkit

This Special Edition of the Corruption Fighters’ Tool Kit presents a diverse collection of youth education experiences mainly from civil society organizations. Although approaching the topic from different angles, including moral or value education, human rights and civic education, they all have a common goal: strengthening young people’s attitudes and demands for accountability,and ultimately, to… [Read More]

A Free Child- and Youth-Friendly Participatory Action Research Toolkit

This toolkit is designed to help ensure children have the opportunity to participate in the identification and analysis of issues and in the planning and implementation of solutions. It can also help programme staff understand child protection problems/strengths; assess situations; develop and evaluate programmes; develop protection measures, networks, and response mechanisms; and find programmatic gaps. This… [Read More]

A Free Toolkit for Engaging Youth to Achieve Gender Equity

The Toolkit aims to engage youth to achieve gender equity. It is based on 10 years of evidence and experience of Programs H and M around the world for engaging youth in gender equity, including promoting respect for sexual diversity and achieving gender and social justice. The H (for men) and M (for women) programs… [Read More]

A Free Youth Engagement Toolkit

The Youth Engagement Toolkit is a user-friendly resource developed to support and strengthen youth engagement practice. The Toolkit was created because it’s time for organizations to start thinking differently about how to engage young people at an organizational level. How are youth involved as partners in your organization? Do youth have opportunities to contribute to… [Read More]

A Free Toolkit for Adolescent and Youth Engagement MENA UN

This toolkit is designed to provide those working in the humanitarian and development sectors with a collecon of key tools to support young people’s parcipaon and engagement. It draws on the theory of change, Posive Adolescent Development and the Social Jusce Development approach. This toolkit intends to provide guidance for meaningfully engaging adolescents and youth… [Read More]

A Free Youth Participation Best Practices Toolkit: Part II

This is the second part of the Youth Participation Toolkit, coordinated by Save the Children. It contains tools, methods, tips, exercises, and training workshops for improving youth participation. The Education for Youth Empowerment (EYE) program targets a relatively wide age group, 12 – 24 year olds, in various countries. The toolkit is rather generic so… [Read More]

A Free Toolkit on Youth Participation Best Practices – Part I

This is the first part of the Youth Participation Toolkit, coordinated by Save the Children. A central element of Save the Children’s Child Rights Programming guidelines is to ensure the participation of children and young people. Participation enables children and youth to influence the actions and decisions affecting their lives and empowers them to advocate for… [Read More]

A Free Toolkit on Building Community for Youth and Adults

This toolkit provides resources and ideas for artists or community organisers who are interested in building up partnerships between youth and adults in the community. By leveraging on the strengths of the community, it can reinforce the community and, as a result, bring about positive change. Whether you are just starting or are already underway… [Read More]