Access this set of free toolkits, handbooks, manuals and resource guides useful for NGOs working in the area of youth development and youth empowerment. Whether you are working to involve youth in peace and conflict resolution, agriculture development, community healthcare, gender integration, education, human rights, policy or advocacy, these powerful resources will help you build your knowledge and skills for effective implementation of your work.
A Free Toolkit for Law Enforcement: Enhancing Police Responses to Children Exposed to Violence
This toolkit was prepared by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), U.S. Department of Justice. OJJDP is a component of the Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Assistance; the Bureau of Justice Statistics; the Community Capacity Development Office; the National Institute of Justice; the Office for Victims… [Read More]
USAID’s Free Toolkit on Youth and Conflict
This toolkit is part of a series that explores how development assistance can address key risk factors associated with conflict. One area that is receiving increasing attention is the relationship between young people and violence. Recent studies have found a significant correlation between large youth cohorts and political instability and violence. A large pool of… [Read More]
A Free Handbook on Planning Children and Youth’s Protection Through the Area Strategic Planning Process
The ‘Handbook on Planning Children and Youth’s Protection Through the Area Strategic Planning Process’ integrates theory with practice through three learning module sections designed to help ChildFund staff strengthen their programs using methods that promote child and youth protection. The primary focus is on the Area Strategic Planning process, but the core content should also… [Read More]
A Free Handbook on Child-led Organisation and Advocacy on Child Labour: From Child Labour to Children in Charge
“From child labour to children in charge” is a handbook that provides theoretical and practical knowledge on child-led organisations and advocacy on child labour and is based on five years of field experience in Bangladesh. The document is published by Save the Children Sweden-Denmark in Bangladesh in close collaboration with INCIDIN Bangladesh, SEEP, BITA, Nari… [Read More]
Take Care: A Free Toolkit provided by Save the Children
Save the Children ran the Take Care project with primary school aged children. Across the European project, partners also worked with teenagers, youth groups and children with disabilities. This toolkit is based on the work done by Save the Children UK. Take Care is designed to be used as a framework that can be adapted… [Read More]
A Free Religious Leaders’ Handbook on Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
This handbook is a tool for religious leaders to understand and address sexual and reproductive health and rights issues among children and adolescents aged 5-18 and youth aged 19-24 years. The main aim of developing the handbook is to assist religious leaders and parents to provide effective sexual and reproductive health guidance to children and… [Read More]
A Free Action Guide on the Prevention of Gender-Based Violence Among Youth: Breaking the Cycle
This manual is a guide for trainers in youth clubs, associations, centers, schools, or any other structure working with and for youth and youth development. The curriculum can be implemented as a whole or some activities can be selected and adjusted depending on the needs of each training program. It is planned based on different… [Read More]
A Free Workbook for Young Men on Violence and Masculinities
This workbook has been designed so that young men like you are able to relate to the issue of violence and reflect on this widespread problem. This resource is part of a series of toolkits and educational material developed by Breakthrough on social issues of human rights, gender, sexuality and violence against women, through which… [Read More]
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 Workbook for Young Men on Violence and Masculinities
This workbook has been designed so that young men like you are able to relate to the issue of violence and reflect on this widespread problem. This resource is part of a series of toolkits and educational material developed by Breakthrough on social issues of human rights, gender, sexuality and violence against women, through which… [Read More]
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 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 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]
A Free Deliver+Enable Toolkit: Scaling up Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE)
This toolkit offers guidance and resources on ways to deliver CSE for children, adolescents, and youth in non-formal and formal settings and encourage other stakeholders to develop and implement CSE policies and programmes. Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) has gained global recognition as a vital effort to empower adolescents and young people; enable them to improve… [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 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 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 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 YEG Dignity Campaign Toolkit: Contributing to Global Dignity Day and End Poverty Edmonton
This YEG Dignity Campaign School Resource toolkit: Contributing to Global Dignity Day and End Poverty Edmonton was created in 2016and launched as a community-wide creative art campaign. This edu-cational toolkit provides a guide to Edmonton teachers, volunteers andyouth program leaders to integrate activities in the classroom whilecontributing to the YEG Dignity Campaign. It challenges students tothink about… [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: 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 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]
A Free Youth Project Toolkit: Resource for Youth Leaders and Youth-Serving Professionals
The Youth Project Toolkit provides youth leaders and youth-serving professionals with 16 step-by-step project models for engaging young people in the community. Projects in this toolkit are based on the principles of Positive Youth Development theory. The projects help young people develop the skills and abilities they need to become successful adults and active citizens… [Read More]
A Free Guide to the Implementation of the World Programme of Action for Youth
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]
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 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 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]
A Free Guide on Youth-led Research Project
Youth-led research is a powerful tool for youth empowerment and engagement, and for inquiry contributing to improved understanding of community issues. There is growing momentum to involve young people in building peace following the unanimous passage of the United Nations Security Council Resolution for Youth, Peace and Security (Resolution 2250) in December 2015. However, many… [Read More]
A Free Resource Guide on Child, Early, And Forced Marriage
This resource guide provides information on how the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) sectors, missions, and staff can integrate child, early, and forced marriage (CEFM) prevention and response into their programming. The guide provides both the rationale of why and approaches to how USAID’s efforts can address CEFM. The development of the Child,… [Read More]
A Free Positive Youth Development Measurement Toolkit
YouthPower Learning developed this Positive Youth Development Measurement Toolkit to provide guidance and resources for implementers of youth programming in LMICs to integrate PYD principles in their monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems and effectively measure PYD outputs and outcomes within their programs. The overall goal of this toolkit is to help programs effectively measure PYD… [Read More]
