Resources
| Tools | Purpose | Links |
|---|---|---|
| Positive Youth Development Measurement Toolkit A Practical Guide for Implementers of Youth Programs | This toolkit provides implementers of youth programming a variety of references, resources, and tools on how to use a positive youth development (PYD) approach for evaluating youth-focused programming. It includes positive youth development illustrative indicators. Perhaps more importantly, the toolkit offers a series of considerations for adapting the indicators and measures to local contexts. | Access |
| Youth Engagement Measurement Guide | This is an online guide to help actors identify indicators that can be used to measure youth engagement and provide additional resources effectively. The youth engagement indicators is designed for use during program design, monitoring, and evaluation (M&E) to ensure youth participation in program activities and during M&E implementation to monitor and evaluate progress towards achieving specific outputs and outcomes | Access |
| Youth Engagement Evaluation Toolkit | This tool is intended to help organisations rate their youth engagement practice and understand their areas of strength and areas for improvement. By systematically considering youth engagement practice across five themes of youth engagement, participants can assess youth engagement within their organisation | Access |
| Evidence-based Policy Making for Youth Well-being: A Toolkit | The toolkit includes a step-by-step approach to carrying out a youth well-being diagnosis and provides practical examples of youth policies and programmes in the areas of employment, education and skills, health and civic participation. | Access |
| Youth Engagement Toolkit Resource Guide | The toolkit provides practical strategies for engaging youth and, provides context for engaging youth from diverse context including: Aboriginal youth, deaf and hard of hearing youth, newcomer youth, LGBTQ2S youth, youth in care, young parents, homeless youth and youth in custody | Access |
| Youth Participation Guide: Assessment, Planning, and Implementation | The Youth Participation Guide seeks to increase the level of meaningful youth participation in reproductive health (RH) and HIV/AIDS programming at an institutional and programmatic level. However, the guide can be adapted to promote youth participation in economic opportunites | Access |
| Meaningful and Inclusive Youth Participation; A Planning Tool | This planning tool aims to support organisations in their (annual) planning cycle of country programmes. The tool seeks to support the development of inclusive country programmes and can also be used as a reference to strengthen other programmes where meaningful and inclusive youth participation is a strategy. It builds on important learnings on inclusive youth participation and inclusive SRHR advocacy | Access |
| JCSH Youth Engagement Toolkit | The toolkit provides a useful way to think about engagement, including the various factors that lead to and support meaningful engagement and positive outcomes. | Access |
| Meaningfully engaging with Youth | This toolkit is designed to promote meaningful youth engagement practices across the UN’s work relevant to youth | Access |
| YouthPower (USAID)Youth Involvement and Engagement Assessment Tool | This tool is designed to assess youth involvement and engagement in programs. It is encouraged to use this tool every 6 months. | Access |
| Youth Engagement Scorecard | The Youth Engagement Scorecard provides professionals in the development sector the possibility to measure the level of youth engagement in programs or projects during different phases (design phase, implementation and post implementation). It is a user-friendly, insightful, fun and limited-time-consuming tool that aims to make us reflect and learn about the possibilities of youth engagement and how to lift this to a higher level. | Access |
| Toolkit for Adolescent Youth Engagement | The Youth Engagement Scorecard provides professionals in the development sector the possibility to measure the level of youth engagement in programs or projects during different phases (design phase, implementation and post implementation). It is a user-friendly, insightful, fun and limited-time-consuming tool that aims to make us reflect and learn about the possibilities of youth engagement and how to lift this to a higher level. | Access |
| Six Strategies to Build Empowering Youth Engagement | The report highlights Community School strategies, recommendations and examples of how communities have been able to address and meet the needs of youth. It provides a clear process to develop and implement empowering youth engagement strategies | Access |
| OGP Youth Toolkit | This Toolkit aims to address these potential pitfalls by sharing open government success stories and best practices around the value of engaging young people in open government processes. | AccesshAccess |
| Checklist for Meaningful Youth Engagement | This practical checklist provides questions to keep in mind when engaging with youth. It is useful in fostering meaningful engagement with young people in speaking engagements, decision-making, and overall programming. The underlying objective is for young people to be treated as equal partners by their non-youth counterparts in the peacebuilding and human rights fields, through active and meaningful inclusion throughout the entire duration of an engagement. | Access |
| Youth At Work Conference (March 2023) | Youth@Work – “Tools for Youth Employability and Entrepreneurship” aims to contribute towards cross-sectoral collaboration and dissemination of know-how for the support of youth economic empowerment | Access |
| Better Policies for Better Youth Livelihoods A Guidance Note for Development Practitioners (OECD) | Provide support in better responding to the aspirations of young people as well as strengthening youth involvement in national development processes. It sheds light on the determinants of youth vulnerabilities and successful transitions, and enhanced national capacities to design evidence-based policies that promote youth inclusion. | Access |
| Unlocking the Potential of Youth Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries (OECD) | This report aims to contribute to the ongoing debate on the role of youth entrepreneurship in generating employment in developing countries. It is based on the analysis of mixed labour force and enterprise surveys conducted in Côte d’Ivoire, Madagascar, Peru and Viet Nam, as well as evidence on the impact of entrepreneurship programmes. This report’s findings add to the global debate on youth entrepreneurship in three important ways. First, it constitutes an unprecedented effort to capture the real situations and multiple faces of young entrepreneurs in selected developing countries. Second, it provides new empirical evidence on the determinants of youth entrepreneurial performance. Third, it proposes a policy roadmap based on lessons learned from recent meta-analyses of the effectiveness of entrepreneurship programmes. | Access |
| Youth Aspirations and the Reality of Jobs in Developing Countries (OECD) | This study revisits youth labour market performance and the quality of jobs in developing countries. It places youth employment preferences at the forefront and answers the following questions. What is the nature of youth careers aspirations and job-related drivers of job satisfaction? What shapes such employment preferences? How likely will young people be able to meet their job aspirations? What policy makers can do to reduce the gap between youth preferences and the reality of jobs? | Access |
| The Future of Rural Youth in Developing Countries (OECD) | This study looks at local actions and national policies that can promote agro-food value chains and other rural non-farm activities using a youth employment lens. | Access |
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