DFID CSO Donor Guide on Youth Participation

The Guide is launched – 30 March 2010!

sarahhuxley — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:13:36 +0000

On Tuesday 30 March 2010 the Youth Participation Guide was launched at the Girl Hub within DFID on Palace Street.

As a team, it was wonderful to finally reach this point and present to DFID staff (including the Minister Mike Foster) what we have all been working on for the last year and a half. And whilst Sammy (Ugandan Youth Participation officer) and Samrat (Nepali Youth Participation officer) were unable to join us in person – their film clips explaining how the project has worked (in each respective county) brought their contributions to the forefront.

The guide is now online, and we very much hope will remain a working and living document.

Thank you to all of you that have contributed, and we now look forward to hearing about its uptake and use!

The evidence is there.

Sarah

Project Manager

Filed under: The Guide, Updates and News

Policies relating to youth in Uganda & Nepal

sarahhuxley — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:30:51 +0000

For an example of national policies relating to youth in two contexts, please click here: Uganda & Nepal Youth Overviews 2009.

Filed under: Post-Conflict Transitions, Updates and News

DFID Youth Mapping Study, 2007

sarahhuxley — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:51:55 +0000

In 2007 DFID commissioned an international situational assessment of their work with and for youth. This was the catalyst for the Youth Guidacne Project. Please click here to view the DFID Youth-Mapping Study_Oct 2007.

Posted in Part 3: Our process

Process Evaluation of YGP

sarahhuxley — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:46:19 +0000

As this project has been rather unusual – in its participatory approach to producing a Guide - it was crucial that the YGP Team and partners were given the opportunity to reflect and learn from the process. Parts of the evaluation will be acknowledged in Part 3 of the Guide.

We also hope that this will be a useful resource for colleagues hoping to develop national guides, conduct Sharing and Learning Networks and use/ adapt any aspect of the project.

The report was written by a young development Masters student over a period of 12 days, and thus offers initial insight.

Please click here for the YGP Evaluation Report Final 6-1-10 MK.

Posted in Part 3: Our process

Focus Groups with young people: Review and uptake of the Guide

sarahhuxley — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:38:58 +0000

In December 2009 and January 2010 the YGP Team (led by our Youth Participation Officers) conducted small focus groups in Nepal, Uganda and the UK.

The aims being to:

Raise awareness of the guide
Elicit feedback on format and content from a youth perspective
Generate ideas for next steps in maximising value of guide (uptake and use)

We hope that the reports will be useful for wider initiatives working with young people, as there are many useful reflections from across the three countries. Thank you to those that participated!

Sarah

Please click on the relevant country to access their draft report: Uganda-YGP FGD 2010, Nepal FGD report Dec 09 & YGP Jan 2010 FG Minutes – UK.

Posted in Governance & Accountability, Part 3: Our process, Reflections and Questions, Updates and News

Case Study # 20: Measuring Adolescent Empowerment

sarahhuxley — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:28:14 +0000

1) Questions

2) ME Report Mainbody

Posted in Part 2: Case studies and Resources

Case Study #18: Country Level Youth Indicators

sarahhuxley — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:04:36 +0000

1) Example indicators from the Commonwealth Plan of Action for Youth Empowerment Example youth Indicators

2) UNDESA on Youth Development Indicators: http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unyin/youthindicators1.htm

Posted in Governance & Accountability, Part 2: Case studies and Resources

Case Study # 17: Launching a Youth Led Partner

sarahhuxley — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:57:28 +0000

1) JYAN Advocacy Toolkit: see http://blog.ygproject.org/2009/09/29/jyan-advocacy-toolkit/

2) ‘Youth Led Organizations and SRHR’ (a step by step guide to establishing youth NGOs that goes wider than the SRHR sector): http://www.youthcoalition.org/site08/html/home_article.php?id_art=210andid_cat=1

3) Inter-American Development Bank: www.iadb.org

4) YEN/UNIDO/ILO/UNDP Youth-led Development Project in West Africa, see: www.mruyouthplatform.org

Posted in Governance & Accountability, Part 2: Case studies and Resources

Case Study # 14:SRHR Peer Education

sarahhuxley — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:17:34 +0000

1) Formative and vulnerability research that informs campaign strategies targeting young people: http://www.yeahuganda.org/research/formative.php

2) Order Y.E.A.H Men and HIV and AIDS manual for training peer educators: http://www.yeahuganda.org/participate/who.php

3) The Youth Guidance Project Sharing and Learning Network session in Uganda on SRHR http://blog.ygproject.org/2009/09/10/“we-all-recognize-the-importance-of-engaging-young-people-with-srh-and-hivaids-efforts-–-what-have-we-learned-so-far-about-how-to-do-this-effectively/

Posted in Part 2: Case studies and Resources, SRH & HIV

Case Study # 13: SRHR mainstreaming into the Education Sector

sarahhuxley — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:06:38 +0000

1) Operations Research Toolkit http://www.popcouncil.org/Horizons/ORToolkit/index.htm

2) ‘FRONTIERS’ Programme Legacy findings:http://www.popcouncil.org/frontiers/Legacy/03Youth.htm

3) Multisectoral ARH Interventions: The Scale Up Process in Kenya and Senegal: http://www.popcouncil.org/pdfs/frontiers/pbriefs/PB13.pdf

4) UNFPA/EU Reproductive Health Imitative for Youth in Asia: http://www.asia-initiative.org/

5) Toolkit for Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS in Education (UNAIDS 2008):

http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=41670andURL_DO=DO_TOPICandURL_SECTION=201.html

Posted in Part 2: Case studies and Resources, SRH & HIV