The Youth Guidance Project

Since November 2008 members of the DFID-CSO Working Group on Youth have been developing a ‘How to’ Guide for multi-lateral and bi-lateral donors. The aim of the Guide is to assist, steer and support donor policy and programming with and for youth, by offering a menu list of easy to use resources and case studies of good practice. We are 'practising what we preach' - in that the Project itself (in producing the Guide) is a partnership with young people, who are at the forefront of the research and case study resourcing.

The Guide is currently in draft format, and the next steps are to pilot our ‘bottom up’ approach of sourcing relevant tools/case studies, and extracting key learning’s through ‘Sharing & Learning Networks’ (SLNs)in 2 pilot countries: Uganda & Nepal. The aims of the SLNs are:

• To create a common platform for sharing and learning on aspects of youth participation. • Help to reduce duplicity, encourage effective replication and enhance better understanding of the given topic.

You can find out more on the Youth Guidance Project website.

The picture below is of Samrat Katwal - our Youth Participation Officer in Nepal, who is coordinating the SLNs.

To keep to update with the most recent updates from the from the Youth Guidance Project, please contact Sarah Huxley

Below you can see the latest updates from the Youth Guidance Project.

• The Guide is launched – 30 March 2010!

  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. [...]
• Policies relating to youth in Uganda & Nepal

  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

  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

  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 [...]
• Focus Groups with young people: Review and uptake of the Guide

  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 [...]