Toolkit for Adolescent and Youth Engagement

This toolkit is designed to provide those working in the humanitarian and development sectors with a collection of key tools to support young people’s participation and engagement. It draws on the theory of change, Positive Adolescent Development and the Social Justice Development approach . This toolkit intends to provide guidance for meaningfully engaging adolescents and youth by:

• Integrating systematic adolescent and youth engagement in the programming cycle for all sector responses. Examples include: young people involved in conducting assessments, research and analysis; developing programme methodologies and plans; carrying out peer-to-peer awareness campaigns; implementing programmes; monitoring results; evaluating outcomes and advocating for change. Guidance is provided to promote sector and programme-specific monitoring in young people’s engagement.
• Strengthening adolescent- and youth-led civic, social and economic engagement to empower young people to influence decision-making at community and local levels. Guidance is provided to harmonize indicators and monitoring, especially as relates to outcome indicators over the longer term.

What this document is: This is a context-specific “how to” guide to support the engagement of young people within humanitarian and development programming within the Middle East and North Africa. It also outlines tools to promote and monitor adolescent and youth-led civic, social and economic engagement. Both sets of tools provide specific monitoring tools and promising practices.