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From the Youth Movement Secretariat:
Local Team Organizing Guide - English - Português - Español -
A guide to organizing a local chapter of the Youth Movement for Democracy. The current focus of the Movement is to promote LOCAL networking. If you want to participate in the Movement, the best thing you can do is organize locally.
Chapter Organizing Guide - English - Português - Español -
The role of national chapters is to coordinate a strong base of local teams. So first we need these local teams!! The Secretariat will not endorse any national chapters until the country has local teams that need coordinating. If your local team has already developed a strong local network, then check out this guide and think about serving as a national or regional organizer.
Youth Forum for Democracy and Political Participation - English
- Português -
A guide to holding a forum for youth in your community to develop a Local Youth Platform and meet with local political leaders to discuss issues of concern to youth. We strongly encourage YMD members to hold these events to build unity in local youth groups, engage youth with the political process, and strengthen the influence of youth in local government.
Developing Your Fundraising Strategy, - English - Português - Español -
adapted from the OIYP Skills Pack Fundraising Module, from Oxfam International Youth Parliament
This is an adaptation of a fundraising guide developed by the OIYP for use in their recent Trade Justice Project. It lays out some basic steps to raising funds for an event, specifically travel to a conference or training. This is a good resource for members hoping to attend the Global Youth Conference on Democracy and Political Participation in December.
The following resources have been developed by organizations outside the YMD. We have collected them here because we find them useful. Please deliver credit to those who made them.
However, let us know if you come across a problem with a resource, or if you have an idea for another resource we should list here!
Action Plan - English - Español - Français -
A civil society toolkit, from CIVICUS, meant for those with little planning experience.
CIVICUS also offers other great civil society toolkits in English, French and Spanish on the following topics: Writing Effectively & Powerfully, Writings Within Your Organization, Producing Your Own Media, Handling the Media, Promoting Your Organization, Planning Overview, Monitoring and Evaluation, Strategic Planning, Developing a Financing Strategy, Financial Controls and Accountability, Writing a Funding Proposal, and Budgeting.
Visit CIVICUS and click on "Resources and Services" then "Civil Society Toolkits"
A better network: Publishing Local Calendars
- English
- Português
- Español -
from Global Youth Action Network - English - Español - Português -
How to publish a local calendar of youth opportunities and resources.
A better network: Facilitating Collaboration - English
from Global Youth Action Network - English - Español - Português -
Guide youth organizers through the process of holding dialogues on collaboration
A better network: Monthly Dinners - English
- Português
- Español -
from Global Youth Action Network - English - Español - Português -
Organizing an informal, monthly local gathering of young activists and allies
Activist's Handbook - English -
from protest.net
The articles in this handbook are republished from Activism 101 and the Freedom Writer. They tend to be amero-centric, but even with these biases they are a pretty good practical introduction to being politically active.
An Introduction to Advocacy Training Guide - English -
from USAID Development Experience Clearing House
This guide provides the tools for people to start engaging in the advocacy process, and is thus designed to: inform a diverse audience of potential advocates about advocacy and its methods; build some basic skills in advocacy; increase the use of available data to inform the advocacy process; give confidence to those who are embarking on advocacy efforts; encourage the democratic process by providing people with the skills to make their voices heard.
Communicating with the Public: Message Development and Delivery - English -
From the National Democratic Institute
This workshop focuses on the process of developing an appealing message. It discusses how a message is different from a slogan or a platform, how to identify a receptive target audience, staying on message, and the importance of using appropriate messengers. The workshop also provides concrete tools useful in developing a message, including the "Message Box" and "Issue Saliency Chart." It suggests ways to test and deliver a message and presents examples of successful and unsuccessful messages.
Guide to Action - English - Español - Français -
from TakingITGlobal - English - Español - Français - Português - Russian - Arabic
This free, downloadable guide to action helps readers explore issues they care about, and suggests ways they can take action and involve others in making a positive difference.
Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents - English -
Français -
Chinese -
Arabic -
Farsi
from Reporters Without Borders - English - Español - Français -
A guide designed for bloggers who post news from within authoritarian nations. Since most mainstream media - radio, television, newspapers, etc - faces intense pressure from the state in such environments, bloggers represent one of the few ways to release information about the real situation inside a dictatorship to the outside world.
How to Determine Your Desired Outcomes For Change - English -
from ChangeResources.com - English -
Tips on how to determine and refine your desired outcomes so they generate high levels of commitment and align collective action across your organization.
How to Run a Workshop - English -
from networklearning
- English -
Somali -
Français -
A 35 pg long document explaining how to plan a workshop's content and logistics, as well as how to run the workshop. Provides checklists to help in the planning and running of workshop.
Identifying and Understanding the Targets of Your Change - English -
from ChangeResources.com - English -
A tool to help you determine the various groups impacted by your change effort, and identify what they each will need to fully commit to making the change a success.
Increasing Citizen Participation through Advocacy Efforts:
A Guidebook for Program Development - English -
from Access Democracy
- English -
Produced by the National Democratic Institute from meetings in 2000, this guidebook contains information on how to improve the organization, implementation and evaluation of advocacy programs, as a means of increasing citizens' political participation.
Making Commitments Matter: A toolkit for young people to evaluate national youth policy - English -
from International Institute for Child Rights and Development
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This Toolkit should be used as a starting point for determining what a government, and civil society has done to better the lives of young people. In addition it provides methods for evaluating this progress and also contains concrete tools to further youth work.
Organize to Win, A Grassroots Activist's Handbook:
A Guide To Help People Organize Community Campaigns - English -
from Jim Britell
Good, comprehensive text that explains the essential elements of an effective grassroots campaign, gives tips about achieving support, and contains chapters about different lobbying techniques.
Public Participation Toolbox - English -
from Vancouver Community Network
A 10 page document highlighting different tools and techniques of public participation, as well as tips on what to think about and what can go wrong.
Quick Tips: VMOSA: Defining your Vision, Mission, Objectives, Strategies and Action Plan - English -
from Community Tool Box
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Español -
Quick Tips: Recruiting, Retaining and Recognizing Volunteers - English -
from Community Tool Box - English - Español -
Ten Steps to a Results-Based Monitoring and Evaluation System:
A Handbook for Development Practitioners - English -
from the World Bank
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and many more -
An extensive resource related to issues surrounding good governance, accountability and transparency, greater development effectiveness, and the delivery of tangible results by governments.
The Ten Most Important Things You Can Know About Fundraising - English -
from Grassroots Fundraising Journal - English -
A list of the ten most important things about fundraising as far as author Kim Klein is concerned. She does not rank them in any order of importance.
Volunteer Sustainability: How Nonprofits Can Sustain Volunteers' Commitment - English -
From Snapshots newsletter that provides research highlights from the Nonprofit Sector Research Fund of the Aspen Institute.
Youth Source Book on Sustainable Development:
Section 2: Youth Working and Organizing for Action - English -
from the International Institute for Sustainable Development - English -
The Youth Sourcebook contains information on youth's concerns with sustainable development issues, case studies of youth action, together with advice on how to organize for action, useful resource lists, and finally a Directory of international and regional youth organizations.
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