Manual for Peace

Building Peace in Ourselves, Our Friendships, and Our Communities

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Youth Work: Women Upskilling Young Women

Why youth work is essential for young women in Africa

HOW TO CREATE A SUCCESSFUL YOUTH CLUB

The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If [...]

WHAT IS A YOUTH GROUP

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life [...]

DEVELOPING EFFECTIVE YOUTH ACTIVITIES

Chidi has always loved cooking. As a teenager, she spent hours cooking for her family [...]

UNDERSTANDING YOUR COMMUNITY’S NEEDS

What we realise is that we can’t really answer these questions. Chidi worked really hard, [...]

WHY START A YOUTH CLUB

Leadership is about falling in love with the people you serve and the people falling [...]

UNDERSTANDING YOUR YOUTH CLUB’S GOALS

If you don’t understand, ask questions. If you’re uncomfortable about asking questions, say you are [...]

DESIGNING AN ACTIVITY TO MEET YOUNG WOMEN’S NEEDS

Every one of us can make a contribution. And quite often we are looking for [...]

HOW TO INVOLVE OTHERS IN YOUR YOUTH PROJECT

Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or [...]

Building Effective Youth Organisations

How to start, develop and sustain your youth project

YOUTH WORK MATTERS

Our children are our greatest treasure. They are our future. Nelson Mandela Usually, when we [...]

WHAT IS YOUTH WORK?

I know many university students and recent graduates in my community. Honestly, sometimes I am [...]

WHAT IS A YOUTH WORKER?

I wouldn’t have called myself a youth worker. I just thought I was using my [...]

HELPING EACH GIRL TO THRIVE

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do [...]

YOUTH WORKERS AS ROLE MODELS

To be a youth worker is like being a mother – the children and young [...]

PREPARING YOUNG WOMEN FOR THE FUTURE

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. [...]

WOMEN AND GIRLS RECOGNISING OUR POTENTIAL

In my university all of the societies have a male student as chairman. The chairman [...]

CREATING LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS FOR AFRICAN GIRLS

Many of the girls we work with are deeply insecure. Their streets, homes and schools [...]

Impact Measurement as a Gift to Leaders

Demonstrate your work is effective to attract funding and support

UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT OF OUR WORK WITH YOUNG WOMEN AND HOW TO MEASURE IT

You can’t improve what you can’t measure. Anon This guidance on measuring impact and developing [...]

USEFUL MEASURING IN YOUR YOUTH PROJECT

Chidi was a little lost. She knew she needed to measure things to prove the [...]

WHO NEEDS TO KNOW YOUR YOUTH CLUB IS EFFECTIVE?

In Toolkit 1 we looked at Stakeholders. These are the people who have an interest [...]

IMPACT MEASUREMENT AS A GIFT TO YOUTH CLUB LEADERS

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that [...]

ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR YOUR YOUTH CLUB

People in poverty typically feel deeply ashamed at being unable to fulfil their personal aspirations [...]

SHARING YOUR IMPACT WITH DONORS AND FUNDERS

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are. Oprah Winfrey [...]

YOUR YOUTH CLUB’S IMPACT CAN INSPIRE DONORS

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by [...]

REPORTING TO DONORS WHEN IT ISN’T STRAIGHTFORWARD

I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start [...]

Developing Young Women’s Leadership Through Youth Work

Preparing young women to be future leaders through mentoring

WHAT QUALITIES WILL THE NEXT GENERATION OF FEMALE AFRIAN LEADERS HAVE

If we mention the word ‘leader’ in Africa, we most likely picture a man. We [...]

DESIGNING EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP PROGRAMMES FOR YOUNG AFRICAN WOMEN

If we lead leadership programmes for young African Women, we have to ask ourselves, as [...]

OPPORTUNITIES TO PRACTICE LEADERSHIP

Volunteering can be an excellent opportunity to practice leadership skills, whether this is taking on [...]

GIVING YOUNG WOMEN THE CHANCE TO FAIL BUILDS LEADERSHIP

Allowing young women to make mistakes is smarter than spoon-feeding them. Experience of making mistakes, [...]

MODELLING LEADERSHIP AS AFRICAN YOUTH WORKERS

We each need to ask ourselves, as youth workers, whether we see ourselves as leaders. [...]

HOW TO USE THIS TOOLKIT TO MENTOR AFRICAN GIRLS AND BUILD THEIR LEADERSHIP

This Mentoring Toolkit has been developed by youth workers in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa [...]

WHY MENTORING MATTERS TO YOUNG WOMEN IN AFRICA

“Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full [...]

CHARACTER TRAIT JOURNEY

The mentoring journey for young women starts with self-awareness and goal setting; these resources are [...]

Better Connected? Digital Skills and Young Women

Use this toolkit to help young women navigate the digital world

YOUNG AFRICAN WOMEN & DIGITAL EMPOWERMENT

If you can find your footing between two cultures, you can have the best of [...]

HOW ARE YOUNG WOMEN INTRODUCED TO THE DIGITAL WORLD?

Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master. Christian Lange It is interesting to [...]

AFRICAN YOUTH WORKERS READY FOR THE DIGITAL WORLD

We cannot always build a future for the youth but we can build our youth [...]

COMPARING YOUTH WORKERS AND YOUNG PEOPLE’S DIGITAL WORLDS

As African women working with young women and girls, we realised that there was a [...]

FUELLING AFRICAN GIRLS’ LOW CONFIDENCE AND DREAMS ONLINE

As youth workers working with young women and girls in Africa, we see how social [...]

ONLINE SAFETY

Awino began to make many new friends online, and some began asking to meet her. [...]

HOW CYBER BULLYING AFFECTS AFRICAN GIRLS

Awino has missed one week of school. She refuses to leave the house, and her [...]

ONLINE SCAMS AND YOUNG AFRICAN WOMEN

Awino was coming to the end of her studies, and she and her classmates were [...]

Creating Safe Places that Empower Women and Girls

Ensure that your youth project keeps women and girls safe

PROJECT GROW SAFEGUARDING

Introduction As women, educators and youth workers, protecting – safeguarding – children – in our [...]

WHAT IS SAFEGUARDING AND CHILD PROTECTION?

When we, as youth organisations, started our work on safeguarding, many of us felt that [...]

SAFEGUARDING ISN’T A FOREIGN CONCEPT

Sometimes we feel we are doing things well, our projects benefit the women and girls [...]

SAFEGUARDING POLICIES AND PROCEDURES PROTECT YOUTH WORKERS

Youth workers working with children and young people often feel overwhelmed already. There is so [...]

DEFINING SAFEGUARDING AND UNDERSTANDING ABUSE

It’s essential that youth workers and youth organisations can recognise the signs and symptoms of [...]

SIGNS OF ABUSE – WHAT YOUTH WORKERS NEED TO KNOW

As youth workers working with young women and girls over a period of time, we [...]

WHO NEEDS TO BE SAFEGUARDED?

As women from different African countries and cultural backgrounds, one of the challenges we had [...]

WHEN IS IT OK TO PHYSICALLY PUNISH A CHILD?

In our discussions on abuse, we realised that each of us had different ideas of [...]

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Manual for Peace

Building Peace in Ourselves, Our Friendships, and Our Communities

Youth Work: Women Upskilling Young Women

Why youth work is essential for young women in Africa

HOW TO CREATE A SUCCESSFUL YOUTH CLUB

WHAT IS A YOUTH GROUP

DEVELOPING EFFECTIVE YOUTH ACTIVITIES

UNDERSTANDING YOUR COMMUNITY’S NEEDS

WHY START A YOUTH CLUB

UNDERSTANDING YOUR YOUTH CLUB’S GOALS

DESIGNING AN ACTIVITY TO MEET YOUNG WOMEN’S NEEDS

HOW TO INVOLVE OTHERS IN YOUR YOUTH PROJECT

Building Effective Youth Organisations

How to start, develop and sustain your youth project

YOUTH WORK MATTERS

WHAT IS YOUTH WORK?

WHAT IS A YOUTH WORKER?

HELPING EACH GIRL TO THRIVE

YOUTH WORKERS AS ROLE MODELS

PREPARING YOUNG WOMEN FOR THE FUTURE

WOMEN AND GIRLS RECOGNISING OUR POTENTIAL

CREATING LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS FOR AFRICAN GIRLS

Impact Measurement as a Gift to Leaders

Demonstrate your work is effective to attract funding and support

UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT OF OUR WORK WITH YOUNG WOMEN AND HOW TO MEASURE IT

USEFUL MEASURING IN YOUR YOUTH PROJECT

WHO NEEDS TO KNOW YOUR YOUTH CLUB IS EFFECTIVE?

IMPACT MEASUREMENT AS A GIFT TO YOUTH CLUB LEADERS

ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR YOUR YOUTH CLUB

SHARING YOUR IMPACT WITH DONORS AND FUNDERS

YOUR YOUTH CLUB’S IMPACT CAN INSPIRE DONORS

REPORTING TO DONORS WHEN IT ISN’T STRAIGHTFORWARD

Developing Young Women’s Leadership Through Youth Work

Preparing young women to be future leaders through mentoring

WHAT QUALITIES WILL THE NEXT GENERATION OF FEMALE AFRIAN LEADERS HAVE

DESIGNING EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP PROGRAMMES FOR YOUNG AFRICAN WOMEN

OPPORTUNITIES TO PRACTICE LEADERSHIP

GIVING YOUNG WOMEN THE CHANCE TO FAIL BUILDS LEADERSHIP

MODELLING LEADERSHIP AS AFRICAN YOUTH WORKERS

HOW TO USE THIS TOOLKIT TO MENTOR AFRICAN GIRLS AND BUILD THEIR LEADERSHIP

WHY MENTORING MATTERS TO YOUNG WOMEN IN AFRICA

CHARACTER TRAIT JOURNEY

Better Connected? Digital Skills and Young Women

Use this toolkit to help young women navigate the digital world

YOUNG AFRICAN WOMEN & DIGITAL EMPOWERMENT

HOW ARE YOUNG WOMEN INTRODUCED TO THE DIGITAL WORLD?

AFRICAN YOUTH WORKERS READY FOR THE DIGITAL WORLD

COMPARING YOUTH WORKERS AND YOUNG PEOPLE’S DIGITAL WORLDS

FUELLING AFRICAN GIRLS’ LOW CONFIDENCE AND DREAMS ONLINE

ONLINE SAFETY

HOW CYBER BULLYING AFFECTS AFRICAN GIRLS

ONLINE SCAMS AND YOUNG AFRICAN WOMEN

Creating Safe Places that Empower Women and Girls

Ensure that your youth project keeps women and girls safe

PROJECT GROW SAFEGUARDING

WHAT IS SAFEGUARDING AND CHILD PROTECTION?

SAFEGUARDING ISN’T A FOREIGN CONCEPT

SAFEGUARDING POLICIES AND PROCEDURES PROTECT YOUTH WORKERS

DEFINING SAFEGUARDING AND UNDERSTANDING ABUSE

SIGNS OF ABUSE – WHAT YOUTH WORKERS NEED TO KNOW

WHO NEEDS TO BE SAFEGUARDED?

WHEN IS IT OK TO PHYSICALLY PUNISH A CHILD?

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