This manual is intended for educators and youth group facilitators planning to conduct short filmmaking workshops with adolescents and youth using smartphones. It is accompanied by the participants' workbook. Video tutorials are also available: 1. Plan it 2. Film it 3. Cut it 4. Share it

Learn how to make your own short film about the issues that you care about - with your smartphone. This is Part 1. View Parts 2, 3, and 4. A workshop instructor's manual and participant workbook are also available.

Learn how to make your own short film about the issues that you care about - with your smartphone. This is Part 2. View Parts 1, 3, and 4. A workshop instructor's manual and participant workbook are also available.

This tool offers practical advice for advanced bloggers, allowing you to bring your blogging game to the next level. The document can be found in English, Spanish and French.

End extreme poverty. Fight inequality and injustice. Fix climate change. Whoa. The Sustainable Development Goals are important, world-changing objectives that will require cooperation among governments, international organizations and world leaders. It seems impossible that the average person can make an impact. Should you just give up? No! Change starts with you. Seriously. Every human on earth—even the most indifferent, laziest person among us—is part of the solution. Fortunately, there are some easy things we can adopt into our routines that, if we all do it, will make a big difference...

Learn how to make your own short film about the issues that you care about - with your smartphone. This is Part 3. View Parts 1, 2, and 4. A workshop instructor's manual and participant workbook are also available.

Learn how to make your own short film about the issues that you care about - with your smartphone. This is Part 4. View Parts 1, 2, and 3. A workshop instructor's manual and participant workbook are also available.

Photo credit: UNICEF/Wogram What would child-friendly cities look like, if children were mayors? Check this Child and Youth Manifesto, a document that reflects the words and expressions of the children and young people, to find out. The Child Friendly Cities Initiative (CFCI) Child and Youth Advisory Board, consisting of almost 70 children and young people from around the world, shared this Manifesto and their recommendations with mayors and local leaders at a Summit in the German city of Cologne on 18 October 2019. Read the manifesto here (pdf) También disponible en español What would your...

While schools and other institutions are planning phased openings soon, disruptions are likely to continue for some time to come, emphasizing the need for remote learning and expression opportunities for adolescents. Providing adolescents with such opportunities to build healthy and positive relationships with their peers, friends and family members is an important priority for adolescents’ mental health during lockdowns. Check this package of activities that can be self-administered to promote psychosocial wellbeing and learn new skills in times of stress and while staying at home. The target...

A simple step-by-step guide on developing a digital advocacy campaign.

The Global Development Commons (GDC) is an open-access digital platform that aims to crowdsource evidence and innovations from young people in support of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. The inspiration behind the platform is to create a space for cross-sectorial discussion and problem-solving driven by young people themselves. It is publicly accessible for anyone to contribute and to use it! Governments, policy makers, programme specialists, frontline workers as well as to students, professors, and researchers are highly encouraged to look to this platform for creative and...

This guide offers tips and tricks about blogging and will allow you to acquire basic blogging skills. The document is available in English, Spanish, French and Arabic.

This workbook is intended to accompany the Instructor's Manual on how to conduct short filmmaking workshops with adolescents and youth using smartphones. Video tutorials are also available: 1. Plan it 2. Film it 3. Cut it 4. Share it

This tool offers tips and tricks about blogging and will allow you to acquire basic blogging skills.

The Youth Advocacy Guide has been developed by people of varying ages, with different lived experiences, and a passion for change. It was created through an extensive consultative process, which brought together the voices of young people from various parts of Africa. The guide will take you through the processes of fact-finding, planning, engaging with policy, building momentum, and making individual lifestyle choices. This workbook is designed to accompany the Youth Advocacy Guide, accessible here.