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NGOs/CSOs Support to Youth Movements

On this page you can find tools, frameworks, and guides on how NGOs and CSOs best can support young people and student movements on climate education and advocacy.

Tools, frameworks, and guides

  • Building a Movement Mindset: A guide for civil society organisations

    The purpose of this guide is to help CSOs and others change organisational culture and practice to better understand and support social movements so they can achieve systemic change together.

  • Theory of Change: Youth leadership, engagement, and participation

    This document is a tool to help design and guide strategies for collective impact by supporting youth leadership, engagement and participation.

  • Pathways to resilience: Plan International's resilience framework

    The framework outlines Plan International’s approach to resilience programming and can be contextualised for different settings (e.g. rural/urban), adapted for different sectors (e.g. education, health), used across development and humanitarian contexts, as well as utilised for a comprehensive resilience standalone programme.

  • Education for Sustainable Development. A roadmap.

    A roadmap for Member States on five priority areas focusing on education and training settings, building capacities of educators, youth as key actors, and local level action.

  • A Decade of Activism: Strategy for ActionAid Denmark/Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke 2023-27

    The stategy adresses the following areas: leadership development, forming new alliances, sustainable options, documentation and analysis and information and campaign.

  • Global Platforms Learning Principles

    The learning principles are the pedagogical background that helps Global Platforms’ trainers to inspire and train youth to become activists and organizers who can create social, political and economic change.

  • Buidling People Power: How to support and stand with movements

    Findings and recommendations from the Copenhagen People Power Conference, September 2023, developed by ActionAid Denmark. The report is written with the aim to create relevance for both conference participants and others interested in becoming better movement allies.

  • Toolbox: Building a Movement Mindset

    This toolkit guide is not just about theoretical concepts; it's a roadmap for action. It is designed to empower CSOs to adapt their organisational culture, practices, and strategies to better align with the ideals of social movements.