Diversity and Inclusion Resources
YouthLead has curated a list of recommended tools and resources to aid you this week as we highlight the importance of diversity and inclusion.
Inclusion
Youth Inclusion in Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance
Courtesy of: YP2LE
It is a reference of considerations for designing, managing, and evaluating youth and democracy, human rights, and governance (DRG)-related programs. Given the cross-sectoral nature of programming, these DRG examples may be relevant for other sectors and, indeed, much of the guidance here was developed with other sectors in mind.
Inclusion Matters: The Foundation for Shared Prosperity
Courtesy of: The World Bank
In many developing countries, the mixed record of state effectiveness, market imperfections, and persistent structural inequities has undermined the effectiveness of social policy. This series has been created to promote debate among the development community, policy makers, and academia, and to broaden understanding of social policy challenges in developing country contexts.
Disability Inclusive Meetings an Operational Guide
Courtesy of: UN ESCAP
This Guide offers ESCAP member States, stakeholders and other interested readers a framework for the planning of disability-inclusive meetings.
Creating a Trans-Inclusive Workplace
Courtesy of: Girls Empowerment Network
Trans people often experience stigma and discrimination, hostility, and pressure to “manage” their identities in social settings—including the workplace. This article delves into how to make transgender employees feel valued at work.
Culture
Collaborating, Learning and Adapting Toolkit
Courtesy of: USAID
Here you will find a growing set of curated tools and resources on collaborating, learning and adapting to help you plan and implement Program Cycle activities more effectively.
Cultural Competence in a Multicultural World: Understanding Culture and Diversity in Building Communities
Courtesy of: The CommunityToolBox
Cultural competence is non-threatening because it acknowledges and validates who people are. By focusing on the organization's culture, it removes the need to place blame and assume guilt. Since becoming culturally competent focuses on the "how-to" of aligning policies and practices with goals, everyone is involved in the process. This toolkit will teach you how to build culturally competent organizations. (Also available in Spanish)
Understanding Culture, Social Organization, and Leadership to Enhance Engagement
Courtesy of: The CommunityToolBox
Social organization refers to the network of relationships in a group and how they interconnect. This network of relationships helps members of a group stay connected to one another in order to maintain a sense of community within a group. This toolkit will help you understand people's culture, community and leadership to enhance engagement. (Also available in Spanish)
Work From Home Culture
Courtesy of: Girls Empowerment Network
When the novel COVID-19 pandemic swept the nation, working from home shifted from luxury to necessity. With a little creativity and a whole lot of vulnerability, here are some initiatives Girls Empowerment Network has introduced to its 100 percent remote team.
Disability
Advancing Disability-Inclusive Development
Courtesy of: USAID
Over 1 billion people, or approximately 15 percent of the world’s population, live with some form of disability. Eighty percent of them live in developing countries. This resource offers a global look at disability.
Youth with Disabilities: Why Focus on Young People with Disabilities?
Courtesy of: United Nations
This publication puts a spotlight of the lives, views and experiences of young people with disabilities from around the developing world. It presents a challenge to policy makers and development agencies to pay greater attention to their needs, concerns, and potential.
Toward a Disability-Inclusive COVID-19 Response: 10 Recommendations from the International Disability Alliance
Courtesy of: International Disability Alliance
In the light of the COVID19 pandemic and its disproportionate impact on persons with disabilities, the International Disability Alliance (IDA) has compiled the following list of the main barriers that persons with disabilities face in this emergency situation along with some practical solutions and recommendations.
Persons with Disabilities – An Untapped Resource
Courtesy of: International Labour Organization
Gain perspective on persons with disabilities from this interview with Mike Hess, Executive Director and founder of the Blind Institute of Technology (BIT).
Gender
Race
Fact Sheet: U.S. Efforts to Combat Systemic Racism
Courtesy of: The White House
Combating systemic racism requires aggressive action to address structures, policies, and practices that contribute to the wealth gap, to health disparities, and to inequalities in educational access, outcomes, and beyond. Here is what the administration is doing to address systemic racism.
Healing from the Effects of Internalized Oppression
Courtesy of: The CommunityToolBox
This toolkit examines the effects that discrimination and oppression have on their targets and how to think about countering them.
Anti-Racism: Taking the Discussion into the Classroom for Pro-Active and Positive Change
Courtesy of: Prince Folorunsho Adegoke MBDFM, State House/Education Correspondent
What does racism do to people and communities? History reveals that on a holistic level, it causes discrimination, which in turn results in harassment and exploitation. On a more personal level, racism causes deep internal pain, which affects the health and well-being of people from all walks of life. This blog post encourages readers to become more proactive in the fight to abolish racism.
Religion
Advancing International Religious Freedom
Courtesy of: USAID
Advancing international religious freedom is a major foreign policy priority of the United States with bipartisan support. This impact brief highlights USAID’s support for religious and ethnic pluralism is an essential part of these efforts to advance human rights and foster self-reliant and inclusive societies.
Accommodating Religious Identity in Youth Peacebuilding Programs
Courtesy of: Search for Common Ground
This toolkit presents an overview of how youth programs across the globe accommodate religion, identifying positive outcomes and challenges from case studies in the field. The toolkit starts by examining the different types of programming engaging young people and their religious identities (inter-, intra-, and non-religious programming), and provides case studies with lessons learned for each.
Religion, Spirituality, Positive Youth Development, and Thriving
Courtesy of: Pamela Ebstyne King, Drew Carr, Ciprian Boitor
Issues of spirituality and thriving are pertinent to the period of adolescence given the marked changes in body, mind, and relationships. In order to provide an overview of the relationship between religion, spirituality, and positive youth development, this chapter offers a developmental systems perspective and proposes a relational spirituality as a framework for understanding adolescent religious and spiritual development.
Religion as a Resource for Positive Youth Development: Religion, Social Capital, and Moral Outcomes
Courtesy of: Ebstyne King, Pamela Furrow, James L.
Although existing literature demonstrates that developmental benefits are associated with religion for adolescents, little is understood about the dynamics of this relationship. Drawing on social capital theory, this study tested a conceptual model exploring socially embedded religious influences on moral outcomes.
A Blog Collecting the Reflections of Religions for Peace Leaders and Partners as they Respond to COVID-19
Courtesy of: Philbert Aganyo
This is a Collection of Reflections from Prominent Religious Leaders, Women and Youth from across the Globe on how the COVID-19 Pandemic has affected their congregations and Communities of Practice.
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