DUF's international toolbox
DUF has created a toolbox with documents and brochures to inspire your work with international projects or partnerships.
On this page, you can download materials that support and assist you in planning and carrying out international projects. The toolbox is intended as a conversation starter for your project. All the documents are in English, so you can also use them in your partnership.
The entire toolbox booklet can be downloaded as a PDF here.
Partnership- and Project Development
At DUF, we believe that strong partnerships are built on equality, shared ownership, and mutual learning. Through collaboration across organizations, young people have the opportunity to develop projects that create sustainable and lasting change both locally and globally.
- The Partnership Agreement can be used to clarify expectations and frameworks within a collaboration, thereby strengthening trust, dialogue, and shared ownership in the partnership.
- The Partnership Agreement Template is a tool that can be used to create a clear and mutual agreement that ensures structure, transparency, and sustainability in a partnership.
- The problem tree and development of solutions can be used to analyze the causes and consequences of a problem and identify the most effective solutions.
Monitoring and evaluation
DUF believes that monitoring and evaluation are essential for generating learning and ensuring that projects lead to the desired changes. Through systematic documentation, reflection, and adjustment along the way, youth organizations can strengthen their efforts and build on their experiences.
- Most significant change stories is a tool that can be used to collect and analyze stories about the most important changes in a project and use them for learning and evaluation.
- M&E based on the logical Framework Approach can be used to follow up on whether the project's activities, outputs, and objectives are aligned, and to ensure learning throughout the process.
- Timelines can be used to create an overview of a project's course and to discuss key events, decisions, and outcomes along the way.
Organisational anchoring
At DUF, we believe that organizational anchoring is crucial to ensure that international projects and activities create lasting value. When projects become an integrated part of an organization’s work, both international engagement and the organization’s overall development are strengthened.
- Organisational anchoring is a tool that can be used to ensure that international activities become an integrated part of the organization’s work and generate lasting value.
Safety and responsible behavior
- The Travel Checklist can be used to thoroughly prepare for a project or monitoring trip and avoid practical challenges and stressful situations.
- The Risk Matrix can be used to identify and assess potential safety risks in international projects and find ways to prevent and manage them.
Financial Management
Advocay
At DUF, we believe that young people’s voices are essential for lasting societal change. Advocacy is a targeted effort where you, as young people, can influence decision-makers, hold them accountable, and ensure that youth perspectives have a place in democracy.
- How to do an advocacy strategy is a tool you can use if you want to develop a clear plan for how to achieve your advocacy goals.
- The Context analysis for advocacy can be used to map the local political, social, and economic context of your issue and identify where change is possible.
- Power map and stakeholder analysis is a tool that can help you identify who holds power and influence on an issue, and how you can best engage with them.
- Know, Feel, Do can be used to craft clear messages and clarify what decision-makers should know, feel, and do.
Organisational development
DUF believes that organizational development is essential for building strong and democratic youth organizations, where young people have real influence and lasting opportunities for engagement.
- Understanding organizations is a tool you can use if you need a visual overview of your organization’s dynamics and challenges.
- The onion skin model can be used to understand how the inner layers of an organization are connected – from values and relationships to administration and resources.
- Rich picture can be used when you want a visual overview of your organization’s dynamics and challenges.
Volunterism
At DUF, we believe that volunteerism is the foundation for young people's participation in organizational life and democracy. When young people take on responsibility and gain influence as volunteers, it strengthens their engagement, the communities within organizations, and their role as active citizens.
Gender and Equality
DUF believes that all young people, regardless of gender, should have equal rights, opportunities, and influence. Working with gender is about breaking down barriers and ensuring that both young women and men can fully participate in and contribute to organizations and society.
- Gender Boxes can be used if you want to explore social expectations related to gender and understand how norms affect young people's roles and opportunities in organizations and society.
- Gender Matrix can be used to examine roles, responsibilities, and opportunities for all genders, and to ensure that projects take gender equality into account.
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