Youth Leadership for Development
Links

Community and Youth Development

• Advocates for Youth
• Baobab Connections
• Canadian International Development Agency Youth Zone
• Community Youth Development Journal
• Global Youth Service Day
• HeartWood Institute - Centre for Community Youth LeadershipCommunity Capacity-Building Glossary
• The Innovation Center for community and youth development.
• International Child and Youth Care Network (CYC-NET)
• International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
• Taking IT Global
• UNFPA Youth Participation
• Children and Youth resources from the World Bank.
• Youth Action Net
• Youth and the United Nations
• Youth Communication helps teenagers develop their reading and writing skills and make responsible choices about their lives.

Children’s Rights

• Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children
• Save the Children Canada
• UNICEF Voices of Youth
• Free the Children, children helping children through education.

Leadership

• The Life Skills Centre for Leadership

Readings for Philosophy of Development

• The Free-Trade Fix, by Tina Rosenberg (2002), New York Times article on globalization.
• Global Civil Society and the Challenges of the New Millennium, by Kumi Naidoo & Volkhart Finn Heinrich (2000).
• Some Key Issues in Cancun, by Martin Khor (2003).
• Sustainable Development in a Neo-liberal Frame, by Ewa Charkiewicz (n.d.), Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN).

Sustainable Development/Livelihoods

• The Foundation for Development Cooperation
• Global System for Sustainable Development
• Livelihoods Connect, from Eldis.

Sexual and Reproductive Health

• Canada AIDS Society, youth resources.
• Public Health Agency of Canada, childhood and adolescence resources.
• Health Initiatives for Youth
• Youth and communication, The Soul Beat, issue #6, (2003).
• Planet Ahead provides answers to questions about sexual health.
• Spiderbytes, created by Planned Parenthood Toronto, contains resources pertaining to youth and sexual and reproductive health.
• Positive Youth Outreach is an organization where members have access to a safe place where they can interact with one another.
• HIV InSite, powerful website for youth.
• Staying Alive Campaign
• Brown, E., Collison, B., & Rogers-Currie, N. (2002). Youth and the global HIV/AIDS crisis: A tool-kit for action.

Miscellaneous

• Action Aid
• Center for Global Development (CGD)
• Development Gateway