Clubs for Youth: Youth Clubs Toolkit

The goal of the Youth Clubs Toolkit is improve the quality of new or existing clubs by identifying areas of improvement through the use of simple checklists and rubrics. Easy to implement guidance is provided in the annexes to support:

• club’s design and structure

• the safety of club members

• the role youth play in leading clubs

• engagement and support from the broader community

• diversity and inclusion in club participation (including leadership roles for girls and young women),

• and ways that clubs and camps can build on each other to strengthen long-term effectiveness and sustainability.

The Toolkit is also available in MS Word to posts translating and adapting resources and templates. .

The toolkit open source and available to anyone or organization.

 Relationship building is an important part of Volunteers supporting clubs not emphasized enough in the Toolkit. (PC/Guyana)

This is a great suggestion!  I would suggest you download the Club Toolkit in Word and adapt the Club Rubic to meet the needs of your post'

Volunteers are engaging with clubs before we have trained them.  Most Volunteers engage with clubs or camps very soon after they arrive to their sites and yet we don't train Volunteers on clubs until re-connect.  

Clubs are one of the easiest ways for Volunteers to engage with children and their community.  If you can't traing them in PST, I would encourage the to engage with existing clubs and how the quality of a club could be defined locally.  Possibly, Volunteers could be given a copy of the Youth Clubs Toolkit when they go to their sites as a resource they could use immediately and they could  share what they learned during re-connect.  Diiscussion of the 9 qualities of a club would be really reach after a Volunteers has spent some time at their sites.