This toolkit provides effective tips and links to tools for youth program implementers and USAID staff to apply when carrying out gender- and/or youth-focused analysis during the start-up phases for:

(a) Youth-specific economic-growth programming targeting female youth or male and female youth, and;

(b) Youth-inclusive economic-growth programming targeting beneficiaries of different ages, including female youth or male and female youth.

(c) The purpose of this toolkit is not to provide guidance on how to carry out an analysis, but to provide examples of best practices and links to tools that IPs can apply to ensure that information about young women’s needs, interests, challenges, and opportunities are adequately captured during the analysis process.

The toolkit:

• Introduces different frameworks and demonstrates how they can be consolidated;
• Presents a checklist for youth-focused gender analysis; and
• Provides descriptions of and links to 25 tools from USAID, IPs, and other donors that can be used to carry out or supplement youth-focused gender analysis.

Some of the recommended tools were designed specifically to target young women, and how to apply them is relatively straightforward, while others that were designed for broader demographic targets (e.g., male and female youth, women of different ages) may require some revision before being rolled out for young women specifically. The toolkit does not respond to country or regional differences, meaning that IPs and other users will be able to adapt the questions based on activity parameters and specific circumstances in their zone of influence.

Audiences

While the primary audience for the toolkit is USAID IPs, the analysis recommendations can also be applied to the Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS) or the Project Development Document (PDD) phases and will also be relevant to host-country governments or other donors working in the same technical areas.

Access the Toolkit and associated USAID Mission Brief below.