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Take Action Guides


GENERAL TAKE ACTION GUIDES

Youth Noise Take Action Guides
YouthNoise Toolkits aren't like other toolkits. They are made by youth from a youth perspective.  They include easy to follow steps and tips for all types of activist action. 

UNICEF - Voices of Youth - Take Action online Guide
Learn the skills you need to start your own community project. You can find lots of great ideas in these pages.

ANTI-OPPRESSION

Fire It Up! A Toolkit for Youth Action
We live in a world full of inequalities and injustices. As a youth organizer, not only will you join the struggle to battle these injustices, but you will find yourself trapped within them as they affect the way you relate to others, how your group works, and the way you approach different issues. The Youth Action Network’s Fire It Up! Toolkit will help you integrate an anti-oppression framework into all your organizing efforts.

ENVIRONMENT / SUSTAINABLE LIVING

Climate Change Youth Guide to Action
TakingITGlobal's has created this guide to inspire, inform and involve students in taking action on climate change.

The Otesha Book
The Otesha book is a behind-the-scenes look at how our daily actions change the world! Packed with cool graphics, it presents knowledge and facts that help remove our blinders and make us aware of some of the problems in the world.  It shares interesting and inspiring stories and offers many ideas for taking the easy, fun, beautiful actions that can make our world a better place.

Wetland Monitoring Guide
Wetlands are among the most productive ecosystems in the world, comparable to rain forests and coral reefs.  They also play an integral role in the ecology of a watershed: filtering pollutants out of the water, and providing habitat to a huge diversity of plant and animal species.  The EPA’s Wetland Monitoring Guide outlines the steps you need to take to protect your local wetland.

YEN Green Justice Guide
Part1 and Part 2
The Youth Environmental Network’s guide to bringing Green Justice into your school and community – and this doesn’t just mean recycling more, it means fair and equal food, water, and spaces for people across the planet!

Training Kit on Responsible Consumption
A training kit on responsible consumption by YOUTHXCHANGE, UNEP and UNESCO that demonstrate to young people that it is possible for all of us to translate our aspirations for a better world into everyday actions.

FAIR TRADE

Make Trade Fair Campaign Toolkit
Whether you write letters, send emails, organise events, promote the campaign through your local newspaper, radio or TV station, or take other actions, your support for Make Trade Fair is valuable and vital. The Campaign Toolkit here will take you through a whole set of resources which will help you in your campaigning.

HIV/AIDS

HIV/AIDS Youth Guide to Action
This comprehensive guide by TakingITGlobal contains inspiring stories and useful resources for youth; all the necessary tools to help carry out your project, raise awareness, and help stop the spread of HIV/AIDS.

Toolkit to Raise Awareness about Children Orphaned by AIDS
The Youth United for Global Action and Awareness toolkit gives you all the information you need to raise awareness in your community about AIDS, and the impact that this disease is having on children around the world.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Amnesty International Activist Toolkit
Amnesty International is a worldwide movement of people who stand together with individuals and communities around the world who human rights are under attack.  The AI Activist Toolkit was created to help people plan activities and actions to promote the respect of human rights of people around the world.

Free the Children Youth In Action Start-up Kit
A guide on how you can get involved the projects and campaigns of Free the Children -a unique, innovative and established youth-driven international charity.

Millennium Development Goals Youth Action Guide
This guide was created by TakingITGlobal to inform, inspire, and encourage people's involvement in the realization of the Millennium Development Goals - An initiative of the United Nations.  The campaign supports citizens' efforts to hold their governments accountable for their promise to achieve the Goals by 2015.