Resources

Berkeley YPAR Hub

YPAR (Youth Participatory Action Research) is an innovative approach to positive youth and community development based in social justice principles. This hub features expansive curriculum and resources to enrich YPAR projects.

NGO-IDEAs: Tiny Tools for Impact Assessment

Communities know a lot about the impact of development projects. They know much about how they made use of the projects, what changed and why it changed. So we need to start a process in which community members find it interesting and beneficial to reflect on the change themselves in a systematic way, and be open and self-critical about it. The NGO-IDEAs Tiny Tools are a relatively simple and quick (“tiny”) way to achieve this.

Strategies to Collect and Make Sense of Youth Participant Data

This resource provides youth-centered data collection and analysis methods that you can use to conduct steps one and two of the process. Try different combinations of listening methods (data collection) and learning methods (data analysis) to find the best fit for your program, staff, and youth participants. The Informed Change process is rooted in equity-focused qualitative methods that create space for young people (and others!) to be heard. 

Facilitation Guides for Participatory Activities

• Body Mapping Guide
• Pairwise Ranking Guide
• Force Field Analysis Guide