Digital Development
Resources and examples for youth programming focused on youth engagement and leadership in digital development and enabling technologies:
Policy & Strategy
Youth Statistics
Best Practices
- Considerations for Using Data Responsibly (USAID)
- Digital Civic Engagement by Young People (UNICEF)
- CivicSpace.Tech
- Informing Social and Behavior Change Programs: Using Social Listening and Social Monitoring (Breakthrough RESEARCH)
- Understanding the Costs of SBC Social Media Interventions (Breakthrough RESEARCH)
Program Design
- Checklist for Overcoming Digital Barriers to Inclusion in Online Learning (IREX)
- A Toolkit for Using Digital Payments in Development Programs (USAID)
- Managing Machine Learning Projects in International Development (USAID)
Curricula
Networks and Communities of Practice
Examples
CyberRwanda (Rwanda)
Global LEAD Models: Youth Advisory Councils; Youth Clubs or Groups; Youth Centers; Youth Camps or Retreats; Internships or Apprenticeships; Leadership Training; Advocacy Training; Peer Mentoring; Peer Educators; Peer Mobilizers; Youth-Led Media, Art, or Performance; Digital Literacy Training; Youth-Led Research; Youth Designers
- Using Digital Education to Improve the Health and Livelihoods of Urban Adolescents (Program Overview)
- CyberRwanda (Case Study)
Game of Choice, Not Chance (India)
Global LEAD Models: Youth Advisory Councils; Youth-Led Research; Youth Designers
- Game of Choice, Not Chance (Initiative Website)
- Game of Choice, Not Chance (Case Study)
- Introducing a Game of Choice, Not Chance (Video)
Learn to Discern (Global)
Global LEAD models: Media Literacy Training
- Learn to Discern (L2D) - Media Literacy Training (Program Overview)
- Learn to Discern Fact Sheet (Program Overview)
- Evaluation of Students’ Ability to Detect Disinformation After Learning Media Literacy Techniques in School (Evaluation Report)
- Impact Study on Citizens’ Ability to Detect Disinformation 1.5 Years After Completing a News Media Literacy Program (Impact Report)
- Learn to Discern: Citizen Media Literacy in Ukraine and Beyond (Video)
Youth Digital Champions (Global)
Global LEAD Models: Youth Networks; Digital Literacy Training; Leadership Training; Advocacy Training
- Youth Digital Champions - mEducation Alliance Signature Activity (Program Overview)
- Youth Digital Champions - YDC Case Study Winners (Program Highlights)
YouThink (North Macedonia)
Global LEAD Models: Youth Advisory Councils; Youth Clubs or Groups; Youth Networks; Peer Educators; Youth-Led Media, Art, or Performance; Debate; Media Literacy Training
- YouThink: Media Literacy in North Macedonia (Program Overview)
YouthMappers (Global)
Global LEAD Models: Youth Clubs or Groups; Youth Networks; Peer Mobilizers; Youth-Led Media, Art, or Performance; Digital Literacy Training; Youth-Led Research; Small Grants for Youth-Led Organizations or Projects
- YouthMappers (Program Website)
- YouthMappers Press Kit (Program Overview)
- YouthMappers Resource Library (Curricula, Tools)
















