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Best Practices
The Best Practice Showcase on TakingITGlobal will compile and share lessons learned on community development projects from around the world, along with how content on the web has been used for learning and social change. A particular focus will include youth engagement.
A. Personal Information
Name/Title for your Best Practice:
Name:
Email:
Country:
B. Guiding Questions for Narrative
1. Describe the aims and motivation behind your initiative, the context of the problems being solved.
2. Why do you consider this initiative to be a best practice? Describe your impact (qualitative and quantitative).
3. What recognition did you receive (internal and/or external)?
4. What challenges did you face and how did you overcome them?
5. What key factors enabled your initiative to build momentum (internal and/or external)?
6. How did your initiative utilize technology to enable efforts (if at all)? Please provide examples.
C. Categorize your Best Practice
1. Tags: (suggestions could appear such as 'type' for example - ICT training, facilitation techniques, local development project, curriculum development, citizen engagement strategy, policy process)
2. Scope: Local
Regional
Global
Name the location:
3. Organization/Company/Agency
a. Sector: Nonprofit
Foundation
Government
Business
School Club
Youth Group
b. Name of Organization
4. Related Issues
5. Do you consider this as a best practice on Youth Engagement? (yes / no) Yes No
D. Role of Youth
1. What role do youth serve within your initiative?
2. What did you learn about how to effectively engage youth?
3. How do you define youth? (i.e. a specific age range or life stage more broadly)
E. Additional Resources
a. Documents(attach)





b. Photos/Video(attach)





c. External URL
d. Please affiliate your best practice with the appropriate listing(s) on TakingITGlobal