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Manual
Handbook for Inclusive Youth Projects
This Handbook presents a pioneering non-formal education methodology specifically designed for the education and professionalisation of "inclusion coordinators" in youth organisations, ensuring the full participation of youth with fewer opportunities.
Aims of the tool
-To provide a comprehensive, step-by-step non-formal education methodology specifically designed for the education and professionalisation of dedicated "inclusion coordinators" within youth organisations.
-To serve as a practical, scalable manual for organisations wanting to conduct their own internal capacity-building and training programs for staff and volunteers.
-To establish a standardised framework that equips youth workers to shift from ad-hoc inclusion efforts to systemic, strategic planning, ensuring youth projects are fundamentally accessible to marginalised young people.
-To ensure that organisations delivering non-formal education do not have to start from zero when building their own inclusive methodologies.
Description of the tool
The "Handbook for Inclusive Youth Projects" is a comprehensive open educational resource developed under the 'Not Neat to be NEET' Erasmus+ project. Crucially, this handbook represents a major innovation: it is the very first guide created specifically for the education and professionalisation of dedicated "inclusion coordinators" within youth organisations.
Rather than treating inclusion as an afterthought, this Handbook provides a structured framework for organisations working with young people to build internal capacities. The core of the handbook (Part 2) details a comprehensive, step-by-step non-formal education methodology. It guides youth workers through a 5-phase "learning-by-doing" journey—from needs analysis and preparatory workshops, through capacity-building trainings and local job-shadowing, all the way to transnational networking.
To bridge the gap between this strategic capacity-building and daily grassroots implementation, the methodology is supported by a digital toolkit (Part 3) containing 27 adaptable working units, workshops, and methods. By utilising this Handbook, organisations can confidently train their staff, draft actionable Inclusion Action Plans (IAPs), and ensure no young person is left behind.
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Tool overview
http://toolbox.salto-youth.net/5822
This tool is for
The Handbook is explicitly designed to equip organisations working with young people and youth workers, rather than the youth participants themselves. It serves as a comprehensive manual for organisations that want to conduct their own internal or external education and training to develop dedicated inclusion coordinators. Therefore, the primary target group includes youth workers, trainers, NGO and local Youth offices managers and project coordinators looking to apply this methodology to build their structural capacities.
and addresses
Social Inclusion, Disability, Organisational Management, Youth Participation
It is recommended for use in:
Training and Networking
Capacity Building
Behind the tool
The tool was created by
Association "People's Parliament" and the "Not Neat to be NEET" consortium partners
in the context of
Developed within the EU-funded Erasmus+ project "Not Neat to be NEET" by a consortium of Western Balkan youth organisations.
The tool has been experimented in
Tested during 8 five-day national training courses educating the Western Balkans' first generation of inclusion coordinators, local job-shadowing placements, and a 7-day international training and networking event in Serbia (June 2026) with close to 60 pa
The tool was published to the Toolbox by
Goran Mitrović (on 25 June 2026)
and last modified
25 June 2026
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