Very few donor agencies at present would be in a position to answer positively to all or many of the questions posed in Box 5. This is intended as a checklist from which to continually review progress from, and should be built into organisational structures (see Figure 6 below). Other elements of mainstreaming youth within country planning include changing results frameworks, management frameworks and communications strategies. Most donor agencies will have their own format for country planning; here we have used a DFID example, and adapted it to include youth mainstreaming.

Figure 6: DFID Country Planning Framework65

There are two case studies where organisations describe national strategy development processes relevant to country planning; see case study 6 for practice sharing on UNDP’s experience of developing a national youth policy in Bahrain and case study 9 for DFID’s experiences relating to the development of Uganda’s national development plan.

Conducting a youth audit and mainstreaming youth in the country plan will provide a sound foundation from which to continue building and enhancing work with youth. The quality standards framework can be used on an ongoing basis to inform work with youth in different operational areas.

• 65. Adapted from: Preparing a Country Plan, DFID How To Note, November 2008