These guidelines provide a framework for working with and for young people throughout the humanitarian program cycle, complete with tips, examples, and case studies. In addition, humanitarian actors can use this guidance as reference to design programmes that respond to their context. These guidelines are for all humanitarian aid staff at the country level, including staff of civil society organizations (CSOs; including disabled persons organizations), local and national non-governmental organizations (NGOs), government agencies, international NGOs. It can and should be applied in all phases of humanitarian action (to inform disaster risk reduction, preparedness, response, transition and recovery), in the context of both rapid- onset and slow-onset emergencies, for natural hazards, conflicts, protracted crises, and during refugee and internal displacement situations, as well as in peacebuilding contexts.