Enabling India's youth by connecting them to aspirational socio-economic opportunities, and engaging them as active changemakers
In 2018, UNICEF initiated the global Generation Unlimited partnership to meet the urgent needs of expanding education, skill development and employment opportunities for young people across the world. Within the overall Sustainable Development Goals framework, and the new UN Youth Policy 2030, Generation Unlimited provides an agenda that is universal in nature – all countries can and must do more to support the education, skills, and empowerment of youth.
The India chapter of Generation Unlimited – YuWaah – was born in 2019. At the core of YuWaah is the willingness and capacity to meaningfully engage and listen to young people’s needs, ideas and aspirations. By focusing on engagement, learning, skill development and employment of young people, YuWaah aims to support a generation of empowered, young change makers in India. Envisaged as a strategic, long-term initiative, YuWaah will serve as the much-needed bridge between solution providers, private sector, Government of India, academia and civil society organizations to fund and scale-up innovative and effective solutions.
Young People’s Action Team
In order to enable meaningful participation of young people with its work, YuWaah has set up a special Young People’s Action Team (YPAT) which will work closely with the core team to ensure YuWaah’s interventions work with and for young people at all levels. The YPAT will have representation within all governance levels within YuWaah, including the Advisory Board.
Mission 2030
Build pathways for 100 million young people to aspirational economic opportunities
Facilitate job-matching – AI, hyper-local market place, youth employment exchange
Create platforms to guide youth to qualified & paid market opportunities (mentorship, internships, apprenticeships)
Enable creation of a thriving mass entrepreneurship ecosystem
Facilitate 200 million young people to gain relevant skills for productive lives and future of work
Provide career guidance (online & offline)
Facilitate flexible learning programmes
Promote access to vocational, foundational & 21st Century skills for youth inside & outside formal education systems
Partner with 300 million young people as changemakers and create spaces for developing their leadership
Promote Social Innovation
Promote Youth engagement - Expanding reach of the U-report to 8 million young people & using it as a two-way process
Create Platforms for youth organizations – methodologies, models & tools to be amplified
Strategies
Identify high-impact, scalable initiatives and enable roll-out at scale by brokering investments and shared value partnerships.
Identify whitespaces and foster breakthrough innovation by co-creating solutions with youth to ensure they are drivers and agents of social change.
Generation Unlimited brings together the private sector, governments, multilateral organizations, civil society, and young people by:
Attracting investment at global and national levels to make effective programmes grow and achieve results for millions of young people.
Scaling innovations, brokering investments and shared value partnership in areas such as digital connectivity, remote learning and work, entrepreneurship, job-matching platform, mental health and the green economy, among others.
Co-creating solutions with young people to ensure they are drivers and agents of social change.