Interventions

Apprenticeship

At the end of 2021, YuWaah brought together 16 stakeholders of the apprenticeship ecosystem to make this pathway to employment aspirational for young people and employers. The pilot, with a dedicated focus on Telangana, reached more than 75,000 young people and 200+ employers across sectors. The findings of the pilot, along with the recommendations of working group members representing government, TPAs, industries, young people, etc. have been drafted into a policy recommendation paper due to be launched with the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship soon. In collaboration with NSDC, YuWaah has also triggered a survey to capture employer and candidate perspective on apprenticeship.

YuWaah Step up-Bano Job Ready Pilot

The YuWaah Step Up-Bano Job Ready pilot seeks to provide handholding support to young job-seekers through dedicated job support centers to make job opportunities more accessible to them. Presently, the Pilot is being tested in Delhi-NCR with 1,000 job-seekers in the age group of 19-29 years.

YuWaah’s Learn to Earn Program

YuWaah's Learn to Earn Program was co-created with Flyvheel Digital Solutions and seeks to provide young people with information on skills required for profiles in the areas of sales and human resources. Further, through Flyvheel, young people can also earn through referrals and selling digital products.

Rozgar Bazar Portal

YuWaah and the Government of Delhi built the Rozgar Bazar Portal, which saw more 1.3 million registrations and about 15,000 jobs were provided in the first 8 months of the Partnership. Through its thought leadership, YuWaah is also supporting the Government on Rozgar Bazar 2.0 to enable stronger matching capabilities as well as value added services, such as upskilling.

Strengthening of National Career Services Portal

In partnership with the Ministry of Labour and Employment, YuWaah is aiding the strengthening of the National Career Service Portal (NCS). YuWaah conducted a feedback poll with about 25,000 young people on the Portal that helped identify the challenges faced by the respondents. These challenges are being addressed by the Ministry, with YuWaah supporting these efforts. In collaboration with the Ministry, YuWaah also organised a youth consultation with 70+ young people who shared their opinion on ‘what makes a good job portal’ directly with the Ministry.YuWaah is also conducting a monthly poll for new users, so as to help build capacity of the NCS team.

Career Awareness Sessions

Through multiple discussions with young people via surveys and interviews, YuWaah realised the challenge of navigating through new age job portals for young jobseekers. Understanding this challenge, YuWaah has initiated ‘Career Awareness Sessions’ for young people. These sessions are conducted directly with job portal partners to acquaint jobseekers with their portal, make them aware of a fresher’s journey in the job market, and show them the unique offerings of the portal. YuWaah has been conducting these sessions with academic institutes like IGNOU, School of Open Learning, and DSEU.

Young Warrior NXT

Young Warrior NXT was launched to identify impactful and scalable models delivering life skills and employability skills for young people. These models were no-tech, low-tech, and high-tech skilling models that were also subject to third-party assessment to measure the learning outcomes. A sandbox consisting of 11 organizations running 15 pilots were tested and based on the evidence, 3 models were selected for scale-up. Learnings and best practices emerging from the pilots were also documented into a succinct report, along with deep dives into the 15 pilots.

Education 4.0

World Economic Forum, UNICEF, and YuWaah (Generation Unlimited India) partnered to drive a multistakeholder response to identify challenges, opportunities, and priorities to develop solutions that can transform India’s education sector through the Education 4.0 India initiative and subsequent report, titled ‘Knowledge & Information Network for Digital Learning & Education (KINDLE)’. The initiative suggests a modular approach in which identified solutions can be tailored to suit the target beneficiaries, different sizes of geographies and diverse teaching/learning environments. As a socially relevant initiative, Education 4.0 India focuses on themes that the central and state governments in India are currently addressing The interventions recommended in this report call for a coordinated, multistakeholder effort designed and undertaken in a sustainable manner. The focus was on foundational literacy and numeracy, teachers training, school to work transition, and connecting the unconnected.

State of the Sector Report

The 21st century skills space is a complex and fragmented one since there are multiple terminologies, definitional and content frameworks, and players. Therefore, to systematically study, map and analyze the status of this sector, UNICEF commissioned the writing of the State of the Sector Report on 21st century skills in India, which has been prepared by GRAAM. The report has carried out a landscape analysis of noteworthy organizations and interventions in the 21st century skills space. 30 large-scale interventions having more than one lakh beneficiaries were identified through such analysis, and a deep dive into six interventions and their organizations has helped to understand their strategies related to scale, impact, and innovation.

Chat-Based Learning Solution (FunDoo)

FunDoo is an interactive chat-based learning solution encouraging activity-based self-learning. Young people can learn 21st century skills and explore career pathways through engaging with application-based “tasks” deployed on UNICEF’s U-Report chatbot (available on WhatsApp, Telegram, Instagram and Facebook Messenger). FunDoo has reached over 700,000 learners, and is now being scaled globally.

Career Guidance

YuWaah, UNICEF and  Aasman Foundation have collaborate to activate 17 state career portals that provide comprehensive information on education options, career opportunities, vocational training institutes and scholarships. Serving young people aged 13-18,  these portals can facilitate learning about the eligibility, educational requirements, scholarships, colleges, information about fellowships in different countries for a career domain. Additionally, information on different entry-points to that field and various growth options in that career domain.  Overall, career guidance is being enabled through multiple pathways towards enabling young people to make informed decisions about their career.

#YoungWarrior Movement

The Young Warrior Movement was launched to mobilise young people to take action against COVID-19. Supported by more than 1,350 Partners, including the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Civil Society, United Nations agencies, and the Private Sector, the Young Warrior Movement facilitated the co-creation of tech and non-tech platforms for the meaningful involvement of young people. This resulted in more than 6.6 million actions in three months.

Civic Participation

YuWaah collaborates with 40 youth-serving organizations whose efforts have enabled 16.5 million young people to participate in and/or lead social impact initiatives (volunteering and innovations) in 2022. YuWaah has promoted constitutional literacy, design thinking, problem-solving skills, and opportunities to advance young people’s active citizenship with these organizations. YuWaah is facilitating the use of gamified tools combining knowledge development and on-ground action to nurture capacities of young people to lead volunteerism. A 10-hour curriculum by the Capacity Building Commission helps young people kickstart their leadership journey. This is supplemented by 'Samvidhan Live! Be a Jagrik', which is an experiential 5-week long journey that helps young people act on their right to freedom, equality, against exploitation, cultural and educational rights, and constitutional remedies.

Youth Innovations

Resources such as the digital youth innovation platform, social innovation tools, and UPSHIFT are being deployed to advance the social consciousness of young people, develop 21st Century and design thinking skills and identify community challenges to generate hyperlocal innovative solutions.

#ImPactWithYouth

On International Youth Day (August 12), YuWaah launched the #ImPactWithYouth initiative to advocate for youth centrality within the public and private sectors through a meaningful partnership between leaders and young people to move development agendas forward. This pact has been made by 44,990 young people and key leaders, including the Shri Anurag Thakur, Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports;Shombi Sharp,United Nations Resident Coordinator; Mr Ashwin Yardi, CEO of Capgemini India; Dr R Balasubramaniam, Founder of Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement.

Passport to Earning (P2E)

Passport to Earning (P2E) is GenU’s flagship e-learning platform that aims to empower young people with the right 21st-century skills and connect them to relevant opportunities, such as internships, apprenticeships, entrepreneurship, employment, and social impact. It is initiated through the global partnership of UNICEF, Generation Unlimited, Accenture, and Microsoft and supported in India by Capgemini and Unilever. The initiative aims to work with Government, UN Agencies, NGOs, and the Private Sector to deliver long-term sustainable skilling for 5 million youth (15-29 years) in India by 2024, providing them with a world-class learning platform, certificate programs, and opportunities required for their success – in other words, become their “Passport to Earning”. 

YuWaah Aggregator Platform

With catalytic support from Price Waterhouse Coopers and Capgemini, YuWaah is building a comprehensive youth-centric digital ecosystem as an aggregator marketplace to converge a multitude of platforms, tools, and resources for skilling, economic and social impact opportunities. The Aggregator is expected to launch by mid-2023, with support from the Ministry of Youth Affairs for youth across India. As a first step towards the digital aggregator ecosystem, a prototype platform aligned with the Ministry’s National Yuva Volunteer Registry, has been developed where young people can explore their interests, find volunteering opportunities that match their interests, and sign up to act on issues that matter the most to them. YuWaah is currently catalysing Public-Private-Youth Partnerships and working with partners such as Bhumi, iVolunteer, India Welfare Trust, Platform Common, and Points For Good for further development and implementation of the platform.

Pride of Punjab

Supporting young people in Punjab through a unique multi-stakeholder alliance composed of the Government of Punjab, YuWaah, UNICEF, the Private Sector, and NGO Partners, young people across the State accessed volunteering opportunities, and a career guidance portal was launched for school students across the State. Through learning, skilling, and employment support, Pride of Punjab helps young people resolve some of society’s difficult challenges, and empower them to overcome personal obstacles.

Available now: Study conducted by BCG in partnership with YuWaah (Generation Unlimited India) at UNICEF about Rozgar Bazaar 2.0 - Career Guidance Pilot

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