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If the largest generation of young people in history is prepared for the transition to work, the potential for global progress is unlimited. We enable young people to become productive and engaged members of society.

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Generation Unlimited Gathers World Leaders to Rewrite Future of Connectivity & Modern Education
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GenU Gathers World Leaders to Rewrite Future of Connectivity

3.7 billion people are without internet access, with children and young people most at risk of being left behind.

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Nhial Deng
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Meet The Unlimited: Nhial Deng

Nhial Deng is a 21-year-old Ethiopian refugee living in Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya, passionate about the Sustainable Development Goals.

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Halimo Abdirahman Ismail, 12 years old, and her friend attend class in Mogadishu, Somalia on 23 January 2021.
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Educating the COVID-19 Generation

Education will largely determine whether the 2020s will reduce or increase the current inequality of opportunity and wealth of today's world.

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Action Guide 4: Creating decent jobs for youth
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Creating a World where Young People Thrive

"We must put our resources on local solutions that we can scale globally. We must focus on young people who are creating positive change."

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A young Bangladeshi girl is seen studying from home during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Bangladesh: Setting up youth for success

Ambitious new Adolescent Skills Framework to address mismatch between education, training, and jobs in Bangladesh.

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Three Kenyan youngsters of the Green Project Initiative, a Generation Unlimited Youth Challenge global winners, pose for a picture.
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Kenya: Joining forces to meet youth ambitions

GenU Kenya advances its youth agenda by ensuring young people themselves play a key role as changemakers in institutionalizing meaningful youth engagement.

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23-year-old Dasara Meta started her internship at a local company through Generation Unlimited.
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Kosovo*: On-the-job learning for young people

Aiming to develop the skills of young people during COVID-19, K-GenU has provided internships for 500 youth including Dasara, a student from Kosovo.

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One Million opportunities for Brazil's youth

The GenU digital platform 1MiO offers quality opportunities for education, training and decent work for vulnerable young people.

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Young people is the calling of our time and everyone has a role to play.

Generation Unlimited
The second Generation Unlimited Youth Challenge took place in 36 countries, encouraging young people to design entrepreneurial solutions that address the GenU focus areas of education, employment and empowerment. The Youth Challenge engages youth who do not typically have the skills or opportunity to become social entrepreneurs, including young refugees, those who face daily discrimination due to their ethnicity, their gender or their disability, those who are disadvantaged by poverty and younger adolescents.

A demographic boom is happening across much of the world, bringing the potential to transform economic and social outcomes, raise global productivity, and reduce inequality, but only if we create enough opportunity. 

Generation Unlimited is a global multi-sector partnership to meet the urgent need for expanded education, training and employment opportunities for young people, aged 10 to 24, on an unprecedented scale.

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Connecting the Next Generation

Connecting every child and every young person to the internet is a matter of equality. According to the International Telecommunication Union, nearly 3.7 billion people remain unable to access the internet and are disconnected from digital solutions that could dramatically improve their lives. That’s 346 million young people. This limits them from accessing the same information as their more-connected peers. Unless things change, a big part of this rapidly growing group of young people is in danger of being left behind - excluded from the opportunity to learn.  

COVID-19 has put a spotlight on the digital divide within, between countries and regions, making closing this gap more urgent than ever, and placing universal connectivity and digital learning higher on the agenda.  

In response, Generation Unlimited is working to connect every child and young person to the internet, and scale-up IT-enabled solutions to boost young people’s skills, improve teaching, and enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of education systems. GenU will also engage and use the enthusiasm, energy, and innovation of young people in this process and encourage their entrepreneurial mindset.

Our focus is on four strategic priorities:​

  1. Connect every school and learner to the internet​

  2. Scale up online/remote learning, skilling, and livelihood platforms ​

  3. Boost entrepreneurial skills and opportunities​

  4. Engage youth as changemakers​

 

Dubai Cares will support Giga to connect every school in the world to the internet
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Connecting all schools and learners to the internet

Generation Unlimited will support every young person to have access to learning by connecting every school, every young person to the internet.

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Scaling up online learning, skilling & livelihood platforms

GenU will support every youth to have access to learning, skilling, & livelihood opportunities by scaling-up access to world-class digital solutions.

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Boosting entrepreneurial skills and opportunities

GenU will support every young person to have access to a decent livelihood—anywhere, anytime—by building and scaling sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystems.

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Engaging young people as active change-makers

GenU will support young people as change-makers and co-creators of solutions that improve their lives and their communities

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Creating a world where the future can thrive

Generation Unlimited creates public-private partnerships – globally and in countries – to co-create and support investment opportunities, programmes and innovations at a large scale, and to help young people become productive in life.

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Our Work

How Generation Unlimited is helping young people reach their full potential.

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Unilever Chief Executive Officer Alan Jope speaks during the Third Global Board Meeting of Generation Unlimited on 23 September 2019 at UNICEF House in New York.
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Our Partners

How Generation Unlimited is creating a global public-private coalition with and for young people.

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Generation Unlimited Youth Challenge bootcamp at KMUTT Knowledge Exchange for Innovation Center (KX) in Bangkok Thailand.
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Our Movement

"Nothing about us without us." Young people are at the heart of Generation Unlimited.

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Members of the Generation Unlimited Board at the inaugural meeting in 2018.
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Who We Are

Meet the groundbreaking group of people leading Generation Unlimited.

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"We are going to co-design and co-create with young people. So with Generation Unlimited, they are going to be in the driver's seat, steering us all along the way. The time is now. The need is urgent. And 1.8 billion young people are waiting."

Henrietta H. Fore, UNICEF Executive Director
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How we can help young people build a better future | Henrietta Fore, UNICEF Executive Director

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Generation Unlimited Brochure
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Generation Unlimited Brochure

Creating better education, skills, employment and entrepreneurial opportunities for young people worldwide

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On 20 February 2019 in Bangladesh, (left-right) Mohammed Forhad and Biplob Barca, both 18 years old, work on a motorbike in a garage in Court Bazar, in the Cox's Bazar district.
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A Case for Investment

Generation Unlimited’s case for further investment and action calls upon stakeholders from all sectors to help young people reach their full potential.

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UNI209079
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Our Journey in Review

Launched at the UN General Assembly in 2018, Generation Unlimited has generated broad interest from government and leaders from business and civil society.

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Action Guide 1: Secondary Education and Skills (Preview)
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Action Guide 1: Secondary Education and Skills

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“What works? A Guide to Action” launches on Youth Day
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Action Guide 2: School to work transition

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Action Guide 2: School to work transition
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Action Guide 3: Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment (Preview)

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Action Guide 4: Creating decent jobs for youth
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Action Guide 4: Creating decent jobs for youth

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Action Guide 5: Young people’s participation and civic engagement
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Action Guide 5: Young people’s participation & engagement

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