Global Solutions

Co-created with public, private, and youth partners, GenU's Global Solutions skill and connect young people to livelihoods globally.

Photo taken during imaGen Ventures' global incubation week 2023 in Amman, Jordan, featuring a young girl and others observing what appears to be a 3D printer during a field visit.
UNICEF

Young people in different regions face distinct barriers to opportunity, shaped by local labour markets, education systems, and economic realities. 

UNICEF’s Generation Unlimited (GenU) develops global solutions designed to respond to those barriers, expanding access to job-relevant skills, decent work, entrepreneurship and livelihood pathways in ways that reflect local needs and national priorities.

Co-created, financed, and delivered with public, private, and youth partners (PPYP), these solutions bring together the actors needed to make opportunity more accessible and sustainable:

  • Governments help connect programmes to public systems and policy priorities. 
  • Businesses contribute market insight, technology, expertise, investment, and employment pathways. 
  • Young people bring the lived experience and leadership needed to make solutions relevant to the barriers they face.

GenU’s PPYP approach helps mobilise investment, strengthen national systems, and move solutions from pilots to scale. Young people play an active role throughout, shaping programmes that support more relevant and lasting pathways from learning to earning.

Global solutions

BeGreen Africa

Supporting young people across Africa to build green businesses, create jobs, and contribute to greener, more sustainable local economies.

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Passport to Earning (P2E)

A flagship learning-to-earning programme that equips young people with free, job-ready skills and certifications to access earning opportunities at scale

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imaGen Ventures

Supporting young entrepreneurs to create and scale ventures that help to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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Green Rising

Mobilising millions of young people to take climate action, build green skills, and access green livelihoods.

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Engaging Kenyan Youth in Agriculture (EKYAN)

Equipping young people with the skills and resources needed to transform agri-food systems, access livelihoods and build climate-smart agriculture models.

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Global Volunteer Initiative (GVI)

A global movement that inspires and equips young people to become volunteers

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YOMA

A global digital ecosystem connecting youth to skills, impact, and opportunity.

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AI Ventures Accelerator (AIVA)

Mobilising young people, especially women, to build inclusive, AI-driven enterprises.

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Creative Academy

Boosting young people's access to opportunities for careers in the creative industries.

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Shabab Balad

Delivering equitable access to education, employability and entrepreneurship for Egypt's young people.

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One Million Opportunities (1MiO) [new version]

Skilling and connecting vulnerable adolescents and young people to employment, entrepreneurship, social impact and skills development opportunities.

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Youth Hub

A one-stop national platform to close the digital divide experienced by many young job seekers in India.

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