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Generation Unlimited expands to nurture the potential of South Africa's young people

JOHANNESBURG, 13 August 2024 – Generation Unlimited South Africa (GenU SA), a public-private-youth partnership, is moving to the next phase by expanding partnerships and reach in skilling and connecting the country’s youth to opportunities for employment, entrepreneurship, and social impact. With 65% of young peop...

07 December 2022

Intergenerational Partnerships for Transformative Change

This learning brief is the product of a multi-stakeholder commitment to meaningful, feminist partnerships. In 2021, Generation Unlimited, UNGEI and WAGGGS hosted a webinar that brought together young and older women from their organizations as well as from the Nala Feminist Collective, Transform Education and Afre...

22 November 2022

The net zero generation

PwC worked with UNICEF and Generation Unlimited to help stakeholders better understand the role of skills, and in particular youth upskilling, in determining whether the world can transition to net zero in time. This report shows that: The net zero transition requires upskilling at scale or the world will face sev...

12 December 2021

Accenture, Dubai Cares, Microsoft and UNICEF launch digital education platform under Generation Unlimited to help address global learning crisis

DUBAI, 12 December 2021 – Accenture, Dubai Cares, Microsoft and UNICEF announced today the launch of a global, digital learning platform for young people. Operating under the Generation Unlimited partnership, the Passport to Earning platform aims to address the global education crisis – currently exacerbated by th...

10 December 2021

Reaching YES! Addressing the youth employment and skilling challenge

Today, the world has 1.3bn young people who are trying to start out, find their way and make a life—just as we did once. But the harsh reality is that millions of these young people will find it hard to make a life for themselves because they will struggle to find work. While the youth population has exploded by 3...

10 December 2021

Young people unable to access skills needed for today’s job market, new report says

LONDON/NEW YORK, 10 DEC 2021 — Young people across the world aren’t able to identify or acquire the skills needed for today’s job market, contributing to a global skills gap and exacerbating youth unemployment, according to a new report published today by Generation Unlimited, PwC and UNICEF. Reaching YES: Address...

India's Ministry of Labour and Employment Sign Agreement to Accelerate GenU India (Yuwaah)

Originally posted at pib.gov.in . Union Minister of State for Labour & Employment (Independent Charge) Shri Santosh Gangwar has said that India is committed to improve employment outcomes for all youth in India, including women and vulnerable section of the people, through an enduring, long-term commitment fo...

17 February 2021

PwC, UNICEF, YuWaah to upskill 300 million youth in India

The collaboration seeks to upskill and enhance job opportunities for underprivileged youth In December last year, PwC India announced the launch of a strategic collaboration with UNICEF and YuWaah (Generation Unlimited in India) to help bridge the digital gap and help upskill 300 million young people in India ov...

08 February 2021

Youth in Kenya transforming informal urban settlements

Growing up in Mathare isn’t easy. Home to roughly 500,000 people who live in small shanties made of old metal sheets and mud, this collection of sprawling informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya, is known for its gang violence. As many as one in three adults here is HIV positive, most are unemployed and everyone is...

08 February 2021

Three questions to Kevin Frey, GenU's new CEO

Generation Unlimited is delighted to welcome Kevin Frey as its new CEO. Frey is joining Generation Unlimited from Right To Play - an international development organization that works across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe and North America - where he served as the Global CEO from 2015 – 2020. He is an ed-tec...

28 January 2021

Teenagers develop 3D-printed bionic arm 30 times cheaper than existing prosthetics

Skopje, North Macedonia – Somewhere in downtown Skopje, amid the purring of engines and honking of sirens, 17-year-old Boris meanders the many streets and alleys of the city to make his way into an inconspicuous building not far from the plaza. He steps into a small makeshift workshop lined with shelves full of od...

27 January 2021

Generation Unlimited welcomes Kevin Frey as CEO

February 1, 2021 — Generation Unlimited is delighted to welcome Kevin Frey as its new CEO. Alan Jope, Chair of Generation Unlimited’s Board of Trustees and CEO of Unilever said “It is not an over-exaggeration to say that the outlook for our young people around the world has never been more challenging. The Board i...