Youth

NEW YORK, 27 April 2020 – Speaking before a virtual meeting of the United Nations Security Council, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned the body that young people, and particularly those most vulnerable to insecurity and instability, were facing dire socio-economic impacts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.  The UN Secretary-…

Written by Ms. Lucy Meyer, Generation Unlimited Champion, Official Spokesperson for the Special Olympics – UNICEF USA Partnership, and Special Olympics athlete. Every year people with and without intellectual disabilities come together for the “Spread the Word” campaign – a movement to end the use of the R word and promote inclusion. We should…

Over 22% of young people across the globe are not in any kind of employment, education or training at all – something that will be made worse by COVID-19. Businesses have a big role to play to ensure that young people are not deprived of the opportunities of tomorrow and can put their talent to work to help the global economy bounce back. "The…

By James Okina and Ofem Ubi I spent the evening of 6 March with five brilliant boys on the streets of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I was documenting their life with my team on a project called No Existe , a partnership between my organization, Street Priests Inc., and Bleed Red Campaign, to bring awareness to the problem of street children across the…

Young people, who make up the majority of most communities in the developing world, are the key to turning the tide on COVID-19. They are innovating and organising en masse to stem the outbreak and support communities through the consequences. Will you join them? The Local Youth Corner Cameroom team in their laboratory. “The mass message in the…

The South Asia Youth Skills and Solutions Forum was co-hosted by the Generation Unlimited Global Team, the Global Business Coalition for Education, and the UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia. It brought together participants across eight South Asian countries - Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka…

Salam Al-Nukta, 26, from the Syrian Arab Republic is an entrepreneur, startup enthusiast, passionate traveler and a motivated ChangeMaker. DAMASCUS, Syria – While the whole world is in a lockdown due to disruptions brought by COVID-19, ChangeMakers , a youth-led initiative born from the heart of Damascus is leading the move to make technology more…

Elvira Kalmurzaeva, 28, from Kyrgyzstan, serves as the Executive Director of IDEA Central Asia. She has experience working with youth organizations and programmes and is knowledgeable about the political and socioeconomic context of human rights and youth issues in the Central Asian region. She is a former OSCE Youth Ambassador and the Speaker of…

NEW YORK, 20 April 2020 – UNICEF and Microsoft Corp. today announced the expansion of a global learning platform to help children and youth affected by COVID-19 continue their education at home. The Learning Passport started off as a partnership between UNICEF, Microsoft and the University of Cambridge and its departments Cambridge University…

Umuhoza Dative, 11, Rwanda, studies at home due to coronavirus-related school closures, listening to her Primary 6 lessons on the radio every day. Umuhoza Dative, 11, Rwanda, studies at home due to coronavirus-related school closures, listening to her Primary 6 lessons on the radio every day. NEW YORK, United States, 27 April 2020 – The Generation…

As a global partnership that attracts and pools investment for young people’s education, learning, skilling, entrepreneurship and employment, Generation Unlimited (GenU) can play an important role in supporting the global response to COVID-19 and address both its short- and long-term impacts.  Young people are already among those affected the most…, GenU Frontrunner Countries responding to COVID-19, UNI287671 UNI287671, India, YuWaah!  – Generation Unlimited in India – is working to reassess its short-term strategic direction and align with the immediate needs of India’s young people in the face of the pandemic. For example, it is developing an online career guidance and counseling network with the aim of reaching 16 million young people. It is also exploring a…, South Africa, UNICEF South Africa is collaborating with UNDP to explore a last-mile ecosystem model that would leverage a network of unemployed youth as community ambassadors to facilitate the sales and distribution of various types of goods in the community during COVID-19. Utilizing existing technologies, the intention is to create digital jobs for youth,…, Nigeria, All schools in Nigeria have closed indefinitely due to COVID-19 and more than 39 million students have been removed from the traditional educational context. To mitigate the negative impacts on education outcomes, UNICEF and GenU are working to increase the availability of e-learning platforms, while also utilizing traditional media – including…, GenU partners responding to COVID-19, UN0210160 UN0210160, Children's Investment Fund Foundation, The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) is scoping a multi-million dollar investment to start, support and accelerate digital learning for primary, secondary and tertiary education in India, with the goal of delivering digital learning opportunities for one million children in the state of Rajasthan hit hard by COVID-19. Further, CIFF …, Education Commission, Secondary education is critical to prepare youth for the workforce and life, but projections from 2019 indicate that of the 1.5 billion school-aged children in low- and middle-income countries well over half – 870 million – will not be on track to acquire the minimum level of secondary skills by 2030. COVID-19 is likely to exacerbate these trends…, International Labour Organization (ILO), GenU and the Global Initiative on Decent Jobs for Youth (DJY) will jointly host the Knowledge Facility, a one-stop-shop for resources for both partnerships and their members to learn, share, and engage on youth education, decent work, and engagement through curated tools, data and resources. Building on the existing  DJY Knowledge Facility , GenU …, SAP, SAP  partners with more than 1,200 nonprofits and social enterprises which collectively serve more than 4.5 million youth across 105 countries, in areas of quality education, decent work and youth entrepreneurship. To support these organizations, as well as the World Health Organization and CDC Foundation, the company has established a €3 million…, The World Bank, The World Bank has announced the approval of  operational support  in developing countries of up to $160 billion globally in response to the COVID-19 crisis. The response is tailored to addressing the health, economic and social shocks that countries face, and aims to strengthen their pandemic response and health care systems, protect the poor and…