Youth

Empowering Youth for a Brighter Future

Two young women from Senegal transporting water

Changing Attitudes and Empowering Young Girls in Senegal

The ISMEA pilot project, supported by the World Bank and the Global Financing Facility, empowers young girls in impoverished regions of Senegal. It transforms futures through education and support on health, hygiene and entrepreneurship.
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Inspiration and Innovation: Engaging Youth in Delivering on the SDGs

Listen to our Fireside Chat with Novozymes to explore how companies can bring the voice of youth into their SDG thinking and innovation and get ideas
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Investment in the Health Women and Children

Delivering Healthier Futures for Women, Children and Adolescents: What is the role of business?

Join us for this live written discussion with a panel of experts to explore the role of business in improving maternal, child and adolescent
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Investment in the Health Women and Children

Catalysing Investment in the Health of Women, Children, and Adolescents

The health of women, children and adolescents should be a concern for all of us, including multinational business. This article explains how the Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents is helping to catalyse investment in this critical area, including through partnerships with the private sector.
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Pupils in class at a KwaraLEARN school in Nigeria

The Unprecedented Potential of Africa’s Future Generations

The youth population in Sub-Saharan Africa is set to surpass any other region, making education a crucial investment. Learning poverty affects 90% of children in the region, necessitating urgent solutions. Kwara State’s Governor showcases the transformative power of the KwaraLEARN program, emphasizing its data-driven pedagogy and innovative learning technologies. Investing in education will unlock Africa’s economic potential and empower its young generation to shape the world’s future.
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Time to Act: 3 Ways the Business Community Can Take Action to Help Improve Youth Mental Health

In response to the growing mental health crisis among youth, the UNICEF-led Global Coalition for Youth Mental Health issues an urgent call to businesses worldwide. Advocating for increased investment, public awareness, and supportive workplace cultures, this coalition strives to foster environments that prioritize and protect youth mental health, aiming to benefit 30 million individuals by 2030.
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Photo of Halima Awol Green Jobs in African Cities

Understanding Local Markets Can Create Green Jobs and Improved Livelihoods in African Cities

The transition to a green economy offers the prospect of an improved environment and better livelihoods. But unlocking that opportunity requires understanding local markets and economic incentives.
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How Can Businesses Best Support Youth Employability in Light of the Trends We Are Seeing Around the Future of Work?

Join us for this live written discussion with a panel of experts to explore how businesses can best support youth employability in light of the trends we are seeing around the future of work. The live panel is taking place on Thursday 8th June 2023, 10am to 11am EDT / 3pm to 4 pm GMT
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How can businesses best support youth employability in light of the trends we are seeing around the future of work?

This live written discussion with a panel of experts to explored how businesses can best support youth employability in light of the trends we
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Time to Act on Mental Health: UNICEF’s Global Coalition for Youth Mental Well-being

The Global Coalition for Youth Mental Well-being, hosted by UNICEF, was born out of the belief that the mental well-being of youth cannot be addressed by one entity alone but needs collective action. It is time for joint action on mental health
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To Build Thriving Cocoa Communities, Educate the Children

In cocoa-growing communities, advancing education pays dividends far beyond the classroom. Because the forces affecting the industry are so deeply intertwined, when children go to school and adults get training, the surrounding communities benefit in myriad ways. That’s why Cargill has been investing in schooling for children in cocoa growing communities – and the adults around them.
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Addressing the Future of Work for Young Africans in a Post-Covid World

This article aims to highlight the changing nature of work for young Africans that has been severely impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. This explores the state of youth unemployment on the continent and the potential for digitalisation to impact the future of work, calling on the business community and leaders to invest in skills development of youth, promoting entrepreneurial mindsets.
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Rainforest Alliance Youth

If We Want to Meet the SDGs, We Need to Ditch Empty Rhetoric and Invest in Young People

María Fernanda Ghiso, Youth Inclusion expert at the Rainforest Alliance, marked International Youth Day (last month) by reminding organisations that they need to enable today’s youth to deliver tangible and sustainable change.
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How can young people from low-income countries get the best from financial services?

With goals that range from “[being] financially stable”, to “being an established business tycoon”, young people from low-income communities have big ambitions. However, due to an interwoven mix of financial barriers, they currently lack the information, infrastructure, and knowledge to pursue such ambitions. How can organisations put young people from low-income communities at the heart of financial inclusion decision-making, in order to help them achieve their ambitions?
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Futuremakers Research 2022

On behalf of Futuremakers by Standard Chartered, Business Fights Poverty in partnership with Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, conducted a survey of over 1,200 young people about financial inclusion. The survey responses and stakeholder interviews point to three main issues: i. Young people need to be put at the heart of designing products and services that are fit for them; ii. Young people require financial information and infrastructures to make informed financial decisions; iii. A relationship of trust needs to be built as part of the provision of financial services and products.
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Futuremakers Forum 2022

Virtual Summit, 6-7 July 2022. Through thought-leading research, employee volunteering and a two-day global Futuremakers Forum, we deepened our understanding of how to unleash
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Join the Futuremakers Forum 2022

The Futuremakers Forum will look at the barriers to young people’s financial inclusion as well as what lies beyond them, identifying ways to redesign financial services to better meet young people’s needs.
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Supporting a new generation of green and social entrepreneurs

YBI believes supporting social and green entrepreneurship can unlock the potential of young people as agents and leaders of change, creating vital economic and employment opportunities in the process. YBI is supporting our network in this increasingly important area with to help our members meet these specific needs.
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Ayan Said, Voicing Voices

Ayan provides practical tools and tips to help us all, and particularly business decision makers to create the spaces for better communication.
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Rethinking Fundraising

In January, UNICEF Italy launched BZR, a new fundraising platform developed as part of Next Generation, a laboratory for new disruptive solutions of partnerships and fundraising. BZR is a virtual marketplace where fashion companies and influencers sell their unused products, and all profits go directly to fund UNICEF programmes in Afghanistan. 
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Discover how empowering youth and supporting initiatives that uplift young voices, promotes human rights and governance, leading to a just and equitable future.

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