Generation Unlimited

Grace Nyawira and Kennedy Gachoka, agripreneurs, Kenya, engaging students on farming methods and nutrition using demo plots set up in schools within local communities.
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Why we exist

We aim to turn a generation at risk into a generation of opportunity. Today, 1.2 billion young people stand at a crossroads, facing widening skills gaps, limited career pathways, and unequal access to opportunities in fast-evolving green, digital, and AI-driven economies. With timely, collective action, we can ensure every young person fulfils their potential – leaving no one behind.

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What we do

We deliver market-relevant skilling, employment, and entrepreneurship programmes at scale. Co-designed with public-private-youth partners, our programmes focus on sectors where opportunity is growing fastest, ensuring young people can become work-life ready and build sustainable livelihoods.

Young participants wearing blue shirts work together outdoors to assemble and test solar power equipment. They are gathered around wiring and tools beside large solar panels, concentrating closely on the task. A UNICEF Mongolia logo appears in the corner.

How we do it

Championed by Heads of State and industry leaders, we mobilize cross-sector expertise, innovation and resources to deliver and institutionalize opportunities for youth. Through shared-value partnerships, we unite governments, businesses, UN agencies, multilateral banks, foundations, civil society, and young people with the common goal to unlock dignified livelihoods.

Where We Work

Generation Unlimited has impacted youth in more than 70 countries since inception, catalyzing global and national action on youth skills and livelihoods
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In the Spotlight

Highlights: Global Leadership Council September 2025

Uniting world leaders, CEOs, and youth changemakers to unlock pathways to employment and entrepreneurship

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Stories of Impact

#WorkLifeReady Skilling and Livelihoods for Young People

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1 Billion Futures: Unlocking Youth Livelihoods

Generation Unlimited Global Leadership Council convened leaders to transform fragmented efforts for youth skilling and livelihoods into national solutions.

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Green Rising: Reflecting on Results, Reimagining the Future

A timeline of the youth-led climate movement from COP28 to COP30, and the path ahead

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