Girls' economic empowerment
Investing in girls’ economic empowerment can transform lives, communities and entire countries.
Skills and work
Two thirds of the world’s 1.2 billion young people lack essential skills, limiting their job prospects and pushing them into low-quality work. 1 in 5 are currently neither in employment, education or training, a rate that has steadily risen over the past 17 years.
Investing in sectors like green, digital, creative and care economies could create 139 million new jobs by 2030, with over 30 million of these jobs filled by young people.
We remove the barriers that prevent youth from participating in the labour market, and create an enabling and safe environment where young people can thrive. Our programmes equip young people with relevant skills so they can actively engage in decent work of their choosing, either waged or self-employed.
We equip young women with market-driven employability skills, financial literacy, transferable life skills, business and entrepreneurial skills. We provide peer-to-peer mentoring, career counselling, vocational training and job matching and placements to support their participation into decent work.
Our global impact in skills and work
Click on the graphics below to explore our impact in skills and work in 2024.
Our key areas of work in skills and youth employment
