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Global Opportunity Youth Initiative


Livelihood Prospects

of Youth and their

Families

Local

Communities

Opportunity

Systems

Youth Voice → Youth Action: 3 Dimensions of Impact


• Bring the real lived experience of youth

• Unlock innovation and vision and provide a channel for this perspective

• Raise profile of youth capacity and talent as future leaders

Must include

youth voice in all

solutions

Create

permanent

channels for

youth input

“Nothing about us without us”

Access to real

time information

to guide decision

making

Regular access to

peer led forums to test

ideas and process

information


Global Opportunity

Youth Network


• Population shifts, climate

change, conflict and

urbanization

• Changing nature of work

in the form of automation

and digitization

Increasing pressure

• Field is fragmented, no single

solution/ “silver bullet”

• Existing efforts reach a tiny fraction

of youth in need

• Many jobs are low value and don’t

provide career development

• Limited awareness, coordination and

financial support at level required

…350M youth expected to be out of school,

unemployed or working in informal jobs

Limited scalable solutions

From each individual youth to…

The Global Opportunity Youth Initiative

• Global Opportunity Youth Initiative aims to significantly expand

economic opportunities for youth

• Place-based coalitions of government, business, investors,

training/skilling agencies, education, nonprofit, and youth community

leaders

• Launch with 5 model cities in regions with high youth

un/underemployment

• Build on, integrate and accelerate existing platforms and initiatives


Sustainable and scalable economic opportunities

for millions of youth

Learning agenda of

what works given

different contexts, with

a clear evidence tested

by location, policies,

tech, capacity, macro

and youth context

Youth voice and

solutions engaged

and driving

recommendations

and

implementation

Diverse resource

mobilization

including innovative

financing, pay for

results, SME

financing, impact

investing, bilaterals,

donor collaboratives

and regranting

Global advocacy

awareness

building,

convening and call

to action

Place based

catalytic shifts,

deep dive and global

knowledge sharing of

archetypes and

blueprints

Identifying

powerful digital

platforms for

scale and

assessment of

outcomes

1 2 3

4 5 6


ONE USA STORY HERE



ONE KENYA STORY HERE

Systems change from a youth’s perspective


• 10 second intros, name and organization

• Take the piece of paper at your table, flip it

over

• Consider the information at your table for you

as a youth:

- Pathway for income generation

(apprenticeship, entrepreneurship, etc)

- Type of background (high school graduate,

drop-out, farm working coming to the city)

- Type of emerging market, informal

employment, urban or per-urban setting

30 MINUTES

PUT YOURSELF IN A

YOUTH’S SHOES

DON’T OVERTHINK

COMPLEXITY

Not changing the youth, but the system….


Question #1: What are the specific barriers you face to sustained,

decent employment/income generation?

Question #2: How do specific systems need to change to make you

more successful? E.g. government, employers, education & training,

cultural systems

Question #3: Zoom out. How does the overall system need to change,

accelerate and better coordinate such that 1 million of your fellow

youth will be more successful? What will enable change at scale?

Question #4: Step out of character – how can YOUR organization

contribute to #3?

Report out!


Just questions #3 & #4

Write down your answer to #4 on the sheet going around


Help us change systems to support youth

• December 4-6, 2018

• Philadelphia

Global

Youth

Summit

Global

Learning

Visits

South Africa• October 22 – 28, 2018

• Stellenbosch &

Johannesburg

Colombia • November 26 – 29,

2018

• Bogota & Cali

India• January 24– 20,

2018

• Delhi, Haryana &

3rd location TBD

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