Accenture
A partner since 2021
Accenture and UNICEF are working together to drive positive outcomes for underserved youth.
Accenture’s partnership with UNICEF, in support of Generation Unlimited (GenU), focuses on providing skilling opportunities for youth, aiming for sustainable social impact. Accenture plays an active role, offering its core capabilities around digital learning, human-centred design and monitoring and evaluation to the projects it funds.
Skills can open doors to a better future – and combined with the power of technology, can help create a more economically inclusive world for all. Through Accenture’s global Skills to Succeed initiative, the company has provided employment and entrepreneurship opportunities alongside its partners, equipping more than 5.8 million people worldwide with the skills to make substantive improvements to their lives.
The Accenture and UNICEF partnership helps young people reach their full potential in a rapidly changing world through initiatives such as:
Passport to Earning
Accenture has joined forces with UNICEF’s GenU and Microsoft, among other leading private and public sector organizations, as a founding partner of Passport to Earning (P2E). The initiative will provide young people (aged 15–24) with free, world-class and job-relevant skills training, digital certificates and certifications they need to secure in-demand roles and opportunities for improved livelihoods. In its initial three-year phase, P2E intends to equip 10 million young people with skills essential for employment.
P2E aims to address the global education and skills crisis, which has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and continues to disproportionately impact youth, especially young girls, around the world.
Accenture contributes US$3 million over the course of three years in funding to support digitally enhanced skills development and access to wage or self-employment in Brazil, India and beyond.
Humanitarian response
UNICEF’s global scale, on-the-ground expertise, local presence and capacity to engage ensure that Accenture’s corporate and employee giving reaches the people most in need – and fast. Examples of the work funded by Accenture include:
- COVID-19: As communities around the world fought to address new and urgent needs resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, Accenture contributed approximately US$4.65 million to UNICEF’s COVID-19 relief efforts. This supported efforts to build capacity within the health infrastructure – including addressing health systems, nutrition, food insecurity, education and skills – to prevent future waves of infection among children, families and their communities. Accenture’s people also contributed directly to these efforts to make a difference, with the company matching 100 per cent of personal donations made through its giving channels.
- Ukraine crisis: Accenture is supporting UNICEF’s humanitarian response, helping individuals and families who have had to leave their homes and establish new lives gain meaningful employment and start businesses. Accenture has donated approximately US$800,000 to efforts including mobilizing health teams and providing food, basic supplies and essential services such as health care, education, protection, water and sanitation to children and families.
By working with organizations such as UNICEF to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, Accenture measures its impact in part by the benefit brought to people, partners and communities around the world.
UNICEF does not endorse any company, brand, product or service.
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Last updated 26 October 2022
