YuWaah
Unlocking the potential of India's 300+ million young people
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UNICEF YuWaah (Generation Unlimited India) is a Public-Private-Youth Partnership platform working to unlock the potential of India's 300+ million young people, with a focus on young women and marginalized groups. YuWaah builds pathways from learning to livelihoods and champions active citizenship, volunteering, and youth-led change.
Every month, around 1 million young Indians turn 18 seeking economic opportunity. Yet many remain excluded from education, training, and employment. YuWaah addresses this by convening government, private sector, civil society, and young people themselves to co-create solutions at scale.
While the public and private sectors in India have acknowledged the barriers young people face, initiatives to address these challenges have often been isolated and not youth-centric or youth-led. That’s where YuWaah steps in!
Our goal is to empower every young person, especially those on the margins, by providing them with life-changing opportunities. Together, we will also embed youth centrality in the ecosystem and pave the way for a brighter future – one that is youth-centric, inclusive and sustainable.
Our Story
Generation Unlimited launched globally in 2018 at the UN General Assembly, with a mission to skill billions of young people worldwide and connect them to opportunities for employment, entrepreneurship, and social impact. In 2019, young people themselves named and launched its Indian chapter - ‘YuWaah’, a name signifying hope, enthusiasm, and aspiration in action.
Since then, YuWaah has reached over 130 million young people through skilling, employment, entrepreneurship, career guidance, civic action, and volunteering — backed by our cross-sectoral partners.
Strategic Priorities
- Build pathways for 100 million young people to access economic opportunities
- Enable 200 million young people to gain future-of-work skills
- Partner with 300 million young people as changemakers and leaders
Youth at the Core
YuWaah leads by listening to and amplifying the needs and aspirations of young people. It identifies and scales up diverse solutions that can assist all young individuals nationwide in finding suitable opportunities to reshape the world as changemakers.
YuWaah's Young People's Action Team (YPAT) — a cohort of 30+ young Indians from diverse backgrounds — helps guide our governance and strategy through board meetings, task forces, and working groups.
#ImpactWithYouth
YuWaah also brings together global leaders and young changemakers together for a unique video podcast series to discuss pertinent issues and solidify inter-generational learning that shapes our collective futures.
Through YuWaah we encourage young people to recognize their unlimited potential. We encourage them to let their aspirations fly, think big and be bold. Within the Government of India-UNICEF Country Programme 2023-2027, this partnership seeks to co-create solutions that empower India’s young people with the skills, tools and knowledge they need to succeed in the workforce and as entrepreneurs. It also creates opportunities for them to work together with policy stakeholders to make India more sustainable and innovative.
YuWaah is a collaboration between public and private organising and leaders, along with young people as equal partners. And as we co-create platforms like Passport to Earning, Meri LiFE and the Youth Hub, we are enabling skilling and other socio-economic opportunities that can reach young people at scale.
