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Business and the Youth Skills Gap

We can all play a role in making it happen and supporting real impact in the lives of real people

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The future of young people affects all of us and it is important to act:

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United People Global

United People Global is facilitating interactions in communities across the world, working with engaged and action-oriented Hosts.

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Whether your city

Whether your city or community is already taking action, or not, an interaction focused on the youth skills gap is an opportunity keep things moving in the right direction.

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Game changer

The recommendations in the global report can lead to the right kinds of collaborations and above all, a more secure economic future for real people everywhere.

Interactions

Learn more about upcoming interactions. To learn about outcomes please see further below.

City Name: Maputo
Date: 2018-11-30
Status: Upcoming

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City Name: Lagos
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Date: 2019-06-01
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Date: 2019-06-01
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City Name: Stavropol
Date: 0000-00-00
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City Name: Ufa
Date: 0000-00-00
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City Name: Vladivostock
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City Name: Sochi
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City Name: Chisinau
Date: 0000-00-00
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City Name: Abkhazia
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More Information

More about Global Business Coalition on Education, Commission on Youth Skills

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See the Report Press Release
Two Billion Youth At Risk

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Executive Summary of the Report

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Full Report

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Quotes from Stakeholders

Around the world, many employers who already are struggling to fill job vacancies cast a wary eye toward the future. The existing mismatch between youth skills and employer needs threatens to become even wider as Industry 4.0 transforms business and jobs faster than workers can adapt.

Sarah Brown

Executive Chair, Global Business Coalition for Education President, Theirworld.

Entrepreneurship provides opportunities for youth to bypass traditional barriers to employment. And by supporting entrepreneurship we enable youth to be a powerful part of the solution.

Graça Machel.

Yemi Babington-Ashaye President, United People Global Commissioner, Youth Skills and Innovation Commission

While that may sound dire, leaders and visionaries recognize it as an obligation—even an opportunity—to reconsider how jobs and skills should be aligned, and how potential employees can demonstrate these skills.

Punit Renjen

Deloitte Global CEO

We carry an exciting energy, enthusiasm, and creativity as youth in what we do, thus it is a waste of human capital when these gifts are not tapped in improving businesses, letting potentials lie idle, and putting the current and future world of work in jeopardy.

Nina Mbah

GBC-Education Youth Skills and Innovation Initiative: Youth Network

People do not want to invest in nor work for a company that is not socially responsible. Investing in their current and future workforce by developing skilling, re-skilling, and life-long learning programs is therefore critical and essential.

Shea Gopaul

Founder & executive director, Global Apprenticeship Network

People do not want to invest in nor work for a company that is not socially responsible. Investing in their current and future workforce by developing skilling, re-skilling, and life-long learning programs is therefore critical and essential.

Daniella Foster

Senior director, Global Corporate Responsibility, Hilton

To leave the world a bit better … to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Climate change and sustainability are challenges that provoke a lot of anger and frustration – on both sides. And rightly so. United People Global is helping people who care about these challenges to respond with positive action.”

Yemi Babington-Ashaye

President, United People Global.


“We all know climate change is a global problem – and for that it requires a global solution. This is an opportunity for people from across the globe, regardless of their nationality or circumstances, to be part of the most important discussion of this century; the unprecedented action needed to reach the Paris Agreement targets.”

– Sir David Attenborough

Naturalist and Broadcaster.

“We are driven by a sense of responsibility for present generations and future generations that will succeed us”

– Kurtyka Michal

COP24 President

“Even though many human activities that accompany the process of development may have destructive consequences, it is also within human power to enhance and improve the environment in which we live.”

– Amartya Sen, Nobel Laurette

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