Project profile — Generation Unlimited – Green Rising



Overview 

CA-3-P012994001
$19,000,000
UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund (41122)
2023-11-06 - 2029-03-31
Operational
Global Affairs Canada
YFMInternaAssistPartnershp&Programing Br

Country / region 

• Africa, regional (50.00%)
• America, regional (20.00%)
• Asia, regional (30.00%)

Sector 

• Education policy and administrative management:
Education policy and administrative management (11110) (10.00%)
Education facilities and training (11120) (10.00%)
• Basic Education: Basic life skills for youth (11231) (35.00%)
• Secondary education:
Secondary education (11320) (10.00%)
Vocational training (11330) (35.00%)

Policy marker 

• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (principal objective)
• Participatory development and good governance (not targeted)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (principal objective)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Children's issues (not targeted)
• Youth Issues (principal objective)
• Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR) (not targeted)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• Nutrition (not targeted)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)

Description 

The project aims to support more than 16,000,000 young people (particularly young women and youth with disabilities) with skills, enabling them to secure jobs, take on entrepreneurial opportunities, and undertake volunteer and advocacy efforts for climate action.?The project brings together youth-led organizations, civil society organizations, foundations, technology platforms, governments, and private sector partners, to support young people to develop and deliver on climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies through gender-responsive approaches. Project activities include: (1) strengthening the transferable skills of 10,000,000 youth on climate resilience and adaptation in their communities through volunteerism, skills development, workshops, and developing disaster risk reduction plans; (2) supporting 2,000,000 students to build climate resilience in their communities; (3) training 700,000 young people to develop green entrepreneurial mindsets and problem-solving skills in designing social enterprises. They aim to address the most pressing environmental challenges in their communities; (4) providing 400,000 young eco-entrepreneurs with access to opportunities for green skilling, advocacy, community engagement and pitching their green business ideas through a digital marketplace; and (5) strengthening the green skills of 3,000,000 young people through SMS technology.

Expected results 

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) improved capacity of young women and young men to adapt to ecological and environmental disasters; (2) increased resiliency of communities to climate change impacts; and (3) increased access to gender-responsive, environmentally-sensitive market-driven opportunities for livelihood and life skills among young people.

Results achieved 

N/A

Budget and spending 


Original budget $0
Planned disbursement $0
Transactions
Country percentages by sector
Type of finance Aid grant excluding debt reorganisation
Collaboration type Bilateral
Type of aid Project-type interventions