CREATING A MORE PROSPEROUS AND SECURE FUTURE
Accenture and Save the Children share a vision for creating a more prosperous and secure future for young people. Among the 200 million people worldwide actively seeking work, a disproportionate share – 75 million – are youth and young adults under the age of 25. This demographic landscape represents not only a crucial development challenge, but also a tremendous source of human capital and economic opportunity. Our partnership builds programming that strengthens employability and employment outcomes for youth in safe and decent jobs and breaks the intergenerational cycle of poverty.
PREPARING YOUNG PEOPLE FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
Our partnership equips youth with the skills they need to get a job or build a business. Together, our 12-year partnership has equipped nearly 185,000 people through skilling initiatives.
Our newest global grant will focus on investing in a green economy, promoting gender equality and social justice for young people, supporting youth-led advocacy to drive social and environmental change, and leveraging technology for digital skilling.
Litha*(18), a vocational school student in East Java. Litha* is one of 35 vocational school students who took part in the 2023 Youth-led Innovation Lab (YIL) boot camp activities in East Java held by Save Children through the Skills to Succeed (S2S) Program. For three days, she and her friends were guided to learn about climate change issues and develop "green business" or environmentally friendly business ideas. Justicia Maulida / Save the Children
LEVERAGING TECHNOLOGY FOR DEVELOPMENT
Our partnership is advancing the use of technology to bring solutions to scale. Integrating technology into our program has been critical to successfully addressing the global youth skills gap and societal barriers.
We are building web-based and mobile solutions that connect youth to e-learning modules that build on classroom training; job matching platforms that link youth to employers and available jobs; social media and SMS for behaviour change and skills development; and beneficiary tracking systems to monitor employment and retention.
Student experiences VR device in Danang, Vietnam. Roi Images/STUDIO at Getty Images for Accenture
EVIDENCE AND THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
Accenture and Save the Children are leading a global movement to help fill the need for skilled and talented youth around the world. Through this work, we are continuously testing innovative approaches to training, including the effectiveness of a blended learning model that uses e-learning to complement traditional classroom learning.
Our partnership is focused on delivering quality and impactful programs, using results to continuously improve, so youth can secure safe and decent jobs.
“Since we joined the programme,” says 18-year-old Sandi, “all our dreams that we held in our heart have come true. Now the water is here. Right in the back of our house.” The programme he’s talking about is called i2Change, and the stories of change that come from it are incredible. Save the Children supports communities involved to uncover problems and develop in-novative solutions by igniting the imaginations of young people, nurturing their talents and building their self-belief. In 2023, in West Sumba, Indonesia, Sandy joined i2Change and formed a team with two other 18-year-olds: Soleman and Anjar. Through workshops, they considered the challenges people in their community faced and decided to tackle the lack of water in Sandi’s village. Children and adults, in-cluding pregnant women, were getting up at 3am to walk 3km down a steep and dangerous verge to reach a water source, carrying two five litre containers each. Not only was it incredibly risky, it was impacting children’s education and physical development; growing nutritious food was off the table, and children were missing school because of exhaustion or embarrassment at not being able to wash. The plan: to build a borehole and taps right there in the village. Over the next few months, Sandi and his crew received specialist training and support – not only in how to design and implement their plan, but also in public speaking, influencing and the kinds of things that grow your confidence and make people others listen to your ideas. The consulted with the community and worked on a blueprint for the water system with support from Save the Chil-dren. By the time Sandi and his friends chose the team-name Golden Scorpio, they had really started to be-lieve they could make a difference to their community: gold symbolises courage, and a scorpion is a small and unassuming creature that delivers a powerful sting – and can have a big impact. In West Sumba, that impact is being felt in so many ways. Following the boys’ plan, Save the Children and its partners dug the borehole, installed nine taps, and covered the costs. The community now has regular access to water – but so much more too. Children have more time to study and play. It’s easier for families to irrigate their vegetable gardens. Children can wash twice a day and go to school as a result. They have time and energy to play like children should. No-one is making the difficult journey anymore. Given what they’ve accomplished and the changemaker Sandy has become, it’s hard to believe he used to keep to himself. Now, he’s an outspoken advocate for issues affecting children and young people and has more big plans for his community. “We can make Indonesia much better,” he says, proud and full of confidence. Ulet Ifansasti / Save the Children
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