Generation

1 million jobs by 2020 and a new way of preparing young people for the workforce

Building skills for youth. Shaping skills for employers.

Generation will support one million young people to achieve jobs and skills across five countries (India, Kenya, Mexico, Spain, and US) in five years through employer pre-commitments, 8-12 week work readiness programs that blend technical, behavioral, and mindset skills for specific professions, social wrap-around services (e.g. stipends, childcare, transport), and on-going coaching support once the learner is placed at the employer.

USAID is supporting the work in India, Kenya, and Mexico. Generation is working to create a replicable approach focuses on the following themes: return on investment; scale and speed; disconnected youth: skills blend; and self-financing.

Partners

• United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

  Funding Agencies
  United States | Staff size: Unknown

  USAID is the lead U.S. Government agency that works to end extreme global poverty and enable resilient, democratic societies to realize their potential.

  U.S. foreign assistance has...

  USAID is the lead U.S. Government agency that works to end extreme global poverty and enable resilient, democratic societies to realize their potential.

  U.S. foreign assistance has always had the twofold purpose of furthering America's interests while improving lives in the developing world. USAID carries out U.S. foreign policy by promoting broad-scale human progress at the same time it expands stable, free societies, creates markets and trade partners for the United States, and fosters good will abroad.

  Spending less than 1 percent of the total federal budget, USAID works in over 100 countries to:

  • Promote broadly shared economic prosperity;
  • Strengthen democracy and good governance;
  • Protect human rights;
  • Improve global health,
  • Advance food security and agriculture;
  • Improve environmental sustainability;
  • Further education;
  • Help societies prevent and recover from conflicts; and
  • Provide humanitarian assistance in the wake of natural and man-made disasters.

• McKinsey & Company

  Service Providers, Development Consulting
  United States | Staff size: 1001-5000

  McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm that serves leading businesses, governments, non governmental organizations, and not-for-profits. They help clients make lasting...

  McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm that serves leading businesses, governments, non governmental organizations, and not-for-profits. They help clients make lasting improvements to their performance and realize their most important goals. Over nearly a century, they have built a firm uniquely equipped to this task.

  They serve clients at every level of their organization, in whatever capacity they can be most useful, whether as a trusted advisor to top management or as a hands-on coach for front line employees. For every engagement, they assemble a team with the most appropriate experience and expertise.

  No matter the challenge, they focus on delivering practical and enduring results, and equipping clients to grow and lead. They partner with clients to put recommendations into practice. The implementation specialists work directly with clients over long periods to help develop workforce skills, drive operational improvement, and apply new working methods.

  McKinsey’s Social Sector Office helps the world’s leading organizations develop and scale up solutions to chronic, complex societal challenges. The mission is to bring an objective, fact-based approach to all the work, accessing the best of McKinsey’s expertise in order to strengthen the clients' ability to deliver meaningful and sustainable change.

More Resources

• http://www.mckinsey.com/about_us/what_we_do/generation
• https://www.generationinitiative.org/