Accenture and Save the Children share a vision for creating a more prosperous and secure future for young people. Their partnership equips youth with the skills they need to get a job or build a business and strives to train more than 58,000 young workers from 2017 to 2020, which contributes to Accenture’s Skills to Succeed corporate citizenship initiative goal of skilling 3 million people globally by 2020. Together, Accenture and Save the Children have created programming that reaches youth in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, and Vietnam.

Accenture and Save the Children are creating scalable and sustainable technology solutions to close employment gaps for marginalized and vulnerable youth. Through Accenture’s Skills to Succeed corporate citizenship initiative, the partnership offers transferable life skills, entrepreneurship, vocational and on-the-job skills training, career counselling, mentoring, business start-up services and job linkages to urban youth aged 15-24. Accenture and Save the Children also create digital solutions to empower youth, like BecaXR—an immersive tool that uses augmented and virtual reality to help young job seekers visualize potential careers and prepare for success. Accenture and Save the Children seek to provide 58,000 disadvantaged youth in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico and Vietnam with the skills needed to get a job or start a business. The goal is that at least 36,000 (63%) of them will secure a new or better-quality job or build a business. As a result, parents, schools, employers and governments will be more aware of the importance of these transferable life skills, and schools, training providers and partners will incorporate them into existing curricula. Employers’ awareness about youth workers’ rights will be expanded, improving workplaces. The partnership will generate evidence of its impact through research and evaluations to inspire systemic change and subsequent adoption of the initiative.

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