• UNICEF’s ‘Passport to Earning’ (P2E) initiative has skilled and certified more than one million young people in India in areas of financial literacy and digital productivity.

• This milestone marks a major step towards helping them gain skills relevant to the future of work and life.

• About 62 per cent of all young learners who benefitted from P2E courses in India are adolescent girls and young women.

Passport to Earning initiative

• Passport to Earning (P2E) is a skilling platform which provides young people with free, job-relevant skills, and positions them for job opportunities. 

• It is a Public-Private-Youth Partnership hosted by UNICEF, through Generation Unlimited and co-founded by Microsoft, which aims to connect youth to opportunity by upskilling them towards entrepreneurship, employment and social impact. 

• The platform provides skilling and learning opportunities to enable new, continuous access to skilling, re-skilling, and upskilling requirements of young people across India.

• Facilitated by YuWaah and UNICEF India Country Office, P2E is being  implemented in India with the aim of impacting five million under-served and unemployed youth by building government capacity to provide long-term sustainable solutions to skilling and employment. 

• Aligned with the National Education Policy 2020, P2E provides free access to certificate courses in digital productivity, financial literacy, employability skills, and other in-demand, job-ready skills.

• The P2E solution also offers provisions for online, hybrid, and offline learning models.

• The digital learning platform aims to deliver long-term sustainable skilling to five million youth in the age group of 14-29 in India by 2024 and then connect them to opportunities in job, self-employment and entrepreneurship to be financially independent.

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