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Key Partners
Status
Start year of the initiative:
2003 – still ongoing.
Next steps of initiative:
Regional and global expansion
Impact
Country(ies) of impact:
Bangladesh, China, Colombia, Denmark, Egypt, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Norway Philippines, Sweden, US, UK, Vietnam, and others
Number of people impacted annually:
Approximately 5,000 beneficiaries
Time to intended impact:
Less than 2 years
Metrics:
- Number of participating youth with life skills, vocational, and entrepreneurial training and internships and apprenticeships
- Number of participating youth who have started and grown their local business
Key Partners
Status
Start year of the initiative:
2003 – still ongoing.
Next steps of initiative:
Regional and global expansion
Impact
Country(ies) of impact:
Bangladesh, China, Colombia, Denmark, Egypt, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Norway Philippines, Sweden, US, UK, Vietnam, and others
Number of people impacted annually:
Approximately 5,000 beneficiaries
Time to intended impact:
Less than 2 years
Metrics:
- Number of participating youth with life skills, vocational, and entrepreneurial training and internships and apprenticeships
- Number of participating youth who have started and grown their local business
Save the Children and Accenture
Submitted by Accenture
Objective
To equip youth, particularly migrant groups, with vocational and life skills to get a job or build a business.
Overview and Main Activities
Accenture is a global corporate partner of the Save the Children organization, providing grants as well as the time and skills of Accenture’s global workforce in various locations around the world. To date, the full scope of the partnership has impacted over 27,000 people.
Accenture helps Save the Children to:
- Increase its reach to: provide skills training to ensure workplace success; provide vocational training to produce in-demand skills; provide entrepreneurial training for starting a new business; place youth in internships or apprenticeships; and help youth start growing their local business. Training is delivered via classrooms, e-learning or a blended learning approach, which incorporates both face-to-face and virtual tuition.
- Strengthen linkages between training providers, private-sector employers and government to create demand-driven training and job placement opportunities. The approach aspires to long-term programme sustainability by advocating Skills to Succeed market-based preparation, as well as placements within government vocational training systems, employers and job placement agencies. The strategy is multi-faceted, demonstrating alignment with private sector corporate social responsibility principles as well as business expansion and talent acquisition interests.
- Lead on advocacy in an effort to build a global coalition for youth employment.
- Support the use of technology in Accenture’s Skills to Succeed programming.
Grants also fund assessments of job market conditions and needs, help establish strong connections with prospective employers and provide advocacy for long-term change in governmental policies and programmes.
About the Organization
Website: www.accenture.com
Sector: Professional Services
Size (number of employees): 100,000+
Headquarters: Dublin, Ireland
For Further Engagement
Contact name: Katie Avari
Contact position: Programme Manager at Accenture
Email: [email protected]