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UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, protects children’s rights and supports child health, nutrition, education, water and sanitation, protection, and humanitarian assistance in more than 190 countries and territories.
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UPSHIFT


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UPSHIFT is a UNICEF youth social innovation and social entrepreneurship programme. It equips disadvantaged young people with transferable skills and supports them through a modular learning journey to identify community challenges, design and prototype solutions, pitch projects, and develop products or services. It is adapted and delivered through schools, youth centres, vocational training, and other local systems in more than 50 countries.

Category: Impact Initiative

The Learning Passport


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The Learning Passport is a UNICEF-led education programme and flexible learning-management platform delivered online, through mobile devices, and in offline settings. It provides localized curricula and supplementary global educational resources, supports formal and non-formal learning, enables personalized learning records and progress tracking, and is designed for use in low-connectivity, crisis-affected, and marginalized communities. The platform is powered by Microsoft Community Training.

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U-Report


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U-Report is a UNICEF-created global youth-engagement initiative active in more than 90 countries. Young people participate through polls, chatbots, messaging apps, SMS and the U-Report app; their insights inform UNICEF and partners, while local communities support youth-led action.

Category: Impact Initiative

Oky


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Oky is a girl-centered digital menstruation and adolescent-health learning platform combining cycle tracking, calendars, evidence-based localized education, daily diaries, tips, quizzes, avatars and themes. It is designed for offline and low-connectivity use, lower-end phones, accessibility and privacy. UNICEF identifies itself as Oky’s owner and founding partner; local partners deploy localized versions through a social-franchise model. Oky is recognized as a Digital Public Good.

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FunDoo


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FunDoo is a UNICEF youth-learning initiative developed with Generation Unlimited India and Udhyam Learning Foundation. It provides bite-sized, self-paced and gamified learning modules through WhatsApp, Telegram, Instagram, Facebook Messenger and SMS, with certificates, skills badges and learner boards. It launched in India and later expanded internationally.

Category: Impact Initiative

Accessible Digital Textbooks For All


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Accessible Digital Textbooks for All is a UNICEF-led, country-oriented education initiative developed with partners to make curriculum materials available in accessible digital formats. It applies Universal Design for Learning and supports formats and features including EPUB, HTML, narration, text-to-speech, image descriptions, interactivity, easy-read content, and sign-language video. The portal also presents ADT Studio as an open-source, AI-powered technical solution for converting existing curriculum materials into accessible HTML.

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Bebbo


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Bebbo is a UNICEF-developed, open-source mobile parenting application for families with children from pregnancy through age six. It provides science-based articles, videos, recipes, games and personalized guidance on health, nutrition, breastfeeding, responsive parenting, safety, early learning, child development and parental wellbeing, plus milestone, growth, vaccination and health check-up tracking. It operates online and offline and has been localized for multiple countries and languages.

Category: Impact Initiative

Passport To Earning (P2E)


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Passport to Earning is a UNICEF-operated digital learning and skilling programme under the Generation Unlimited partnership. It provides localized, co-curated online, mobile, and offline training for young people, generally aged 15–24, covering digital and AI literacy, financial literacy, employability, entrepreneurship, and other job-relevant skills. Learners can receive certificates and connect with further training, employment, and entrepreneurship opportunities.

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Giga


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Established in 2019, Giga develops open-source solutions and provides end-to-end support for school connectivity through mapping, monitoring, infrastructure modeling, finance, contracting and capacity development.

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