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UPSHIFT

UNICEF’s global social innovator accelerator for young people aged 10–24, combining human-centred design, experiential learning, mentorship, workshops, entrepreneurial challenges, and seed funding.
Category: Impact Initiative

Description

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.