This presentation introduces the GOYN Global Equity & Structural Justice Framework, developed in partnership with GOYN Anchor Partners and Dalberg Advisors.

GOYN’s ‘The Future is Young’ Learning Series seeks to lift up emerging practices and evidence around how community Collaboratives can deliver tangible economic opportunities for youth. This second installment presents GOYN’s approach to partnering, mobilizing and connecting with young people. Read More

GOYN’s ‘The Future is Young’ Learning Series seeks to lift up emerging practices and evidence around how community Collaboratives can deliver tangible economic opportunities for youth. This second installment presents GOYN’s approach to partnering, mobilizing and connecting with young people. The Executive Summary of this Learning Brief includes… Read More

In 2022 the Aspen Forum for Community Solutions celebrated 10 years of leading and supporting work with OY and institutions across communities in the US, centered on equity, justice, and healing. This session from the GOYN Equity Summit 2021 focuses on progress made over the last 10 years and its… Read More

In this session from the GOYN Equity Summit 2021, GOYN Youth Leaders, Anchor Partners, and Global Partners discuss how we can shift local and global perceptions and narratives about Opportunity Youth by telling their stories through an Equity lens. Moderator: Gichobi Stanley, Global Development Incubator Panelists: • Itzel… Read More

In this session from the GOYN Equity Summit 2021, GOYN Global and Anchor Partners share effective frameworks and practices when supporting and engaging Opportunity Youth. Moderator: Petula Nash, Catholic Relief Services Panelists: • Lucy Steinitz, Catholic Relief Services • Bobby Zachariah, Lighthouse Communities Foundation… Read More

In this closing session from the first day of the GOYN Equity Summit 2021, young people share their vision for equity through music and innovation.

In this session from the GOYN Equity Summit 2021, GOYN Global Partners CRS, GDI and YouthBuild discuss the work that they are doing to support equity within their own organizations, beyond GOYN. Panelists highlight the different ways this engagement on equity issues can look like from an individual level to… Read More

In this session from the GOYN Equity Summit 2021, GOYN community partners share how they are working with global and regional employers and local institutions to create access to livelihood pathways that are intentionally focused on inclusion of highly marginalized Opportunity Youth. Moderator: Annu Mehta, Global Development Incubator Panelists:… Read More

In this session from the GOYN Equity Summit 2021, young leaders from diverse global communities share how they are leveraging their lived experience and talent to lead innovative work to address the needs of highly marginalized groups of Opportunity Youth like trans youth, differently abled youth, and young people involved… Read More

In this webinar organized by GOYN as part of YEO 2030, members of GOYN collaboratives in Mombasa, Sao Paulo, eThekwini and Ramgarh share their experiences and lessons learned from setting up a Collaborative Infrastructure for youth employment in their communities.

This CRS/GOYN webinar brings together the GOYN team, its local partners and Opportunity Youth to: share the successes and learnings from GOYN’s approach to authentic youth engagement and partnership across diverse global communities outline lessons learned when engaging and partnering with Opportunity Youth share a recommended set of practices to… Read More

GOYN’s ‘The Future is Young’ Learning Series seeks to identify and present scalable solutions for youth economic opportunity that can inspire others to act. This first installment makes the case for investing in young people and presents the cornerstone of GOYN’s approach: the creation of Collaborative Infrastructure for scaled impact… Read More

This report lays out some of the early accomplishments and learnings of GOYN. At the global level, GOYN is a vibrant and active learning network. Through monthly meetings and regular youth-led convenings as well as by forming communities of practice related to common themes, GOYN aims to develop a… Read More

Young people around the world are facing joint and daunting crises of global unemployment and the COVID-19 pandemic. As of 2018, over 350 million young people aged 15-29 were “Opportunity Youth” (OY) – out of work, out of school or training, or in unstable and sometimes unsafe informal work.The… Read More

The jobs and livelihoods sector has transformed significantly over the past decade, and is expected to see even greater shifts in the coming years. Population shifts given the youth bulge, climate, conflict and urbanization are driving challenges overall, while the changing nature of work in the form of automation and… Read More