About UNICEF Office of Innovation (OOI)
UNICEF’s Office of Innovation is an agile global team supporting our mission to be a public sector innovation leader. OOI aligns with diverse partners to boldly explore, design, iterate, and scale innovative approaches and technologies to deliver equitable and sustainable social impact. Our collective efforts deliver opportunity for children and youth today and set an accelerated pace of change for generations to come.
Across more than 190 countries and territories, UNICEF operates to help children and their communities survive, thrive and fulfil their potential. We advocate for and with children, support countries set and deliver agendas that prioritize children’s rights, and unlock diverse resources to achieve these ambitious goals. Find out more at www.unicef.org/innovation
About the UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth
The Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth serves as a global advocate for the needs and rights of young people and a bridge between the United Nations (UN) and young people worldwide. The Envoy is mandated by the UN Secretary-General to spearhead the implementation of the first-ever UN system-wide youth strategy, Youth 2030, across the UN system, ensuring expanded global, regional and country-level action to improve the UN’s work with and for young people. In this way, both the Office of the Secretary General’s Envoy on Youth (OSGEY) and Youth2030 share a common vision of a world in which the human rights of every young person are realized; a world that ensures every young person is empowered to achieve their full potential; and a world that recognizes young people’s agency, resilience and positive contributions as agents of change.
OSGEY worked to expand the UN’s youth engagement and advocacy efforts across sustainable development, human rights, peace and security, and humanitarian action through the Office’s four strategic approaches: participation, advocacy, partnerships and coordination. Learn more about OSGEY at https://www.un.org/youthenvoy/
About U-Report
U-Report is UNICEF’s flagship digital platform to engage adolescents and youth in programme, emergency response, and advocacy actions. With over 29 million U-Reporters, it is active in 93 countries and growing by one U-Reporter every 4 seconds.
U-Report operates as a messaging platform for youth participation and is a key tool for sharing information and receiving feedback on specific areas that impact young people, including the most vulnerable. Through it, youth actively participate in decision-making processes and speak out to achieve social change. For more information, visit www.ureport.in.