Unlimited ASEAN:
Empowering ASEAN’s young people through skills, employment, opportunities, and partnerships
17th November 2021
8:30am – 5:00pm Indochina
Event Agenda

About the Event

UNICEF East Asia Pacific Regional Office is embarking on a long-term strategy to transform young people’s futures in ASEAN through Generation Unlimited (“GenU”), a global, multi-sector partnership to meet the urgent need for expanded education, training and employment opportunities for young people on an unprecedented scale. Together with partners, UNICEF and Generation Unlimited aim to convene key public and private stakeholders and young people around a common agenda: to advance education, skills development, youth employment, and youth participation in response to national and regional priorities. Representing a shared agenda that connects businesses, governments, international organisations and youth, since its inception in 2018 Generation Unlimited has partnered with the World Bank, the ILO, PriceWaterhouse Coopers, Microsoft, SAP, and national governments around the world to catalyze investments towards youth development.

Proposed Event and Objectives
To kickstart Generation Unlimited – Unlimited ASEAN, UNICEF has reached out to key partners in the region, towards collaboratively hosting a 1-day virtual forum on November 17th, 2021 (8:30 am – 5:00pm, Indochina). The forum will:

1. Highlight innovative, inclusive and sustainable solutions to ensure that every adolescent and youth across ASEAN has access to best-in-class digital, financial and 21st century skills, training, and decent job opportunities;

2. Encourage high-level, scalable commitments and public-private collaboration and coordination among key actors to move the agenda forward;

3. Identify evidence gaps and promote linkages across partnerships and programmes for and with young people in ASEAN;

4. Advocate for establishing Generation Unlimited Secretariat within ASEAN to serve as a hub for young people’s collaboration, partnerships, research, and programmes.

The forum will leverage regional knowledge and secure firm commitments and investments from governments, business, and expert organizations on the right to education, skills, and decent job opportunities for all young people.

Speakers:
• Mr. Chris Humphrey, Executive Director, EU-ASEAN Business Council
• Mr. Thomas Thomas, CEO, ASEAN CSR Network
• Ms. Queenie Chong, Co-Founder & CEO, Memori (ASEAN Young Entrepreneurs Council)
• Ms. Deborah Melissa Bottreau, Managing & Creative Director, Sienna DMB Sdn Bhd (ASEAN Young Entrepreneurs Council)

Click HERE to view the Event Agenda.

(Disclaimer: This is not an AusCham Vietnam event, but is promoted in good faith as an event that may or may not be of interest to AusCham’s members).