About Us
Yoma is a digital marketplace that opens up a world of opportunities to young people.
Yoma is a partnership ecosystem, enabled by technology, that creates pathways that improve youth&s employability. This collaborative approach seeks to disrupt the fragmented youth development landscape with young people using a unique digital identity to seamlessly navigate opportunities to learn, earn, and impact their environment and communities.
Understanding the challenge and the opportunity
More than1 billion young talentsare expected to enter the workforce by 2030. Given the limited opportunities and to meet the changing demands of the labor market, young people will need to be equipped with a set of skills and competencies to compete globally and locally.
To address this issue, UNICEF and Foundation Botnar organised workshops in 2019 with youth across Africa to gain a deeper understanding of the challenges contributing to high youth unemployment. Using a human-centered design thinking approach, youth identified two key challenges:
Fragmented Opportunities
Youth expressed they feel lost in a fragmented system and they struggle to identify meaningful opportunities that will result in a job.
Limited Opportunities
Opportunities are scarce, primarily concentrated in large cities, and mostly accessible to more privileged socio-economic groups.
Grow
Improve young people's skills through learning opportunities and showcase them on Yoma to pursue their dreams
Impact
Young people can make a difference in their community and build a profile by participating in Yoma impact tasks
Thrive
Young people can track their progress on Yoma YoID and unlock new skills by completing opportunities
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#Youth4Change!
To maximize the potential of young people and accelerate action toward towards the SDGs, UNICEF together with Yoma introduce Youth4Change (Y4C): an approach where young people can learn, earn and make impact at scale! Y4C taps into a "Youth (Work)Force", which aims to activate millions of youth to drive results for children, youth and communities. Yoma, as an innovative digital technology and ecosystem solution, is a core engine to empower youth as agents of change.
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