Passport to Earning (P2E)
Skilling and preparing young people globally for a digitally powered and rapidly changing world of work.
In today’s fast-evolving world of work, millions of young people are being left behind due to limited access to relevant skills and opportunities. This not only hinders their ability to earn a sustainable livelihood but also slows social and economic progress. As technology reshapes industries, young people need access to the right tools, learning pathways, and support systems to adapt and thrive.
Across countries and contexts, the challenges vary—but they converge on three key needs:
- Identifying the skills that connect learning to earning;
- Expanding access to those skills; and
- Ensuring standardized, credible ways to verify them.
What is Passport to Earning (P2E)?
Generation Unlimited's Passport to Earning (P2E) is a global learning to earning programme, which leverages a digital platform to provide free, quality, job-relevant skills to better position young people to access advanced skilling, employment, and entrepreneurship opportunities.
P2E provides localized, co-curated training and partners with governments, private sector actors, civil society, and youth networks to deliver skilling at scale and connect learners to earning opportunities.
Launched in 2021 with Accenture, Dubai Cares, Microsoft, and UNICEF, P2E has already trained and certified more than 5 million young people in digital and AI literacy, financial literacy, and employability skills. P2E is currently being implemented in Bangladesh, Brazil, Egypt, India, Niger, Nigeria, the Philippines, and Rwanda.
Under P2E’s global strategy, the aim by 2030 is to:
- Skill 20 million young people across 15 countries, and
- Support 1 million to transition into advanced training, employment, or entrepreneurship
P2E's ambition for young people is enabled by Core Partners Accenture, Dubai Cares, Global Affairs Canada and Microsoft.
Together, we are expanding access to skills that open pathways for young people to learn and lead — like Muskaan, from rural India, who is applying her P2E-certified skills to drive change in her community. Read Muskaan’s story.
How P2E works
P2E is integrated into learning-to-earning pathways that respond to national priorities, labour market trends, and youth aspirations. These pathways guide the content, partnerships, and delivery models of each country’s P2E implementation.
Young people who complete training receive a certificate recognized by stakeholders, enabling access to advanced skilling and earning opportunities.
To maximize reach and impact, P2E:
- Curates digital content and platforms aligned with local skilling needs.
- Delivers training through schools, community centers, training institutes, and youth events such as job fairs and career orientation sessions.
- Integrates digital learning with physical engagement—using facilitators, localized content, and youth-friendly design to make learning accessible and effective.
- Builds government capacity in delivering, assessing, and certifying online skilling.
- Connects youth to earning opportunities through partnerships with government, private sector, digital platforms, and employment-focused organizations, among others
- Generates and shares evidence on large-scale skilling approaches to refine programme design and inspire future initiatives.
In 2024, P2E earned a Silver in the ‘Best of Technology for Good Initiative’ category at Engage for Good’s Halo Awards. Courses are hosted on Microsoft Community Training (MCT), the same platform that powers UNICEF’s Learning Passport. This platform providing digital learning for school-age children who struggle to access mainstream education was acknowledged as one of TIME magazine’s 100 Best Inventions of 2021.
For more details about how P2E works, read the Starter Kit document here.
