Making Cents International is excited to be part of the team awarded the USAID-funded Ukraine National Identity Through Youth (UNITY) Activity. Led by IREX, this five-year activity is designed to foster vested ownership among the Ukrainian youth in their country’s democratic, European future by further mobilizing youth leadership of a values-based conception of Ukrainian identity grounded in innovation, engagement, and pluralism. To that end, UNITY will expand economic opportunities for youth through youth innovation, entrepreneurship, and career preparedness; broaden young people’s engagement in civic and community problem solving; support youth in driving pluralism and respect for diversity; and inform youth policy and programming.
Making Cents will support youth entrepreneurship through training, seed funding, and competitions and will lead private sector engagement activities aimed at increased youth employment. We will also undertake research and learning on youth-related data and build research capabilities of youth and youth-serving organizations engaged in the project.
We look forward to mobilizing Ukraine’s young leaders and entrepreneurs and to supporting IREX and USAID in this important endeavor.