UN Women’s Second Chance Education and Vocational Training programme gives a second chance to young women who have missed out on education. Through local organisations, it offers face-to-face training, support with learning, and help with getting back into formal education.

It helps women in their efforts to earn income by making sure their learning is linked to local earning opportunities.

The programme is in a pilot phase until December 2023 in six countries: Australia, Cameroon, Chile, India, Jordan and Mexico.

Read more about the programme on the About page.

Contact the local partners in your country. Select your country from the dropdown list at the top of this site and go to the About page for contact details.

All the courses on this website are hosted on other websites. They are all free. You usually have to create an account on the provider's website in order to do the courses.

The courses created by the SCE partners in the six countries are usually blended courses that combine face-to-face training with online materials. Contact the local partners in your country to find out more - contact details are on the About page for each country.

No. You can browse freely to see what’s available. All the courses shown on this site are hosted on other websites, such as the UN Women Training Centre. They are all free but you usually have to create an account on the website of the provider in order to complete the courses.

If you want to enrol in the Second Chance programme, contact the local partners in your country. Select your country from the dropdown list at the top of this site and go to the About page for contact details.

Each of the six countries in the pilot programme (from 2018 to 2023) have their own site, which you can select from the dropdown box at the top of the page. There is also a ‘Global’ site, for visitors who want an overview of the programme or who don't come from any of the six pilot countries.