Empowering Youth on

Resilience

THE YOUTH EMPLOYMENT CHALLENGE (PRE-COVID-19)

“In Asia-Pacific over 220 million youth are not in employment, education or training while 86 million youth underemployed and 31 million youth currently unemployed”

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A MOVEMENT TO MAINSTREAM

YOUTH LEADERSHIP, SOCIAL INNOVATION AND

ENTRERENEURSHIP

IN AND EMPOWER YOUTH TO ACCELERATE IMPLEMETATION OF SDGs THROUGH

IT AIMS TO ESTABILISH A COMMON AGENDA FOR ASIA-PACFIC COUNTRIES TO INVEST

LEADERSHIP, SOCIAL INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

THE YOUTH CO:LAB THEORY OF CHANGE

UPSTREAM• Systemic approach

to youth

employment

• Ecosystem

diagnostic and

policy support

• Action Oriented

Research

DOWNSTREAM

MIDSTREAM• Youth Empowerment

Alliance

• Newtork of network

• Regional Summits

• Financial solutions

• Advocacy for behavior

change

• Springboard

incubation

programme

• Movers / Skills for

self-employment

• National dialogues /

innovation challenges

An Enabling

Environment/ Policies

Strengthen the Ecosystem/

Value chain development

Capacity Development

LIST OF COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES IN 2019-2020

BANGLADESH

BHUTAN

CHINA

MONGOLIA

INDONESIA

MALAYSIA

NEPAL

PAKISTAN

PHILIPPINES

SOLOMON ISLANDS

SRI LANKA

THAILAND

VIETNAM

VANUATU

SAMOA

MALDIVES

INDIA

FIJI

SOUTH KOREA

AUSTRALIA

JAPAN

CAMBODIA

LAOS

SINGAPORE

TIMOR - LESTE

Hong Kong (SAR)

75,000+Attendees at hosted and

co-hosted events

5,000+Young Social Entrepreneurs'

capacity built

600+Social Enterprises built up

or created

29Asia-Pacific Countries reached

and collaborate with stakeholders

186+Key Regional Partners joined

Youth Co:Lab's Youth

Empowerment Alliance

USD 29M+Resources mobilized for Youth

Co:Lab from government and

private sector partners

5 + 1**Research and Knowledge

Products upcoming in 2020

WHAT HAVE WE ACHIEVED?

200,000+Youth Co:Lab community

on Facebook

USD 1.3MResources mobilized for Youth

Co:Lab social enterprises

33,000+People benefiting from Youth Co:Lab

social enterprises

National

SpringboardIdeation/

Hackathon

National

Dialogue

Regional

SpringboardYouth Co:Lab

Summit

Inspire Idea Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

Prototype + Market Potential

Prototype + Traction

Product Development Focus(on/offline - 2 months)

Brand and Business Focus(online - 3 months)

Launch / Market Access

Ongoing mentorship and

network support

Grow

Overcoming the early

startup

“valley of death”

- Skills - Community support

- Mentors - Connections- Showcasing opportunities

Inspirations and

Hackathons Incubations Next StepsSpringboard Programme

Valley of Death

“Youth Co:Lab helps

youth

entrepreneurs to

reduce failures

during their startup

journey”

Mentorship & Facilitation Incubation & Acceleration Crowdfunding Mentorship and Networking

“UNDP collaborates

with 186 like-

minded partners

on this agenda to

support youth

entrepreneurs”

ENGAGING YOUTH & PRIVATE SECTOR FOR SDGs

STRENGTHENING THE ECOSYSTEM

Network of local & subnational stakeholders

P2P SKILLS BUILDING PLATFORM

SOCIAL INNOVATION CHALLENGES

VIRTUALPRE-INCUBATION

PROGRAMME

YOUTH CO:LAB OFFERINGS TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

YOUTH EMPOWERMENT ALLIANCE OF PARTNERS

FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS

SYSTEMTIC APPROACH

UPSTREAM MIDSTREAM DOWNSTREAM

TYPE OF INTERVENTION

CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT

CREATING ENABLING ENVIRONMENT & POLICIES

DIAGNOSTIC SOLUTIONS

Diagnosing local and subnational

entrepreneurship ecosystems

LOCAL & SUBNATIONAL

FORUMS

Faciliate dialogue and discussions

RESEARCH & KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTS

On key local thematic areas of

interest

Systems approach to mapping key local enablers and barriers

Funding and investments to

support local social innovations

HEALTH FIRST

PROTECTING PEOPLE

ECONOMIC RESPONSE, RECOVERY

SOCIAL COHESION

MACROECONOMICS

A health, humanitarian and development crisis.

Equivalent full-time jobs projected to be lost in Asia-Pacific in

Q2 2020

235 MILLION

Young people are out of work globally due

to COVID-19

1 in 6 Of young entrepreneurs in Asia-Pacific negatively impacted by COVID-19

86%

People projected to be pushed into poverty in

Asia-Pacific

442 MILLION

COVID-19 IMPACTS UNDP’S COVID-19 RESPONSE

GOVERNANCE

GREEN ECONOMY

SOCIAL PROTECTION

DIGITAL DISRUPTION AND INNOVATION

Integrated solutions to help young people and countries prepare for, respond to and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and ensure we leave no one behind.

CRISIS RESPONSE & POLICY SUPPORT

Support inclusive policy responses to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19 on youth-

led MSMEs and youth livelihoods and drive systemic change

BUILDING SKILLS & CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT

Virtual skill developmentplatform supporting young people to

acquire key employability skills and knowledge on SDGs

ONLINE PRE-INCUBATION PROGRAMME (SPRINGBOARD)Virtual pre-incubation program for youth startups addressing key aspects of startup transformation to address COVID-19 impacts

Dedicated startup support program to improve the fundraising capacity of the startups to address COVID-19 impacts

START-UP SUPPORT & MENTORING

MATCHMAKING WITH OTHER ECOSYSTEM PARTNERS

Matchmaking with other ecosystem partners and initiatives to improve the startup survival rates

RAISE AWARENESS & INSPIRE ACTION

Raise awareness and increase knowledge on how COVID-19 is impacting young entrepreneurs, and

inspire those who can, to act and support their communities

MAPPING & CO-CREATION OF YOUTH INITIATIVESMapping of various COVID-19 responses by ecosystem partners and leveraging opportunities to co-create new initiatives to support youth

YOUTH CO:LAB’S COVID-19 RESPONSE

1. Addressing basic needs and supporting essential services

• Produce (PPE) - SEPAK (Cambodia)

• Distribution of PPEs or other basic supplies – Bundle (Bhutan)

• Solving transportation challenges of essential workers – Life Cycles

(Philippines)

• Addressing the particular needs of vulnerable communities – Deaf Tawk

(Pakistan)

2. Supporting authorities to manage the crisis

• Creating online systems to predict or track cases and assisting with surveying

the needs of affected communities – AI4GOV (Philippines)

3. Supporting mental well-being

• Providing videos and remote mental health services or encouraging people to

exercise – Mindo (Bangladesh)

4. Raise awareness and distribute critical information

• Disseminating accurate and critical information about COVID-19 to their

communities – MyMizu (Japan)

4 WAYS OUR INNOVATORS RESPONDED TO COVID-19

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