The Youth Volunteering Innovation Challenge with UN Volunteer

The Youth Volunteering Innovation Challenge (YVIC), under the theme “Impact ASEAN,” supports young volunteers throughout the ASEAN region in their journey to catalyze youth-led innovation for social impact and sustainable development by providing access to mentors and capital they need to start or scale up their projects.

The program is to promote the idea of ‘leaving no-one behind’ and social innovation.

Nationality: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore.

There are three focus areas that you should have a look:

• Leveraging volunteering for localization of SDGs
• Sustainable behavior
• Developing skill for life and work

The applying teams will be judged on the basis of:

• Needs Analysis: An analysis of the social issue and its affected population
• Well-defined Target Group: Characteristics of the market and targeted population.
• Management: An assessment of the teams.
• Creativity and Feasibility: A demonstration that the idea is unique and can be successfully implemented.
• Sustainability: Long-term prospects for viability and success.
• Social Impact: The value that the new venture will bring to society.
• Scalability: Potential to scale up to the regional level
• Presentation

Important information:

• A team of 2-3 people (each member should be between the age of 18 to 30)
• Projects should demonstrate collaborative approaches of working with various partners from government, grassroots organizations, communities, networks.
• If selected, the winning teams must be able to work with their mentor and start implementing their project right after the workshop.

To apply: online

Click here to go to online application form

Deadline: 23:59 on May 1, 2017