United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Open Innovation Challenge 2017
Implementing a Sustainable ‘African Youth (especially women) Entrepreneurship Online Portal’
UNDP has created an incredible online resource: ‘YAS! Youth for Africa and SDGs’.
If implemented innovatively, this online portal can be at the very centre of facilitating the much-needed contribution by African youth towards SDG attainment – but UNDP does not have the financial resources or the expertise to directly implement this portal, ensuring that it is sustainable and remains relevant over time.
The challenge?
How to sustainably implement YAS! in the very long run.
Have you designed and implemented successful online portal[s] before?
Or
Do you think you can implement an online portal in a sustainable manner, keeping it relevant in the very long run?
Share your ideas with us.
UNDP is inviting proposals from interested hosts who can implement YAS! in a sustainable manner, keeping it relevant over time. All proposals must present a clear operational and financial sustainability model and business plan for implementing YAS! over a 5-year period.
The Prize
UNDP will disburse up to US$160,000.00 (One Hundred Sixty Thousand US Dollars) over the next 2 years directly to the Innovator to seed their operational and financial sustainability plan for the implementation of YAS!.
Beyond that, the innovator will be expected to generate and mobilize resources to keep YAS! sustainable, hence the need for a 5-year operational and sustainability plan.
In addition, through YAS!, the host will be required to run and manage a minimum of US$200,000.00 (Two Hundred Thousand US Dollars) worth of Ecosystem and African Youth Entrepreneurship challenges for UNDP.
This US$200,000.00 is over and above the US$160,000.00 UNDP seed funding, or any other resources that the host will generate and mobilize for challenges on YAS!.
Application Deadline: May 31st 2017
To make your application for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Open Innovation Challenge 2017 here.
