• Capacity Development Provider
The Young Community Innovators program provides young people with the right tools, knowledge and motivation to help them identify, design and implement creative solutions to environmental and social challenges. With the help of our community innovation toolkit based on asset-based community and design thinking approaches, Young Community Innovators collaborate with community members to explore opportunities for creatively addressing issues in sanitation, safety, land degradation, poor infrastructure, falling standards of education and many others using local assets and resources. Young participants of this program have the opportunity to enroll for our social enterprise acceleration program for training, mentorship and access to funding through competitions to ensure they develop through idea to scale and the setting up of a social enterprise.
  • Stages of Support

    • Idea
    • Start-up
    • Early
    • Growth
    • Mature
  • Nonfinancial support delivery mechanism

    • Mentoring
    • Classroom / seminar training
    • Cohort or group support
    • Peer to Peer / Network-based Support
  • Intervention Type

    • Promote and educate about entrepreneurship
  • Sectors of Focus

    • Agriculture & Food
    • Education
    • Environment
    • Water & sanitation
    • Land conservation
  • Stakeholder or Business Model Focus

    • Social enterprise
    • Citizen empowerment
    • Rural communities
    • Youth entrepreneurs
    • Urban communities
  • Impact objectives

    • Agricultural productivity
    • Capacity building
    • Access to information
    • Access to clean water and sanitation