• Capacity Development Provider

United Nations Development Programme (SDG Impact Accelerator Program)

SDG Impact Accelerator Program, Thailand Social Innovation Platform, Youth Co Lab

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Thailand acts as a bridge to connect key ecosystem players ranging from entrepreneurs, governments, corporates, universities, investors and other relevant stakeholders together to foster new partnerships for the SDGs and a greener and fairer world by 2030. It also creates a space for people and businesses in Thailand with an interest in social innovation to visit on a regular basis whether to look for inspiration, new partnerships, ideas for school projects, etc... Additionally, it also runs the one and only SDG focused incubation and acceleration programs in Thailand that provides support to enterprises from ideation to execution to scale up phrase. The programs focus on both business development and SDG impact lens with an ultimate goal of making these enterprises investment ready. Since last year, UNDP broadened the scope of work beyond social innovation towards leveraging an impact investment ecosystem in Thailand where UNDP will, starting from Bangkok, acts as a bridge to connect enterprises with potential impact investors from Thailand and abroad.

  • Stages of Support

    • Idea
    • Start-up
    • Early
    • Growth
    • Mature

  • Sectors of Focus

    • Sector agnostic

  • Services

    • Conduct research on the sector to disseminate publicly (such as an entrepreneurship research report)
    • Host events for entrepreneurs or entrepreneur support intermediaries
    • Manage an incubator or provide co-working space for entrepreneurs
    • Run an accelerator program

  • Nonfinancial Services

    • Capacity development services
    • Investment linkages

  • Capacity development services

    • Access to networks and partners
    • Business strategy and planning
    • Performance or impact measurement and management support

  • Investment linkages services

    • Access to information/research
    • Pitch readiness
    • Technical support on term sheets or investment structuring
    • Access to investors
    • Legal due diligence

  • Program online

    • Primarily in-person

  • Focus Tech

    • No

  • Focus Population

    • Refugees and/or internally displaced people
    • Rural entrepreneurs
    • Youth entrepreneurs
    • Base of the pyramid population
    • Women entrepreneurs
    • Entrepreneurs with disabilities
    • Minority or previously excluded racial ethnic or other population
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