• Capacity Development Provider

United Nations Development Programme – Youth Co:Lab

Youth Co:Lab positions young people front and center in order to solve the region’s most pressing challenges. Co-created in 2017 by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Citi Foundation, Youth Co:Lab aims to establish a common agenda for countries in the Asia-Pacific region to empower and invest in youth, so that they can accelerate the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through leadership, social innovation and entrepreneurship.

  • Stages of Support

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

Organization Programs

Regional Programs: Youth Co:Lab Initiative

  • Investment Instruments

    • Grant

  • Sectors of Focus

    • Green and Renewable Energy
    • Sustainable Agriculture and Aquaculture
    • Sustainable Infrastructure and Transportation
    • Water and Sanitation
    • Circular Economy and Waste Reduction
    • Clean Air and Pollution Reduction
    • Ecotourism and Conservation
    • Sustainable Forestry and Reforestation
    • Disaster Risk Reduction and Mitigation

  • Services

    • Conduct research on the sector to disseminate publicly (such as an entrepreneurship research report)
    • Host events for entrepreneurs or entrepreneur support intermediaries
    • Provide financial support to entrepreneur-support intermediaries

  • 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
    • Talent development/HR (including leadership)
    • Operations and technology development or adoption
    • Legal, accounting, other office services

  • Investment linkages services

    • Access to information/research
    • Pitch readiness
    • Access to investors

  • Program online

    • Hybrid

  • 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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