OPPORTUNITY DETAILS

Total reward

0 $

Association

United Nations Volunteers

Area

Asia-Pacific

Host Country

Thailand

Deadline

01 May 2017

Study level

Vocational Education

Opportunity type

Grants

Opportunity funding

Full funding

Eligible Countries

This opportunity is destined for all countries

Eligible Region

All Regions

Deadline: 1 May 2017
Open to: young people in the ASEAN countries
Benefits: Scale Up Grant worth up to 10,000 USD

Description

UN Volunteers Asia and the Pacific invites young people in the ASEAN countries to join the challenge.

Under the theme “Impact ASEAN”, Youth Volunteering Innovation Challenge (YVIC) supports volunteers to catalyze youth-led innovation for social impact and sustainable development by providing access to mentors and capital they need to grow and scale up their projects.

YVIC is looking for projects that focus on mobilizing volunteering for:

Localization of the SDGs;
Sustainable behavior;
Developing skills for life and work.

The focus of this regional workshop is to select and support teams whose projects have already been prototyped and are in the implementation and growth stage.

Eligibility

A team of 2-3 people;
All team members should be aged 18-30;
All team members must be currently residing in their home country: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore;
If selected, the winning teams must be able to work with their mentor after the workshop for 3 months;
Projects should demonstrate collaborative approaches of working with various partners from government, grassroots organizations, communities, networks.

Benefits

All paid trip to Bangkok, Thailand to attend the regional workshop as a team of 2 or 3.
Scale-Up Grant worth up to 10,000 USD and mentorship from YVIC partners on growth and expansion for 3 teams for the following 3 months.