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The SDGs and Youth Social Entrepreneurship: A Perfect Fusion to Achieve a Better World by 2030
By Youth Co:Lab Singapoore What are the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? The SDGs were adopted by all United Nations Member States...
Youth Co:Lab
Feb 18, 20213 min read
Coming Soon! Springboard 2021
By Youth Co:Lab It is an exciting start of the year for the Springboard Programme of Youth Co:Lab, a business incubation platform for...
Youth Co:Lab
Jan 22, 20212 min read
Learning Journey of Youth Co:Lab Thailand 2020
Guest post by Youth Co:Lab Thailand and UNDP Thailand Experienced by youth, Initiated by youth, solutions by youth. This is the story of...
Youth Co:Lab
Dec 10, 20206 min read
The costs and benefits of battling corruption for young people
Joint post by Marte Hellema, Youth Co:Lab and Marcela Werutsky, UNDP Fair Biz Obtaining decent employment is a tough challenge for young...
Youth Co:Lab
Dec 9, 20205 min read
Contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals as an Indigenous Youth
Guest post by João Baptista Pereira Guterres I am João Baptista Pereira Guterres from the Malayo-Polynesian Indigenous community in...
Youth Co:Lab
Dec 9, 20204 min read
Lessons learnt from running a virtual incubator for startups during a pandemic
By Youth Co:Lab During the best of times, kick starting or running a business is an uphill battle. Now, COVID-19 has added a host of...
Youth Co:Lab
Nov 5, 20205 min read
Thailand’s social entrepreneurs reinvent business-models, learn from mentors, to cope with COVID-19
Guest post by UNDP Thailand The impacts of COVID-19 on the economy have deeply affected the business prospects of micro, small and...
Youth Co:Lab
Oct 23, 20203 min read
INTERVIEW: Chat with iHub Bhutan — How are entrepreneurs innovating in the face of COVID?
Guest post by Bishnu Chettri, UNDP Bhutan iHub Bhutan is a platform that aims to build a strong ecosystem for nurturing innovation and...
Youth Co:Lab
Aug 20, 20208 min read
Ethnographic Research on Youth Unemployment in Bhutan: Looking Beyond Statistics, For Stories
Joint post by UNDP Bhutan and Youth Co:Lab Stories, not statistics. This was our mantra as we embarked on three weeks of ethnographic...
Youth Co:Lab
Aug 17, 20205 min read
Moving forward during the COVID crisis – the story of Chandra Tripura
by Marte Hellema, Youth Co:Lab ‘In beginning, indigenous communities [were] more worried about food crisis rather than spread of virus,...
Youth Co:Lab
Aug 7, 20204 min read
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