UNICEF/Cartedo announce COVID-19 Challenge to Empower Youth across Africa
Deadline: 13 June 2020
UNICEF has partnered with Cartedo to empower youth across Africa to solve a series of global grand challenges and positively impact communities while developing employability skills. They believe that youth have unique perspectives on these challenges and should be given the opportunity to become knowledge producers. This is your chance to Be seen, Be heard and Be the Change!
(Ad) Are You Searching for Latest Grants, New Donors, Sample Proposals, Jobs and How to Apply Resources? fundsforNGOs Premium has all these and more at one place! Learn more.
This challenge gives youth a voice in exploring how we might empower people and communities to become more pandemic-resilient. They are looking for your ideas to solve real challenges faced by real people just like you.
This challenge offers you the opportunity to develop future-ready employability skills like design thinking while contributing to the global efforts to tackle COVID-19. As you progress through this challenge, you’ll use a human-centered design approach to:
(Ad) Stop getting irritated with excessing advertisements. View the information you want quickly on a clean, ad-free and exclusive Member Dashboard that offers tools to search for grants, view latest grant opportunities, upcoming deadlines, sample proposals, downloadable ebooks and also organize your favourites! Learn more.
Discover how COVID-19 is impacting real people in different ways
Define these challenges from a human-centered perspective, and
Develop innovative solutions to these challenges
You’ll start by exploring human needs related to the COVID-19 pandemic and turn your findings into core challenges faced by real people. By using tools &techniques you will generate multiple ideas to solve these challenges and prototype solutions to share with people around the world.
Rewards
(Ad) Are you still finding it difficult to search for donors online? Join Premium and use our powerful Donor Search mechanism to find relevant donors based on your country and location or keyword. Our specially developed algorithm will search across the internet for the most relevant and useful donors of your interest willing to fund your work. Learn more.
Digital Certificate
All participants that complete the challenge in the prescribed format will receive a certificate of completion authorized by UNICEF, Botnar Foundation, Generation Unlimited and Scouts
Weekly Financial Rewards
N100,000 or USD265 (based on exchange rates) for the best idea every week for the first four weeks of the challenge
Mentorship
NITDA shall provide 2 slots of mentorship for the COVID-19 challenge winners in Nigeria. The mentorship will consist of 8 different direct interactions with NITDA, consisting of 30 mins.
Co-Creation Hub Mentorship
Lagos CC Hub offers 6 mentorship sessions to top achievers of the COVID-19 challenge. These sessions will focus on business advisory as well as research and user design advisory. These people will also receive a featured writeup about themselves and their solutions in the CCHub newsletter.
Mentorship, Innovation ecosystem introductions & Workspace vouchers
Lagos Innovates is offering mentorship to 2 top achievers. These lucky people will also be introduced to the Lagos innovation ecosystem, corporate and government agencies. Lagos Innovates is also offering workspace vouchers to the top 3 teams from Lagos (please note that they will not offer vouchers to teams who have won other COVID-19 challenges).
Mentorship
SAEDConnect is offering mentorship to 2 top achievers from Nigeria. This mentorship consists of 8 separate sessions with key mentors (30 mins each).
Free CV reviews, Soft Skills Training and Cover Story features
Jobberman is offering the following rewards to top performers. Free CV reviews to the top 20 winners, free soft skills training and a cover story featuring the winners.
Incubation
The 10 best ideas emerging out of Malawi will receive free incubation for three months through their Social Impact Incubator.
Mentorship & Investment Readiness assessment
Ventures Platform is offering 5 Mentorship slots (1 slot is 4 x 30 mins), 5 Partnership introductions & 5 Investment readiness assessments to top achievers from Nigeria.
zlto redemtion
Eligibility Criteria
Anyone over the age of 14 who identifies as Youth.
(Ad) Not able to keep track of so may different grant opportunities and their deadlines? No problem! fundsforNGOs Premium has a handy tool called « Deadline Calendar. » This tool will help you keep track of all upcoming grant opportunities and their deadlines and view them in a beautiful calendar format. Learn more.
For more information, visit https://app.cartedo.com/project/8/covid-19-challenge