United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Open Innovation Challenge 2017

UNDP is inviting proposals from interested hosts who can implement YAS! in a sustainable manner, keeping it relevant over time. All proposals must present a clear operational and financial sustainability model and business plan for implementing YAS! over a 5-year period. 
Type: Contest
Application Deadline: 31st May 2017
Eligible Countries: All
About the Award: UNDP has created an incredible online resource: ‘YAS! Youth for Africa and SDGs’.
If implemented innovatively, this online portal can be at the very centre of facilitating the much-needed contribution by African youth towards SDG attainment – but UNDP does not have the financial resources or the expertise to directly implement this portal, ensuring that it is sustainable and remains relevant over time.
The challenge? How to sustainably implement YAS! in the very long run.
Have you designed and implemented successful online portal[s] before?
Or

Do you think you can implement an online portal in a sustainable manner, keeping it relevant in the very long run?

Selection Criteria: UNDP will set up an evaluation committee, comprising mainly of UN staff, to review all proposals received using UNDP’s principles of fairness and integrity.
The following criteria will guide the selection of the winning proposal:
  1.  The expertise of the firm/organization
  2.  The details of the operational sustainability plan
  3. The details of the financial sustainability plan
Value of Program: UNDP will disburse up to US$160,000.00 (One Hundred Sixty Thousand US Dollars) over the next 2 years directly to the Innovator to seed their operational and financial sustainability plan for the implementation of YAS!. Beyond that, the innovator will be expected to generate and mobilize resources to keep YAS! sustainable, hence the need for a 5-year operational and sustainability plan.
In addition, through YAS!, the host will be required to run and manage a minimum of US$200,000.00 (Two Hundred Thousand US Dollars) worth of Ecosystem and African Youth Entrepreneurship challenges for UNDP. This US$200,000.00 is over and above the US$160,000.00 UNDP seed funding, or any other resources that the host will generate and mobilize for challenges on YAS!. These funds will be disbursed by UNDP directly to the winning enterprises and ecosystem support initiatives, under the auspices of the systems and procedures for awardee eligibility & selection criteria to be developed by UNDP and the innovator/YAS! host
How to Apply: 
  • Step 1: Download the detailed Terms of Reference and related background material for this open innovation challenge [from the right rail of this page].
  • Step 2: Develop your operational and financial sustainability plan
  • Step 3: Submit your operational and financial sustainability plan to this email address by no later than 23:59hrs EAT, 31 May 2017

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