Apply to Participate in HLM3 Asia–Pacific Youth Innovation Challenge to Address Child Rights, Deadline: 4 September 2016

UNICEF is inviting young people to participate in a Billion Brains’ 3rd Asia Pacific High-Level Meeting on Child Rights (HLM3) Youth Innovation Challenge to share their ideas to improve the lives of children.

By finding creative and impactful solutions to improve the lives of children, participants are doing both social and economic “good” – investing in their lives and the long-term economic growth of their country.

Hosted every three years by a different country, the Government of Malaysia will hold the 3rd High Level Meeting on Child Rights (HLM3) in Kuala Lumpur this year on November 7-8 November 2016.

Thematic Areas

HLM3 will address and promote child rights around three key themes:

1. Universal health coverage
2. Violence against children
3. Social protection for families

Program Benefits

HLM3 provides opportunities to the young participants to:

• Learn through online training and mentorship
  Join a program that provides structure and guidance to developing your idea into a winning social innovation
• Attend the innovation Bootcamp in Malaysia
  Shortlisted participants get to attend our fully-funded Innovation Bootcamp in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with other changemakers from across the Asia-Pacific region.
• Pitch to senior Government officials
  Top ideas from the Innovation Bootcamp will pitch to senior government officials at the Third Asia-Pacific High-Level Meeting on Child Rights (HLM3)
• Get seed funding to take the idea forward
  Winners will receive seed money to help implement their solutions in their home country and follow-up mentorship

Eligibility Criteria

Challenge participant should:

• Be 24 years old or younger
• Have good English comprehension and communication skills (English is the official language of all Challenge-related communication).
• Be a legal resident of participating countries in Southern Asia and East Asia Pacific.
• Have a valid email address.

How to Apply

Interested participants must submit their ideas online via given website.

Eligible Countries

Timor-Leste, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Pakistan, Bhutan, Cambodia, Thailand, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Mongolia, Bangladesh, China, Indonesia, Philippines, Myanmar, Vietnam.

For more information, please visit HLM3.