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UNICEF launches COVID-19 Design Challenge for Malawian Youth

The challenge involves youth actively finding innovative ways to fight COVID-19

A boy carries a drone in Kasungu
UNICEF Malawi/2017/Eldson Chagara

Objectives of the challenge:

The challenge involves youth actively finding innovative ways to fight COVID-19 and provide young people with opportunities to creatively engage the current and future challenges the pandemic provides.

The challenge will use an online design thinking platform called CARTEDO with the aim to:

  • Democratize access to reliable information and capitalize on youth networks to drive awareness of COVID-19
  • Give youth a voice in finding ways to prevent and mitigate the longer-term impacts of COVID-19 on Malawian society
  • Develop youth skills that will enhance their future employability
  • The production of viable prototypes and fundable solutions/organizations post the COVID-19 Challenge through incubation of the top 10 solutions
  • Produce viable prototypes and fundable solutions/organizations post the COVID-19 Challenge through the incubation of the top 10 solutions

Target audience (Who should participate?):

 Anyone over the age of 14 who identifies as youth

Duration (Start date and end date): 

Online: 1 June - 30 June 

Incubation:  July-September

Rewards/Incentives

  • Get certified in design thinking as you develop products, services, and solutions to the challenges faced by people in your community like misinformation & trust, depression, income insecurity and stalled learning. Everyone who finishes this challenge will receive a certificate of participation from UNICEF, acknowledging your positive contribution in the fight against this pandemic. See the Rewards tab for more details.
  • Segal Family Foundations, Social Impact Incubator Malawi will support the top 10 solutions by providing incubation service from the Ideation Phase to the Implementation Phase of the innovations. Incubation for the COVID-19 challenge will be tailor-designed to develop the winning ideas into high impact solutions and prepare them for scale.  The key output will be the production of viable prototypes, and fundable solutions/organizations post the COVID-19 Challenge.

This UNICEF COVID-19 Youth Challenge is powered by an incredible collaboration with Segal Family Foundation, CARTEDO, Fondation Botnar and UK Aid.

Follow the link below to APPLY and to read the rules of the challenge:

https://app.cartedo.com/project/8/covid-19-challenge

UNICEF COVID-19 Youth Challenge poster