UPSHIFT - social impact workshop

UPSHIFT seeks to create youth-led social impact programs by providing them with the necessary 21st Century skill training,financial resources and mentorship.

UPSHIFT is created “By Youth For Youth” which aim to empowering most marginalize youth to identify and analyze issues in their communities,develop and lead projects to address these issues

In Vietnam, Indicator show that 85,8% young people have not had any technical training and only about 6,4% of young people have high technical capacity from college or university level. 

There almost have no program that give the opportunity for those who involved marginalize communities. Most of them lack of skills and confidence in their ability to resolve problems whether it be in a job or building their own business. 

We also ran UPSHIFT for 2 time: we reached 1668 youth directly through training outreach session with more than 50% of them are from marginalize communities.

Specific training for 40 marginalize youth, most of them can lead their own projects in real life create the specific impact for society and realize their role as agents of social change, building their professional readiness and resilience along the way.

They said that they have had learnt key personal skills like teamwork and conflict resolution; key livelihood skills like communication and organizational processes(project management, budgeting, and proposal writing)

1.Outreach session: 

Reaching online and offline aim to both marginalise youth and youth, introduce to basic ideation skills through outreach events.

2.Workshop&Incubation: 

A four day learning introduced some of the tools and techniques—like human-centered design,agile development,creative ideation,prototyping and user testing— in a social innovator’s toolkit. Participants work side-by-side with a mentor to move from challenge to solution,while engaging in networking and reflection activities in their down time. 

3.At the close, teams exhibit and pitch their solutions to a judging panel who selects projects for implementation and ongoing support from the Lab.

by pictures, participant lists and short reports after each event.

Have fanpage and have good growth. - Outreach event:

reach both offline and online.

at least 30.000 online

at least 800 marginalise youth by offline events.

after workshop they can finalize their project plan and be more confident to present it in 5 minutes.

Feedback from mentor, supporter and participants.

Plan base on lean canvas with clear: customer persona, problem and solution. - 10 team join in workshop with 4 member each team

3 team have the achievements to present in DEMO day and at least one team keep moving their project. - 5 team join in incubation

UPSHIFT is designed for youth empowerment,building the capacity of youth to take an entrepreneurial approach to social change by adapting the hands-on, learn-while-doing elements of a business incubator.An important capacity building activity for UPSHIFT is the incubation phase where the qualified teams are eligible for a ‘seed fund’ to empower them to kick start their proposed activities and to help accelerate the transition from idea to reality. UPSHIFT is part of program “By Youth For Youth” which builds personal strength and professional readiness, empowering Vietnam’s most marginalized youth to identify, analyze issues, develop and lead projects to address these issues

The overall purpose of the project is engagement vulnerable youth in learning activities that help build their abilities through team work, critical thinking, entrepreneurial and job seeking skills by networking,interacting and engaging with ‘to be’ and already established young entrepreneurs.

Four day learning experience that introduces youth to some of the tools and techniques in a social innovator’s toolkit. Participants work side-by-side with a mentor to move from challenge to solution, while engaging in networking and reflection activities in their down time. At the close, teams exhibit and pitch their solutions to a judging panel who selects projects for implementation

1.Outreach session: 

Reaching offline aim to both marginalise youth and youth, introduce to basic ideation skills through outreach events.

2.Workshop&Incubation: 

A four day learning introduced some of the tools and techniques—like human-centered design, agile development,creative ideation, and prototyping and user testing— in a social innovator’s toolkit. Participants work side-by-side with a mentor to move from challenge to solution, while engaging in networking and reflection activities in their down time.

3.At the close of the workshop, teams exhibit and pitch their solutions to a judging panel who selects projects for implementation and ongoing support from the Lab.

UPSHIFT currently is supported by UNICEF - long term partners of the child protection programme, education programme and Ho Chi Minh City Programme Partnerships Office, including the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Science and Technology (DoST) and CSO run social protection centres and organisations, such as Thao Dan Social Protection Organisation as well as vocational skills training schools, such as Nhan Dao Vocational School, will be mobilised to ensure that most vulnerable adolescents and young people get the necessary support and motivation to participate in and benefit from UPSHIFT.

Private sector and other partners may also be mobilised via VYE to support or donate venue space or supply sponsors, while media and communication partners may be mobilised to help tell the story of UPSHIFT in Viet Nam to the local business community. 

The main challenge was the difficulties in contact the social protection centres and regional shelters. 

These communities are closed and private, they don’t want to connect with media and other organization especially international organization. Social protection centres request government permission or introduction letter to approach.

Besides, the lack of acknowledgement and mindset about social standard of vulnarable/marginalized youth. Make it hard for them to understand the concept and going far in UPSHIFT. Many 14 – 24 year olds marginalized people just had elementary education level, and they didn’t even understand what is right or wrong in social standard

https://www.facebook.com/upshiftvn/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/upshiftvietnam

Vietnam, a developing country, has so many problems and youth are lack of skills which maked them lack of opportunities in future job. UPSHIFT targets adolescents girls and boys, focus young women aged 12 -24 from the most vulnerable communities in Vietnam, with a special emphasis on out of school youth, migrant youth, youth living in poverty, with reduced mobility, and other marginalized groups.

We build UPSHIFT with the hope that it can become the world's most scalable education models that prepare disadvantaged youth for the workforce of the future.

UNICEF, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Science and Technology (DoST) and CSO run social protection centres and organisations, such as Thao Dan Social Protection Organisation, Nhan Dao Vocational School. VYE (Vietnam Youth Entreupreneur)

Currently UPSHIFT have no competitors.