MAKE letters - World Maker Education Alliance · 4 Adapted from human-centred and user-centred...

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MAKE letters Content | This first publication of MAKE letters shares news offered by Ms. Abnora BERISHA from the Innovation Lab, hosted by UNICEF, in Kosovo. Here below UNICEF’s initiative “Upshift” will be introduced. Editor’s Note | If anyone wishes to offer alternative designs or ideas for the newsletter, your input is certainly welcome. It is the aim the newsletter would become part of the website and members would ideally be given access to edit their own online pages. More on this potential shall be shared later. A letter is being drafted with further news on the upcoming 2017’s gathering of the WMEA members.

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1 UPSHIFT:SocialImpactWorkshop

OverviewUPSHIFT helps marginalized adolescents and youth become social innovators and social entrepreneurs by providing experiential learning in understanding community challenges and designing and building solutions in the form of products or services, and starting and leading the ventures that deliver them.

BackgroundThe Innovations Lab hosted by UNICEF Kosovo (UNSC 1244) Programme has worked at the intersection of adolescents and youth, entrepreneurship, and innovation from its inception in 2010. In 2013, recognizing the opportunity to improve the equity, impact, and fit with UNICEF strategic objectives of existing models, the Lab initiated development of UPSHIFT. The Lab leads the iterative and collaborative1 development of UPSHIFT, and has deployed the 10 cycles of the model and/or its components to date.

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ObjectivesThe model’s twin core outcomes are increases in participants’ resilience2 and in their capacitation in key 21st-century transferable professional skills3 for achieving sustainable livelihoods. The methodology is expressly designed to maximize accessibility for most vulnerable adolescents and youth. Moreover, by cultivating the capacities of adolescents and youth to act as partners in development, the model contributes to the advancement of social innovation and social entrepreneurship ecosystems; moreover, by leveraging youth and adolescent’s energy and passion, creativity, and first-hand knowledge of community challenges, the programme effects on impact on the community.

ModelUPSHIFT’s content reflects best practices from the business, design, product and service design and development, and social sectors, while its delivery is based on best practices from non-formal education, experiential learning, and business education. UPSHIFT consists of:

1. High-reach, low-touch introductory training sessions in the use of ethnography for understanding communities and community challenges;

2. Participant-led market and user research and observation; 3. Intensive training and mentorship in the use of a variety of methods4 to

a. synthesize their findings and define the problem, b. define and characterize users and stakeholders, c. ideate and model user-centred solutions, d. prototype key components of their solution, e. determine success metrics, f. analyse budget requirements, and g. develop compelling communications to “pitch” their solution

4. Resources and intensive mentorship5 for the implementation of select solutions; 5. Training in financial management, reporting, and other business processes; 6. Training in methods6 for business strategy development and business modelling; 7. Network building.

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ImpactIn Kosovo, UPSHIFT has achieved capacity development of more than 3,000 youth and adolescent beneficiaries, with intensive, multi-month learning experiences delivered to nearly 600 beneficiaries (52% girls and women). Participant evaluation demonstrates professional competence, attractiveness to employers, confidence and empowerment, and community orientation. Participants have initiated 175 youth-led ventures, reaching more than 180,000 beneficiaries with products and/or services. More than 60% of projects receive support from public institutions or other investors; more than 90% of projects continue past the 3-month period of support anticipated in the model. Though not an explicit objective of the model, 20% of projects generated revenue, while nearly 40% of youth-led ventures consisted of multi-ethnic teams.

ScaleIn December 2015, UNICEF Viet Nam deployed UPSHIFT; in March of 2016, UNICEF Montenegro implemented their first iteration of UPSHIFT as the cornerstone of the Kreaktivacija Youth Innovation Lab. In May of 2016, UNICEF Nicaragua, UNICEF Lebanon, and UNICEF Jordan began the process of localizing UPSHIFT for deployment in their respective offices.

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footnotes1 UPSHIFT was developed by Innovations Lab Kosovo in consultation with colleagues from Laundromat Design, University College London/Goldsmiths, Bethnal Green Ventures, Frog Design, the New School, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Co-Design Research Center, UNDP, Peer Educators Network, UNICEF Office of Innovation, and UNICEF Country Offices including Kyrgyzstan, Montenegro, Viet Nam, and Lebanon. 2 UPSHIFT is grounded in the 7 Cs resilience framework advanced by Ginsburg of University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; these include: competence, confidence, connection, control, character, contribution, and coping. 3 Transferable skills are this skills applicable across skill sectors and industries. UPSHIFT is grounded in O’Neil’s workforce readiness and Lominger’s professional competencies frameworks. 4 Adapted from human-centred and user-centred design and design thinking approaches, Six Sigma, and SCRUM 5 Up to EUR 2,000 in seed funding, access to co-working space and a library of equipment, access to incubation services, and three months of intensive mentorship and support from a staff mentor. 6 Adapted from Lean Canvas and Business Model Toolkit methodologies



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