Youth Social Venture Fund

The Youth Social Venture Fund is an initiative hosted by FPA India, under the IPPF Business Plan Solution 3, to support youth-led, scalable, technology-driven innovations to address contextual, broad-based, inclusive SRH issues of young people from different socio-economic backgrounds and vulnerable groups.

The goal of the Youth Social Venture Fund is to use technology to accelerate and enhance existing SRHR solutions and create new solutions to mitigate the problems in SRHR faced by young people in particular.

The Fund will provide an opportunity and an enabling environment to young entrepreneurs, start-ups, and technology innovators across the globe to create sustainable and scalable solutions. With the host MA situated in India, where entrepreneurship, creativity, technology solutions and development have been on the rise, FPA India can play a catalytic role in fostering innovation and enabling entrepreneurship scale globally. Specifically, FPA India will

• Work closely with MAs to do the necessary outreach for identifying young innovators with an idea or a prototype that can be developed further
• Train selected MAs to mentor the shortlisted young innovators
• Run a virtual immersion programme to incubate promising solutions