Galing Kabataan x Financial Inclusion Lab

The Financial Inclusion Lab is pleased to partner with the Galing Kabataan initiative of Galing Pook Foundation and UNICEF.

This initiative has the following objectives:

1.accelerate youth-driven innovations that advance financial inclusion

2.connect youth innovators with stakeholders in the community through a shared platform

3.help create new institutional arrangements to increase financial inclusion in participating LGUs

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The Financial Inclusion Lab will offer a special recognition to the most innovative projects in financial inclusion from the three provinces and four selected cities participating in Galing Kabataan.

FAQs

Q. Who may participate?

A. Any team mobilized through the Galing Kabataan program in the seven LGUs.

Q. Who will select the provincial or city semi-finalists?

A. The selection committees will identify 3 semifinalists along with their judging processes.

Q. Who will select the top one projects across the 7 LGUs?

A. The Financial Inclusion Lab selection committee will select the sole winner of the P10,000 prize from among the semi-finalists?

Q. May the participating LGUs give recognition and/or prizes to their semifinalists for the Financial Inclusion Lab track?

A. Yes.

Q. Does this award recognize only startups?

A. No. We will recognize startups, governance innovations, or any other innovative project selected by the partner LGUs as their 3 semi-finalists.

Q. Will there be any guidance to innovation teams?

A.There will be a series of online discussions via Youtube, Facebook Live, and Facebook to help teams have a deeper understanding of the food security and child nutrition problems and possible approaches.