Building on the success of UNDP’s 2 years invention on policy advice and research (Financial Inclusion, Industrial Policy, social business pilots, one-stop youth centre), this “Building an Innovation Ecosystem for Youth Entrepreneurship in Timor-Leste” initiative combines a solution-oriented initiative with innovation and service delivery to transform Timorese young people particularly those who are unemployed and are economically inactive in to ‘change makers’ or social entrepreneurs creating jobs/livelihoods towards achieving economic transformation. UNDP’s solution could play a critical role in addressing growing needs, expectation while informing upstream
