Youth Co:Lab is a United Nations Development Programme's (UNDP) Asia-Pacific Youth Entrepreneurship initiative to position young people front and center in order to solve the region's most pressing challenges.  Co-leads by Citi Foundation and UNDP Indonesia, this initiative aims to provide a platform for knowledge exchange for innovation and capacity development trainings for youth social entrepreneurs and start-ups.

Co-created in 2017 by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Citi Foundation, Youth Co:Lab aims to establish a common agenda for countries in the Asia-Pacific region to empower and invest in youth, so that they can  accel­erate the  implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through leadership,  social innovation and entre­preneurship. By developing young people's 21st century skills, and by catalyzing and sustaining youth-led startups and social enterprises across the region, Youth Co:Lab is positioning young people front and center in order to solve the region's most pressing challenges. In addition to supporting youth entrepreneurship, Youth Co:Lab also works closely with multiple stakeholders, including governments, civil society and the private sector, to strengthen the entrepreneurship ecosystem and to promote policies that will support and enable young people to take the lead in finding and developing new solutions for social and environmental problems in their communities

Inspired by the same spirit, Innovative Financing Lab, is developing number of financing instruments including impact accelerator that will mainly focus on entrepreneur-ship, accelerator, startup and social enterprise incubation. Acting as an incubator for start up and social enterprises led by youth, Youth Co:Lab plan to engaged youth preferably from East Indonesia that have interest in social innovation, entrepreneurship, and start-ups. Trained by The Local Enablers, Kemenpora, and Bekraf and others respective mentors, the graduates will be trained in 1 week  boot camp programme at Balikpapan on 8th-14th September 2019 and Demo Day on October 2019.