First Social Innovation Camp in the Arab Region launched by UNDP

The “First Social Innovation Camp for Youth from the Arab Region” was held for three days on 13 to 15 June 2015 in Amman, Jordan. The main purpose was to provide a platform for young women and men to examine key development challenges facing the region and suggest innovative solutions to address them. The camp is the first event of its kind to be organized on a regional level by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

A total of 65 young women and men were selected out of more than 4,600 applications from across the Arab region. In the camp, participants joined from Egypt, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Djibouti, Somalia, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Yemen, Qatar, Kuwait, Libya, Tunisia, Sudan, Algeria, Bahrain, Iraq and Saudi Arabia.