The Asian Changemakers Program is a transnational platform that equips civic innovators, students, educators, entrepreneurs, and local leaders to design and scale solutions for Asia’s toughest challenges—climate resilience, equitable education, public health, sustainable livelihoods, and good governance.
Asia has the world’s largest youth population and many of the most climate-exposed cities. Traditional top-down playbooks cannot keep pace with the scale of today’s crises.
The Asian Changemakers Program enables transnational collaboration, giving civic innovators the tools, knowledge, and networks to drive solutions that grow fast and replicate across borders.
City- and campus-based hubs where civic innovators co-create and test solutions within 90–180 days.
Tracks include: Climate Action, Education Futures, Health & Nutrition, Blue Economy, Social Finance, and Digital Governance.
Stackable micro-credentials
6-week Sprints
6-month Fellowships
Alumni coalitions for cross-border collaboration
Curricula, toolkits, datasets, and playbooks are openly licensed for adaptation and reuse, making replication and scaling easy.
A digital hub that connects civic innovators to mentors, funding, micro-tasks, and project templates. Built-in AI copilots support local adaptation, evidence synthesis, and rapid prototyping.
Direct Reach: Fellows, sprint teams, and labs deliver tangible benefits to communities.
Network Effect: Each lab publishes open playbooks that peers can replicate.
Policy Uptake: Successful models are adopted by municipal, provincial, and national governments.
Partnership Leverage: Universities, NGOs, companies, and city governments co-host and invest in program tracks.
By 2030: 500+ labs, 100,000 trained changemakers, 100 million lives improved.
By 2035: 1,500+ labs, 300,000 changemakers, 300 million lives improved.
By 2045: 3,000+ labs, 1 million changemakers, 1 billion lives impacted.
Civic Innovators – community leaders, advocates, and organizers driving change on the ground.
Students & Educators – shaping the next generation of problem-solvers.
Entrepreneurs & Founders – building ventures aligned with public good.
Local Leaders – public servants, NGOs, and policymakers advancing SDGs.
Partners – universities, funders, companies, and research labs investing in Asia’s future.
City Cooling Kits: Civic innovators piloted low-cost shade solutions, reducing urban heat stress.
Nutrition Navigator: SMS-based tool improved prenatal care attendance in rural areas.
Community Learning Pods: Civic-led tutoring raised reading scores in under-resourced schools.
Blue Economy Ventures: Women’s seaweed co-ops increased income and restored coastal habitats.