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Academy
Identifying the increasing need of imparting knowledge, building skills and changing mindsets of Sri Lanka’s youth population, UNDP Sri Lanka established the HackaDev Learning and Skills Academy under its umbrella HackaDev programme to provide future-fit skills for young people of today.
Building on the success of its first flagship initiative the ‘Technopreneurship for Social Change’ initiative piloted in 2017 and implemented nationwide since 2018 that engaged more than 4000 youth from across the country, HackaDev Learning and Skills Academy was established in 2020 to offer a package of learning and skills offerings. Ranging from Entrepreneurship, Design Thinking, Innovation, Media Literacy, Leadership to Citizenship education youth skill building programmes are offered for regional level youth in the country.
The HackaDev Academy also acts as a body that convenes the public and private sectors and other youth organisations for meaningful engagement to provide a richer learning experience for the youth of Sri Lanka. By adopting this process and building a sustainable model around the programmes, together with financial, technical and in-kind support from the public and private partners the HackaDev Academy strives to build 21st century skills among young people in Sri Lanka.
Academy Programmes
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Technopreneurship for Social Change
Technopreneurship for Social Change was initiated as a partnership between UNDP Sri Lanka, National Youth Services Council, Cisco and Citi and has also currently partnered with the Vocational Training Authority of Sri Lanka and Youth Co:Lab.
The programme aims to build on national priorities placed on strengthening the entrepreneurship ecosystem with the use of technology skills among youth.
The programme intends to develop the entrepreneurial skills of young people by providing necessary skills including ICT. The programme enables young independent entrepreneurs to contribute towards the 2030 agenda for sustainable development by becoming technopreneurs. With the continuous support from its partners, the programme reaches thousands of young people island-wide and also acts as career guidance and a learning opportunity for the youth who will be seeking occupational opportunities in the immediate future.
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Engage to Disengage
Engage to Disengage (E2D) is a capacity-building programme on Critical Medial and Information Literacy for Youth in Sri Lanka which is developed by the HackaDev Academy of Learning and Skills under the partnership between UNESCO APCEIU and UNDP Sri Lanka.
The programme adopts a holistic intervention, considering every unit in the community such as the young individual, family, educational institute and society.
The programme enables discussions about current information and learning environments, required competencies to cope with the changing environments, theories on CMIL, understanding media information, tools to deconstruct fake news, rumours and conspiracy theories, ethical issues and engagement with media, Global Citizenship Education and strengthen their understanding on information and media literacy.
It promotes active teaching and learning methods involving learners and educators in the implementation, monitoring & evaluation stages of these programmes.
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Innovation for Social Change
Innovation for Social Change is an introduction to social innovation tailored for different youth groups. The programme uses accelerated and experiential learning methodologies to provide young people with a fundamental understanding of the design thinking process and its application in relation to social innovation and entrepreneurship.