The HLM3 Asia Pacific Youth Innovation Challenge is a great way to promote social innovation to address problems faced by children .The Challenge Handbook aims to help young people and aspiring changemakers understand and address critical challenges faced by children. It describes effective social innovation approaches and also introduces the three Challenge Themes. ( Challenge now is closed)

Sankalp Global Summit is one of the largest events in the world, connecting high-impact enterprises with key players across the value chain to help them reach scale.

The Venture, is a $1Million fund to empower extraordinary start-ups that use business to create positive change and a mission to inspire entrepreneurial thinkers to transform the world.

Development Impact & You is a toolkit with 30 tested tool on how to "how to invent, adopt or adapt ideas that can deliver better results". The toolkit was designed by NESTA, the British charity promoting social innovation in partnership with Quicksand and STBY with the support of Rockefeller Foundation.

Finally something really interesting is happening in the field of social innovation in Nepal. UNICEF and a consortium of partners came up with Idea Studio, a pitching competition for bold and novel ideas. Can it be a new beginning for development cooperation? http://www.ideastudionepal.com/