Child Poverty Reduction Program

The Child Poverty Reduction Program provides members of target households with the economic opportunities and skills they need to meet their children's basic needs of health, nutrition, education, and protection. The program has three focus areas:

Successful transition of youth: improving young people’s skills to work in a decent job in the future
Supporting vulnerable families and children to meet their basic needs
Introducing small pilot projects and initiatives to improve household livelihoods and food security

Save the Children has organized the Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge every year since 2017 in cooperation with the Development Solutions NGO to increase the entrepreneurial skills of young people. It is the first competition to be held in English, and according to international standards.

The semi-finalists of the competition are enrolled in the Business Entrepreneurship Skills Program (BEST), which teaches teamwork, decision-making, business modeling, and business planning.

The three teams selected from the first National Young Entrepreneurship Challenge participated in the Global Young Entrepreneurship Challenge 2017, competing with 13 teams from Asia, Europe, and the Americas, writing a brand new business project in 12 hours and introducing a 3D model of their business product. It was the first time that Mongolian high school students had successfully participated in a global entrepreneurship competition. In 2019, the youth team that prepared for the Global Young Entrepreneurship Challenge in 2017 successfully competed with teams from more than 20 countries, including Canada, Japan, and Brazil, and was awarded 4th place. Save the Children is currently implementing a project called Entrepreneurship-focused socio-emotional skills for the most vulnerable youth in rural Mongolia.

Child Poverty Reduction Program

Our Project

Entrepreneurship-Focused Socio-Emotional Skills For The Most Vulnerable Youth In Rural Mongolia