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· School (if applicable)· Mentor (if applicable)

Story of a Reunion DinnerStudying abroadFriend 1:

Friend 4: On job but planning immigration

Jobless, ashamed of showing up Friend 2:

Friend 3: Stuck in poor law & order situation

Friend 5: Over worked at job

Undergraduate Classmates

Personal Experience of Unemployment Situation

• On 25th January 2013, five classmates planned a reunion dinner

• Only two could make it to the venue despite being in same city Karachi

• Their absence had a link with unemployment:

– Jobless friend 2 was ashamed of showing up

– Insecure feeling of friend 3 due to political instability abstained him

– Long job hours of friend 5 prevented him from reunion

• Even those who managed to meet were effected by unemployment:

– Irrelevant job market forced friend 1 to go abroad for higher studies

– Dissatisfied with situation friend 4 is seeking immigration elsewhere

Youth Unemployment in Pakistan• Poor literacy level leaves half youth population as unskilled worker or casual hawker

• General graduates have few options of employment due to limited economic diversity

• Engineering and business graduates face saturation in job market due to low industrial growth

• Brain drain of top talent due to poor economic conditions

• Political instability hampering investment and increasing unemployment which is further creating law & order issues

63% population under 25 years

53% youth literacy rate

21% youth Unemployment

The Solution - NPGI

Conceptual Map of “Our solution ABC”leading to self employment for youth

Ideas Product / Service

Self Employed Business

Business Students

Engineering Students

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NPGI – Background and

Business Students-Make business plans for

completing degree requirements

- Identify market opportunities for new

products or novel solutions

- Handle organizational affairs and management

Engineering Students- Make prototypes for

degree requirements - Design & build new

products or novel solutions

- Find new application of technologies

- Handle production and operation activities

NPGI - Details • Engineering project and Business Plan development for an idea through cross discipline collaboration

• Integration of two mandatory academic efforts to prepare and launch working business

• Generating self employment for graduating youth

• Employment of youth in support functions of resulting business

• Initiate voluntary integration by providing common platform to interested students

• Students find and agree to working on an idea

•Facilitate conversion into working business through involvement of experts

NPGI – Platform• Collaboration over internet and physically

• A platform will host ideas, interested groups, industry professionals

• Internet website will be launched inviting and indexing ideas for development

• Students can initiate requests to work on particular ideas based on their interests, geographic proximity and project requirements

NPGI – Deployment Plan • In 1 month - during pilot phase, few ideas will be posted for adoption by interested students based in educational institutes of Karachi city of Pakistan

• After 3 months - in next phase the platform will enable collaboration opportunities in other cities of Pakistan i.e. Lahore, Islamabad

• After 6 months - platform framework will be available for implementation in any other part of the world where both business and engineering students are present

• After 1 year – Based on successful outcomes, subsequently encourage adoption by relevant departments of educational institutes for deeper engagement of youth.

NPGI – Planned Outcomes • The team member will spend a maximum of 10 hours per week for one month to launch pilot phase, totaling 40 hours.

• Same 40 hours will be required for deployment of platform to other cities

• As a practical consideration, the success rate of launching and sustaining a business is considered to be 50%

• Each successfully launched business is projected to employ 20 young people at initial stage

• 25 successful business will employ total of 500 unemployed youth in first year

• In subsequent years the initiative is planned to facilitate 100 groups of students hence generating 50 new businesses employing 1000 youth at initial stage, theoretically.