The document proposes a mandatory internship project in Bangladesh to address youth unemployment among recent graduates from the University of Dhaka's social science faculty. A survey found the main causes of unemployment were a mismatch between supply and demand in the labor market, lack of skills, and social perceptions of work. The proposed solution would place 1,000 unemployed graduates in 6-month internships per year through partnerships between government and universities, utilizing existing infrastructure at no added cost. The internships aim to give participants practical work experience, technical skills, and challenge cultural norms to better prepare youth for available jobs.

1. Putting the First Brick to Make
the Biggest Wall
Team Name: Development Solicitors
Country: Bangladesh
School: University of Dhaka

2. Experience
• Youth unemployment is a serious problem in
Bangladesh like most of the countries of the world,
but the features are somewhat different.
• The common factors of youth unemployment that
we have experienced are-
– Slow pace of job creation
– Lack of Skill
– Mismatch between supply and demand in the labor market
– Social Evaluation of work
– Type of Livelihood

3. Discover
• We have surveyed 100 fresh graduates of the
University of Dhaka who are struggling to get
into the job market.
• The survey results pointed out many reasons
behind youth unemployment among which
we picked two main reasons to work with.

4. Discover
Problem Tree
Youth
Unemployment
Effect
Social Evaluation of Mismatch Between
Work Demand and Supply
Practical
Cultural Emphasis on Irrelevance of Lack of
Perspectives family status education experience
Cause system
Gender sensitivity

5. Solution
• Launching a ‘Mandatory Internship project’ in
the public universities for students of Social
Science Faculty.
• The main purpose of our project will be to
produce skilled and experienced youth
according to the demand of the job market.
• The social evaluation of work will also be
challenged through the project.

6. Cont...
• Initially our target population will be 1000
unemployed fresh graduates from the faculty
of social science of the University of Dhaka.
• The rationale behind choosing this target
group is that presently there is no internship
program available for the students of social
science in Bangladesh.

7. Cont...
• We will execute this plan through creating a
collaboration between the government and
public universities.
• There will no extra cost in implementing this
project because the existing government
infrastructures will be utilized and
remuneration and production will be leveled.

8. Cont...
• The target populations will gain-
6 months work experience
Increase in technical skills
Practical relevance which will be useful both in
further studies and works.
Awareness and will be able to challenge social,
cultural and gender sensitive issues.

9. Solution Tree
Mandatory
Internship Program
Mismatch Between
Social Evaluation of Demand and Supply
Work challenged tackled
Practical
Cultural Emphasis on relevance of Experience
Perspectives family status education increased
addressed challenged system
increased
Gender sensitivity
addressed

10. Planned Results and Outcomes
• Our team will spend 90 hours on the solution
in a month
• We are expecting to reach 1000 young
unemployed people per year initially.
• We will engage 25 young people for the
purpose of this project