User:Ruby D-Brown/sandbox/Lockdown Economy

Lockdown Economy is a social-educational international initiative confounded in 2020 by Julia Skupchenko of Think Tank AlterContacts. The initiative is to help micro and small businesses as well as self-employed professionals to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic and reactivate the economy.

is a global non-profit grassroots socio-economic and educational initiative with the objective to help micro- and small- businesses and self-employed professionals to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic and reactivate the economy (1). It is organized by the Think Tank AlterContacts (I). The United Nations has recognized it as an Acceleration Action (2) for the Sustainable Development Goals.

Background
The Lockdown Economy facilitate interviews among micro and small businesses where they share their stories of how they survived during the global lockdown due to covid 19.The initiative also has an academic side where

The second part of the initiative is the Academy. The Lockdown Economy gives us unique educational materials and access to concrete cases which could be used along with Harvard, KPMG, McKinsey and other business cases. By integrating lessons from multiple countries on several continents, we provide a comprehensive overview of how one can proceed in entrepreneurship in the new world. Joined by our partner universities we are designing educational programs that are based on real case studies from the lockdown. We have the ambition to publish our online courses on EdX where millions of students worldwide will get access to them. We expect these materials to be distributed across various geographies, different levels of education and age groups.

Expected impactthey work with student who are volunteers, who are engaged in the initiative in other for them to acquire the needed skills for future jobs.

Funding
Funding of the initiative is supported by partners institutions like United Nations, Universities and the general public.[II]