Digital Khichuri Challenge · SURGE Bangladesh · UNDP · European Union
About DKC Digital Respect Fellowship
The DKC Digital Respect Fellowship 2026 is an eight-month youth leadership, innovation, and digital peacebuilding programme. A total of 8 teams, representing all 8 divisions of Bangladesh, will be finalized through a three-stage evaluation and receive the fellowship.
Teams can consist of 3 to 5 members. If a team has 5 members, 3 will participate as core Fellows in the bootcamp, while 2 will serve as reserve support members during campaign implementation.
The Digital Khichuri Challenge (DKC) is a youth-focused initiative implemented under the Partnerships for a More Tolerant, Inclusive Bangladesh (PTIB) project of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Since its inception, DKC has been working to empower young people through dialogue, discussion, creativity, and digital innovation, with a focus on promoting social cohesion, resilience, tolerance, and peaceful coexistence.
DKC brings together young leaders, innovators, and community-level stakeholders to identify existing challenges in digital spaces and develop youth-led creative solutions — while promoting positive and inclusive digital engagement and addressing online harms such as hate speech, misogyny, cyberbullying, and other forms of harmful online behaviour.
Five themes
Your team will work under one of five themes.
Create tools and campaigns that protect young people from cyberbullying, online harassment, and digital abuse — and build safer online communities.