Join a Lab as an Impact Fellow

Join an ASG Co-Creation Lab as an Impact Fellow and contribute your expertise, networks, and field experience to real-world challenges.

Impact Fellows are not passive participants. They work with Labs on live problems, applied research, experiments, partnerships, and opportunities for scale.

Your Pathway

1. Explore → 2. Match → 3. Apply → 4. Join → 5. Contribute → 6. Learn → 7. Continue

1. Explore

Start with the challenges and fields that matter to you.

Explore the ASG Co-Creation Labs and identify where your experience, interests, or networks could contribute.

Choose a Lab

AI for Governance Lab
AI • Data • Government • Institutional Intelligence
https://ai4govlab.asianschoolofgovernance.com/

Zero Hunger Lab
Food • Nutrition • Agriculture • Hunger
https://www1.zerohungerlab.com/

City Futures Lab
Cities • Futures • Urban Systems • Local Governance
https://qc.cityfutureslab.com/

Blue Economy Lab
Oceans • Coasts • Fisheries • Coastal Communities
https://www1.blueeconomylab.com/

Forest Sustainability Lab
Forests • Communities • Biodiversity • Landscapes
Explore through the ASG Co-Creation Labs directory.

Affordable Housing Lab
Housing • Cities • Communities • Inclusion
https://affordablehousing.asianschoolofgovernance.com/

Social Finance Lab
Capital • Impact • Finance • Innovation
https://sflab.asianschoolofgovernance.com/

Financial Inclusion Lab
Finance • Access • Households • Enterprises
https://www.financialinclusionlab.asianschoolofgovernance.com/

Universal Health Care Lab
Health • Systems • Access • Governance
https://www1.uhclab.com/

Civic Media Lab
Media • Information • Citizens • Public Life
Explore through the ASG Co-Creation Labs directory.

Climate Action Labs
Climate • Adaptation • Resilience • Local Action
https://www.climateactionlabs.com/

Bamboo Impact Lab
Bamboo • Livelihoods • Climate • Enterprise
Explore through the ASG Co-Creation Labs directory.

ScaleUp Lab
Scale • Replication • Adaptation • Institutionalization
https://scaleuplab.asianschoolofgovernance.com/

You're done when: You have identified one or more Labs where you could make a meaningful contribution.

2. Match

Ask where your capabilities fit.

You may bring:

• technical expertise

• government experience

• research capability

• community relationships

• facilitation

• design skills

• financing experience

• entrepreneurship

• policy knowledge

• local knowledge

• data and AI skills

• university connections

• field implementation experience

You do not need to fit neatly into one Lab.

A Fellow working on solar irrigation, for example, might contribute across Zero Hunger Lab + Climate Action Labs + Social Finance Lab + AI for Governance Lab.

A Fellow working on coastal livelihoods might connect Blue Economy Lab + Climate Action Labs + Social Finance Lab.

A Fellow helping replicate a proven governance innovation could connect its thematic Lab with ScaleUp Lab.

Help me find a fit
[Ask ChatGPT] [Work with Claude] [Explore Labs] [See Current Opportunities]

You're done when: You can explain what you hope to contribute and what you hope to learn.

3. Apply

Submit a short expression of interest.

Include:

• your background

• areas of expertise

• country or geographic experience

• challenges you care about

• relevant projects or research

• preferred Lab or Labs

• availability

• how you might contribute

Where appropriate, include links to your work, publications, projects, or professional profile.

You're done when: The Lab has enough information to assess mutual fit.

4. Join

If matched, enter the Lab through a specific challenge, project, research initiative, experiment, or portfolio.

You might participate as a:

Research Fellow

Project Fellow

Innovation Fellow

Policy Fellow

Design Fellow

Country Fellow

ScaleUp Fellow

Practitioner Fellow

Your fellowship should connect to real work rather than simply membership in a network.

You're done when: You know what challenge you are contributing to, who you are working with, and what is expected.

5. Contribute

Work with the Lab on real problems.

Possible contributions include:

• applied research

• stakeholder engagement

• systems analysis

• prototyping

• field experiments

• policy development

• facilitation

• partnership development

• mentoring

• teaching

• documentation

• knowledge synthesis

• scale-up design

Use ASG's Paved Pathways to move the work forward:

[Start Research]

[Start a Design Project]

[Run a Project]

[Work With an Institutional Partner]

[Design ScaleUp With a Lab]

You're done when: Your contribution is creating value for the Lab and its partners.

6. Learn

Treat the fellowship as a two-way learning process.

Reflect on:

• What surprised you?

• What assumptions changed?

• What did you learn from other disciplines?

• What did you learn from communities and institutions?

• How did your own practice change?

• What new questions emerged?

Bring useful learning back into the Lab ecosystem.

You're done when: Your experience contributes to both your development and the Lab's collective knowledge.

7. Continue

Impact Fellowship participation can lead to longer-term collaboration.

You might:

Join another Lab initiative

Mentor new Fellows

Lead a project

Develop research

Teach or facilitate

Build a country collaboration

Start an institutional partnership

Help adapt an initiative to another context

Work with ScaleUp Lab

The objective is to build a growing network of people capable of repeatedly collaborating across disciplines, institutions, countries, and Labs.

You Can Work Across Labs

Impact Fellows do not have to stay inside one Lab.

A Fellow can enter through one challenge and discover connections across the ASG ecosystem.

Challenge → Lab → Project → Other Labs → New Collaborators → New Opportunities

This cross-Lab movement is part of the value of the fellowship.

The Impact Fellow Principle

Join through a challenge.

Contribute through real work.

Learn across boundaries.

Build relationships across the network.

Carry learning into the next challenge.

An Impact Fellowship should create more than a learning experience.

It should expand the capacity of both the Fellow and the ASG ecosystem to work on difficult problems.