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Innovation in humanitarian settings is rarely straightforward. It happens in unpredictable contexts, within complex systems, and often without clear cause-and-effect. That’s why innovation is best seen as a process of continuous learning;...
UN OCHA’s Humanitarian eXchange Learning (HXL) is an information sharing standard that enables humanitarian agencies easily share spreadsheet datasets in emergency contexts. HXL has successfully scaled using an open source and highly...
In February 2019 the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and Palantir, a data analytics firm, announced a new partnership aimed at helping WFP use its data to streamline the delivery of food and cash-based assistance. However, their choice of Palantir...
Panzi and Make Music Matter’s Healing in Harmony project is pioneering the use of music therapy for survivors of sexual violence in conflict settings. Despite very positive results in humanitarian settings in DRC, using music-making as therapy...
The Humanitarian Innovation Fund’s Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) initiative was established in 2013. An initial Gap Analysis report identified a range of challenge areas in the humanitarian WASH sector suitable for innovation, based on...
The World Food Programme’s mobile Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping (mVAM) project uses mobile surveys to make real-time assessments of food insecurity possible in conflict zones. This is what the innovation process looked like for the mVAM...
In 1937 French rural populations did not have access to an affordable car suitable for French country roads and lifestyle. Citroen CEO Pierre Boulanger wanted to address this problem. He gave what at first glance seems to be a strange design...
The PlayPump is a merry-go-round which is connected to a water pump; as children play, water is pumped into a storage tank. However, early hype, including a significant pledge by the Clinton Global Initiative and trials by UNICEF, gave way to...
The success of Red R’s KnowledgePoint project was built on a strong foundation of research and collaboration exploring the challenges faced by emergency responders on the front line who frequently lacked access to quality, timely technical...