Break the dominant logic
This activity will help you assess and reconsider the dominant logic of why certain ways of working are considered important in the sector.
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Identify trends
The exercises in this activity will help you explore trends in your context or in the wider humanitarian sector that could create problems or opportunities.
Understand users
The exercises in this activity will help you generate initial insights into the nature of the problem from the perspective of the user.
Observe the problem
This field-based activity will help you to generate, capture and describe first-hand observations about existing services or experiences from the perspective of the user (front end) or service provider (back end).
Methodology
The Humanitarian Innovation Guide builds on empirical research on the HIF innovation portfolio carried out in partnership with ALNAP (Obrecht and Warner, 2016), as well as our work on the Principles of Innovation Management (HIF, 2016). The...
About Elrha’s Humanitarian Innovation Fund
Elrha’s mission is to improve humanitarian outcomes through partnership, research and innovation. Our vision is a humanitarian system that is capable of innovating and adapting to meet the needs of today and tomorrow. Operational since 2011,...
Acknowledgements
The Humanitarian Innovation Guide was developed by Elrha’s Humanitarian Innovation Fund (HIF), with support from Gray Dot Catalyst. Gray Dot Catalyst was contracted to deliver the project, with Ian Gray (Gray Dot Catalyst) and Joseph Guay (The...
Humanitarian principles and standards
It is vital to keep in mind and manage the experimental nature that characterises humanitarian innovation efforts (Sandvik, Jacobsen and McDonald, 2017). In order to achieve this, any programme – whether it’s business as usual or the...
Disaster management cycle
When it comes to our humanitarian parameters, it is key to be able to articulate which of the stages of this cycle your innovation is aimed at (it may well be more than one stage). What stage is the problem you are seeking to address most...
Crisis-affected populations
We use the term crisis-affected populations to refer to the individuals, groups, and communities that are directly or indirectly affected by a humanitarian crisis. Crisis-affected populations are sometimes the target group for humanitarian...