Challenge Brief
The activities in this module capture your learning in a Challenge Brief containing a problem statement, an impact goal and design criteria for your solution.
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Scale
If you have evidence that your solution is addressing a widespread need, scaling its use and increasing its impact could significantly reduce human suffering in humanitarian crises. We define scale as...
Root Causes and Contributing Factors
This module provides tools and approaches to look beyond your problem’s symptoms to its causes and contributing factors. Tools and advice are provided to enable you to do this with both quick and rigorous approaches.
Starting Point Assessment
The activities in this module will guide in quickly gathering and categorising information about the problem you have identified, in order to expand and deepen your knowledge.
Initial Impressions
The activities in this module introduce a number of tools for identifying problems and opportunities, emphasising the need for opportunities to be matched with problems.
Pilot
The objective of the Pilot stage is to learn whether, and how, your innovation works in the real world, moving from controlled design and testing environments into complex humanitarian settings. In...
Invention
To invent something is to “create or design something that has not existed before” (Oxford Dictionary). Although invention is often associated with ‘lightbulb’ moments, it is more frequently the...
Adaptation
As explained in our More Than Just Luck report, innovations in the humanitarian sector generally come from either a new idea (Invention) or from identifying changes that are necessary to repurpose...
Search
When you’ve identified a problem, the first step is to acknowledge that someone else has probably confronted the same issue and a solution might already exist. However, efforts to find out whether...
Recognition
Recognition should be the first stage of any innovation journey. It broadly consists of identifying a problem or opportunity to respond to, collecting and assessing readily available knowledge on the...