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Innovation Day: Sparking Creativity at the UN
The UN’s Innovation Day encourages staff to embrace new ideas and methodologies, fostering creativity, diversity, and expansive networks for improved mandate delivery.
The UN’s Innovation Day encourages staff to embrace new ideas and methodologies, fostering creativity, diversity, and expansive networks for improved mandate delivery.
School Connect helps schools digitize data on attendance, consumption and stock inventory, to improve quality, planning and pipelines for school meals.
IOM is collaborating with fashion industry players to create menstrual pads from leftover fabric for Rohingya women in Cox’s Bazar camps.
Foresight labs use imagination for policy making in North Macedonia.
OHCHR’s incubator and annual innovation challenge for innovative approaches in their work.
UNWTO, through startup competitions and innovation challenges, fosters a network of entrepreneurs, institutions, and investors, leading to over $200 million in funding for startups and contributing to sustainable tourism development.
Focused on accelerating equitable access to digital learning solutions and building a community of changemakers. Powered by the Gov. of Finland, the Hub aims to help tackle the learning crisis and explore new pedagogies, tech and approaches.
An initiative to apply the science of thought and action, Brain and Behavioural Science, to foster peacemaking and preventive diplomacy.
Skopje’s public BioTech Laboratory is pioneering bio-waste management. It provides education and encourages entrepreneurial opportunities, reusing and repurposing bio-waste to address environmental challenges.
The Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub builds, accelerates and scales transformational climate-resilient solutions for an equitable and secure WASH future by sourcing, piloting and scaling frontier innovations to address challenges.
Thinkia is an open innovation lab fostering collaboration across sectors, facilitating collective problem-solving with a focus on social welfare, and aiming to drive development through shared resources and open data.
UNDP’s Signals Spotlight presents insights from the Future Trends and Signals System. It explores possible implications for future development trajectories.
Gabon pioneers digital learning in West and Central Africa, laying foundational digital infrastructure in primary education, testing online courses in nine pilot schools, and training over 500 students on digital tools.
FUT-Tourism bolsters tourism-focused MSMEs impacted by COVID-19, propelling digital transformation, gender equality, job creation, and economic diversification through a ‘Blue Economy for Green Islands’ model.
Oky mobile app (open source, free, inclusive) provides girls with information about their periods in fun, creative and positive ways. Oky is girl-centered and educates girls about MHH; it has reached 250,000 girls already.
NCD Lab uniquely utilizes crowdsourcing to gather innovative, equitable interventions, combining technology with multidisciplinary strategies to address the global noncommunicable disease epidemic.
The UNDP toolkit for entrepreneurship programming targeted at practitioners looking to complement their entrepreneurship policy and practice with behavioural approaches.
To mark the UN’s 75th anniversary, UN DPPA and DFI launched a project for designers to create artifacts envisioning sustainable peace. Submissions covered climate security, AI-facilitated peace ceremonies, citizen peacemakers, and more.
To address the midwife crisis of care, UNFPA has developed trainings for midwives on management of labour and complications using virtual reality clinical environments and simulations.
Using animal waste to produce clean energy (biogas) in Tongogara Refugee Camp and Waterfalls Transit Center, reducing reliance on charcoal and firewood.
A network for exchange and inspiration on change initiatives and fostering collaboration and innovation across the UN.
Cabo Verde and the UN launched ForesightSHIP, an exercise to shape the country’s 2022-2026 development plan and the 2023-2027 UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework.
The Extreme Lives project created short documentaries for at-risk youth in Asia. Using behavioral insights, the films aimed to change perceptions, boost self-control, and foster community connections.
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