Co-creating a maternal health programme with local stakeholders in Congo
How UNFPA used several of the tools to identify challenges in the health system and come up with new ideas to tackle them.
Case Studies
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Exploring crowdfunding with NGOs to rethink social projects
How innovation expert Xose Ramil uses the DIY tools to help NGOs accelerate social change through crowdfunding.
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Pivoting our idea using the Business Model Canvas
Akshay and his colleagues at Amrutdhara shifted their approach and used the Business Model Canvas to structure new thinking.
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Playing with the Fast Idea Generator for gender equality and social inclusion
Using the tool with activists, researchers, government representatives and international donor staff in Indonesia to come up with fresh approaches.
DIY Learn
DIY Learn is a free online learning programme in partnership with The Open University. It includes ten bite sized modules from the toolkit.
The Book
DIY is now available in a limited print edition. It contains all the tools and their descriptions, case studies, further background reading, and references.
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Two methods for identifying local innovators
Hamburg’s Institute for Technology & Innovation Management discuss the practical approaches they’ve tested in Indonesia on flood resilience.
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Teaching skills to solve local community challenges
Introducing Twende, a centre in Tanzania that supports people to design and make their own technologies to solve local challenges.
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Innovating humanitarian response for refugees
We talk to the makers of KwikSense, a plug & play sensor platform that provides real-time temperature data of refugee enclosures.