Case Study
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.
Author Archives: Development Impact and You
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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.
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DIY Toolkit now available in Arabic language
In partnership with the Mohammed Bin Rashid Centre for Government Innovation, we’ve translated both the DIY Toolkit full website and PDF.
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Poverty measurements that are useful to the poor
We talk to NGO Fundacion Paraguaya about their Poverty Stoplight tool, which helps families make sense and navigate their way out of poverty.
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Using human-centred design at DFID
The UK government department on how human-centred design can help development programmes to be more innovative and effective.
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Profiling the international development mutants
As part of a new series, we talk to Giulio Quaggiotto about the development ‘mutants’ – innovators working at the edge of the field.
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DIY toolkit now available in eight languages
We’re pleased to announce that the DIY website is available in two more languages – Russian and Mandarin – along with other new language PDFs.
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Navigating Indonesia’s data innovation ecosystem: A reflection
The UN’s Pulse Lab Jakarta looks back over its first five years of data explorations, and the growing data-for-good network in Indonesia.