Innovation in UNICEF: April 2013
At UNICEF Innovation, we develop and support solutions that are transformative – at scale – for the world’s most vulnerable children. Where we are today UNICEF Innovation is supporting new […]
Category Archives: Innovation Labs
“We’re All U-Reporters Now” #uinnovate
A guest post by Lex Paulson A dusty youth-center basketball court. A Member of Parliament’s office. A wire-strewn nerve center in UNICEF headquarters. Three places which would be unlikely to host […]
Entrepreneurship & Micro-finance. Day 6 #uinnovate
This is my final post from the field on this mission to Burundi and Uganda. If you have just joined, our small team of innovation leads have spent the last […]
Burundi Lab co-Lead Alfred Talks About Tech (#uinnovate day 5)
I captured 45 seconds of Alfred Mukasa , Technology Specialist and co-Lead of UNICEF Burundi Innovation Lab giving a reaction to our visit to the feeding centre. Sorry that the sound is […]
“In a place this lush and green, how can people be malnourished?” (#uinnovate day 5, pt. 1)
We have been well briefed on the situation of children in Burundi (tl;dr: >50% under 18, >55% malnourished) on Day 3. Today we are driving in convoy to Gitega, with a […]
Burundi: 3% access to the electrical grid. 50%+ malnutrition. #uinnovation Day 4
we landed early this morning in Burundi. Everyone is tired at this point. We laughed a bit because, as Paul said, the airport looks exactly like the rebel base on […]
The “SMOOC” and the Digital Drum: Radical Innovations in Learning
Guest post by external blogger Lex Paulson 90%: the share of Uganda’s children enrolled in primary and secondary school. An encouraging number? Perhaps, but consider a few more. Average day-to-day school […]
No one can ignore a million people. Day 3 of #uinnovate Labs tour
Today was the third day of our Directors’ visit to the UNICEF Uganda innovation lab. Because it is a slightly more … meeting-oriented… day, I unfortunately have no photos of […]
“What your poo can do for you.” Day 2 of the Innovation Directors’ Lab Visit #uinnovate
Today started with entrepreneurs and ended with biogas toilets and an amazing dinner. In between we had original songs performed for us and I had to speak to 2,000 primary […]
#uinnovate UNICEF Uganda Innovation Labs Tour: Day 1
Today was awesome. We started off our #uinnovate tour of UNICEF’s Innovation Lab in Uganda with a briefing by Sharad Sapra on the state of the Uganda country office, problems […]
