Projects | WFP Innovation

Scale-Up Enablement Programme

The Scale-Up Enablement Programme supports advanced stage innovations which have already proven their project concepts within WFP field operations, and are working to optimize their impact and reach at regional or global levels.

Nilus

Solving last-mile supply chain challenges in food deserts

Solar 4 Resilience (S4R)

Solar-based technologies for building resilience and livelihoods of female smallholder farmers in India.

Sanku

Fortifying flour through a micronutrient dosifier

The WFP PHL Venture

Sustainable Post-Harvest Loss Management (PHL) business models to enhance food security and income for smallholder farmers

plugPAY

Enabling people to receive cash assistance through a one-stop shop

Srow and WFP staff member, Yangwasi Sakala, inspect a rain gauge provided by WFP. Photo: WFP/Andy Higgins

The R4 Rural Resilience Initiative

Building resilient food systems through R4’s integrated climate risk management approach

Sprint Programme

Our Sprint Programme is an intensive six-month acceleration programme that helps innovators and start-ups reach proof-of-concept and develop prototypes ready for implementation. Teams receive up to US$100,000 in funding, world-class mentors, and access to WFP’s global network of partners field operations.

SCOUT

Rethinking the global planning of the WFP Supply Chain, reducing the risk of shortfalls by crunching data and using advanced mathematics.

AquaPoro

Enhancing water access and resilience in refugee and host communities

Rescue Card/Zinli

Providing immediate WFP cash assistance in 72 hours

Route The Meals

Optimizing humanitarian supply chains for efficient delivery networks and routes

A brightly-colored storage container converted into a kitchen for delivering healthy school meals in El Salvador.

Kitchen In a Box

Promoting access to safe infrastructure for the preparation and delivery of nutritious school meals

Prisma

Women using charcoaled briquettes to cook. Charcoaled briquettes replace harmful wood-based charcoal and mitigate deforestation.

Sustainable Fuel for Cooking

Training communities to produce and market bio-briquettes: an affordable, improved, and safe alternative cooking fuel out of the abundant and invasive water hyacinth

Viamo Voice Companion

Gen-AI voice-based assistance for vulnerable communities

ECODASH

Giving our supply chain a greener future

Alumni

Alumni projects have completed their life cycle with the WFP Innovation Accelerator. Some have scaled-up or were rolled into WFP’s operations, while others may have gone their own way. All have had the chance to test their innovations in WFP’s field projects and gained valuable insights that will inform their future paths.