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

Connecting producers directly with institutional buyers for improved food access

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

CODA

Simplified solutions for complex programmes

Learners from Woodlands B Primary School at Hydroponics Garden_WFP_PaulMboshyaJr

H2Grow

Growing food in impossible places

A farmer guides a group of oxen walking in a circle over a pile of harvested grain, threshing it by trampling. The scene is set in a rural Amhara region in Ethopia landscape with traditional thatched-roof huts in the background.

Integrated Risk and Post-Harvest Management

Integrating climate risk management and sustainable business models to increase smallholder farmers' livelihoods.

Sprint Programmes

WFP Innovation Accelerator sprint programmes are intensive acceleration programmes that supports innovators and start-ups in reaching proof-of-concept, launching pilots, testing business models and scaling to new modalities and locales. During sprints, innovations receive business and technical support and grant funding to implement a defined sprint project.

SCOUT

Rethinking WFP's global supply chain planning

AquaPoro

Enhancing water access and resilience in refugee and host communities

Rescue Card/Zinli

Providing immediate WFP cash assistance in 72 hours

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

Route The Meals

Optimizing delivery networks and routes for efficient humanitarian supply chains

Prisma

Viamo Voice Companion

Gen-AI voice-based assistance for vulnerable communities

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

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.

Toothpick Company Ltd. (The Toothpick Project)

Harnessing bio-herbicide technology to combat the most destructive weed infestation in Africa

WFP staff Pennias Mulauzi helping farmers weigh crops for the market WFP_Paul MboshyaJR

Farm to Market Alliance

Taking farmers from seed to market

Ignitia

AI powered hyper-local weather forecasts for smallholder farmers

DARTs

Smart assurance for efficient and accurate assistance

ShareTheMeal

The world's first app against hunger - Graduated Project

Takachar

Turning crop waste into fertilizer

Optimus

Data-driven insights to save lives

Annapurti - GrainATM

Strengthening India’s last-mile access to food