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The five winners of the 2019 WFP Innovation Awards were announced yesterday at the annual Global Management Meeting in London.
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Yasser, a Syrian refugee in Iraq recalls his journey from longing to study to becoming a web designer through WFP’s EMPACT scheme
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The World Food Programme (WFP) Innovation Accelerator was launched four years ago, building on WFP’s strong history of embracing innovation and technology to achieve Zero Hunger. Here is some of what we accomplished together in 2019.
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At a UN roundtable discussion, attendees got the chance to listen to the story of Yasser, a young Syrian refugee who fled Syria in 2011 due to the ongoing conflict, and is currently living in Iraq.
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The WFP Innovation Acccelerator and Creating Hope in Conflict: A Humanitarian Grand Challenge are collaborating to support 25 teams working on innovative solutions to save and improve the lives of
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From growing vegetables in the desert to digital training that allows refugees to continue working wherever they are living.
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This year’s WFP Innovation Challenge sourced 714 applications from 95 countries around the world.
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WFP Innovation and the Gates Foundation are partnering to bring 10 global teams to Tanzania for a high-intensity Innovation Bootcamp.
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55 innovators from around the world joined WFP in San Francisco to work alongside leading tech companies and experts.
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In the desert slums of Lima, Peru, where conditions are harsh and water scarce, Merly struggled to provide nutritious food to her children.
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When asked about the likelihood of achieving the UN's goal of ending world hunger by 2030, Kowatsch displayed the optimism characteristic of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs.
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The WFP Innovation Accelerator has launched the 2019 Innovation Challenge, inviting innovators from around the world to submit out-of-the-box proposal
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‘What I thought could be a solution for my own animals has become a solution for a whole community’
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As we enter the fourth year of the World Food Programme (WFP) Innovation Accelerator, we wanted to reflect on our most important key metric — impact.
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Staying at the forefront of technology to meet people’s needs
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WFP and UNFPA supported eight teams designing, prototyping and testing bold solutions to help accelerate universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights.
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The World Food Programme is using hydroponics to empower women and create a hunger-free world by 2030
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The Innovation Fund at UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, in collaboration with the World Food Programme’s Innovation Accelerator, is inviting innovators who can help address the challenge
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Experimenting with a new technology isn’t always easy, particularly within large organizations.
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South Sudanese refugee turned professional photographer inspires more refugees in Uganda through the World Food Programme (WFP) Storytellers project
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Bootcamp on water and sanitation promoted by six innovation leaders from 3 to 7 June 2019
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World Food Programme (WFP) teams up with XPRIZE to provide 2,700 children in Tanzania with education software as part of a US$15 million global competition
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Following more than 900 applications received from around the world, WFP's Innovation Accelerator, with the support of Cargill, has identified the 8 most promising teams from February's
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For the first time, innovators from 11 United Nations entities will come together to participate in the first Interagency Innovation Bootcamp, jointly hosted by the UN Innovation Network
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In Lebanon, women have regained hope and confidence at a digital skills training offered by the World Food Programme.
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WFP Senegal has developed the Nutrifami application to strengthen cooks' and canteen managers' capacities on healthy and nutritious food.
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In Tanzania, WFP set up its Innovation Unit in 2017 which has been instrumental in transforming WFP's operations and fosteri
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821 million. That’s the number of people going to bed hungry every day.