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WFP Innovation Accelerator launches critical collaboration with WFP Kenya Country Office
Alongside the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly, we sat down with Bernhard Kowatch, Head of the WFP Innovation Accelerator and Lauren Landis, Representative & Country Director
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Adopting innovative approaches to tackle Lebanon’s unprecedented challenges
The WFP Innovation Accelerator joins forces with the WFP Lebanon Country Office to establish a groundbreaking grant to save businesses and strengthen the future of Lebanon’s food systems.
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Meet Baraah: A Syrian refugee rebuilding her life and future in tech in Turkey
Baraah fled the conflict in Syria, eventually settling in Turkey and finding her future in tech.
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Humanitarian innovators strive to create a resilient, safe and inclusive food system
The World Food Programme (WFP) Innovation Accelerator is delivering its 38th Innovation Bootcamp with a focus on bold solutions that address the Sustainable Development Goal of Zero Hunger (SDG 2)
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The WFP PHL Venture
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Balancing the Equation: Innovating Algebra 1 education for Black, Latino and students experiencing poverty in the United States
We designed a unique programme for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenge. Working with a large cohort of education innovators, here’s what we learned.
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World Humanitarian Day 2021: Champions for Innovation
How World Food Programme humanitarians are leveraging innovative solutions to reach Zero Hunger. The World Food Programme (WFP) operates in more than 80 countries
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Fortifying Flour: How essential micronutrients are making their way into millions of meals in Eastern Africa
Sanku CEO Felix Brooks-church, who was recently awarded a Rolex Award for Enterprise, talks about setting up a sm
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WFP named Best Workplaces for Innovators 2021
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) is proud to announce that the WFP Innovation Accelerator has been named in FastCompany’s Best Workplaces for Innovators 2021!
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Advancing innovative solutions at the Accelerator’s first virtual Transition to Scale Up Programme
The WFP Innovation Accelerator tested out its first Virtual Transition to Scale Up Programme in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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Zero Hunger Sprint: Enabling Nigeria’s Innovators to put their ideas into action to end hunger
Empowering existing social innovators with additional resources to accelerate their ideas to eliminate hunger in Nigeria is our best chance to reach Zero Hunger by 2030.
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The SKAI isn’t the limit: How WFP uses satellite imagery and machine learning in emergencies
The WFP Innovation Accelerator partnered with Google Research to set up the SKAI platform to automati
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Innovation in food fortification
Digital tools are making a big impact on nutrition among COVID-vulnerable populations. 
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Propelling the future of humanitarian connectivity
A World Food Programme (WFP) pilot project is set to push internet access during emergencies to new heights thanks in part to drone technology.
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The 2021 WFP Innovation Challenge: Sparking new ideas to revisit food systems
New systemic approaches and innovative solutions are needed to put us on track toward a world free from hunger.
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Annapurti - GrainATM
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From life under conflict in Iraq, to new tech skills and connecting to the future of work
In the first in a series of stories from graduates of EMPACT — the World Food Programme innovation project connecting students at risk of hun
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The WFP-X Moonshot Toolkit
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Leading the change in security communications
On a sun-baked hill overlooking Kigali, Rwanda, workers from dozens of humanitarian agencies set up telecommunications repeaters side by side, dotting the drumlin with equipment.
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Let’s rethink food systems together: Apply to the WFP Innovation Challenge 2021!
We’ve launched the WFP Innovation Challenge 2021 in search of cutting-edge innovations to rethink our food systems. Do you have one?
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From idea to impact: WFP CODA’s humanitarian innovation journey
How can innovations emerge and grow within a large and complex humanitarian organization like WFP? CODA is WFP’s cloud-based technology t
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From indigenous knowledge to artificial intelligence: Solutions to fight food insecurity from the Latin American and Caribbean innovation ecosystem
The World Food Programme (WFP)’s innovation bootcamps focus on supporting bold solutions that address the Sustainable Development Goal of Zero Hunger (SDG 2) by 2030.
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The benefits of machine learning in emergencies from river DEEP to mountain SKAI
With six decades of innovation under its belt, the World Food Programme (WFP) has an eye for spotting emerging technologies that
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A triumphant year for the ETC despite layered crises
While the COVID-19 pandemic shook our way of life, it was not the only crisis the  Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC) had to deal with — it was just
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Academics wade into the DEEP end of emergency response
When disaster strikes, a single drone or satellite image can paint a thousand words but convey little about the individual lives turned upside down or the emergency response they need most.
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Minding the digital gender gap
On this 10th anniversary of Girls in ICT Day, Phyza Jameel, 
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Take humanitarian innovation impact to the max with market access strategy
Market access is a well-known challenge for innovators seeking to pilot their ideas in the real world.
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Decapolis
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Plugging into the sun of North-East Nigeria
Emergency Telecommunications Sector (ETS), led by the World Food Programme, draws on sustainable energy to keep humanitarians connected.
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Innovating for Women: Gender equality and food security
Innovations addressing gender inequality while targeting food security are our best chance to achieve Zero Hunger