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How can Earth Observation and Artificial Intelligence help people in need?
Apply to the Earth Observation & Artificial Intelligence for SDGs Innovation Programme — a joint programme by the World Food Programme Innovation Accelerator and the European Space Agency Φ-lab
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Takachar
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Improve pandemic preparedness in the Digital Health Innovation Accelerator Program!
Do you have a digital innovation that can bolster pandemic preparedness and COVID-19 vaccination rollout in low- and middle-income countries?
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Around-the-clock communication fighting COVID-19: The 1212 call centre in the Central African Republic (CAR) that gets up to 3,000 calls a week
When COVID-19 resurged in CAR in early 2021, causing a 44 percent rise in deaths, the World Food Programme-led Emergency Tele
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Championing innovation and intrapreneurs in the World Food Programme
A closer look at the first ever WFP Innovation Champions 2021 Global Event
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Five tips for establishing a virtual community
Thinking of establishing a virtual community? Here are some tips from our experience with the WFP Innovations Champions Community
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School Connect
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SHAPES
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Digital Health Innovation Accelerator Programme
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Rapid Response Connectivity Carrier (R2C2)
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HungerMap LIVE
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Meza
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plugPAY
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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