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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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Imara Tech
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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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Tiny Totos
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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
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WFP’s COVID-19 Fast Track: Sourcing humanitarian innovation at speed and scale
The new face of hunger required us to innovate at speed and scale.
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From innovative finance to nutrition, eight innovation teams will be challenged to tackle world hunger and advance gender equality
Unintentionally, but providing a programme twist, the WFP Innovation Accelerator is hosting its 34th bootcamp in March, a month dedicated to women.
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No communications tower is too high for these women
For most people, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in the Central African Republic (CAR) conjures up images of a truck on its way to deliver food assistance to the coun
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Cockpit
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WFP once again amongst Fast Company’s most innovative!
The WFP Innovation Accelerator adds 2021’s Most Innovative Companies to its list of distinguished awards.
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Women in innovation lead change in WFP operations
On International Women’s Day, eight women working with the World Food Programme share their innovation journeys.
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Once upon an innovation: How to create compelling impact stories and drive change
In this global pandemic, what was already a challenging and risky endeavour for innovators, can feel even more so than ever before.
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Jordan
The WFP Jordan Innovation Hub aims to nurture the growing number of innovations and entrepreneurs in Jordan whose solutions tackle local food security issues.
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Retail in a Box
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Looking to local skies for answers
Empowering the local teams closest to a disaster is critical to emergency preparedness and response.
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Optimus
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MIT Solve joins the WFP Innovation bootcamp with solutions for maternal and newborn health
The WFP Innovation Accelerator is kicking off the 2021 innovation bootcamp season by delivering number 33 — 
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Innovative Jordan: WFP’s innovation hub is accelerating Jordanian startups
The WFP Jordan Innovation Hub launched in February 2020 to nurture the growing number of innovations and entrepreneurs in Jordan whose solutions tackle local food security issues.
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The Great Enablers: The Power of Choice
WFP is the largest humanitarian organization in the world fighting hunger.
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Coding with EMPACT: Tech training is empowering Syrian refugees and youth in Turkey
EMPACT is an innovation project of the World Food Programme that supports young people to start tech careers, bridging their way out of hunger and poverty to the future of work and self-reliance. A
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Going the distance: 5 effective steps for managing projects remotely while driving innovation
COVID-19 has left almost no workplace untouched — including the World Food Programme (WFP) Innovation Accelerator in Munich, Germany.
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The Great Enablers: The Latitude of Scale
WFP has always had a curious mind for the potential of innovation and technology to help fight hunger and positively impact the lives of the people it serves. Innovating to scale is in our DNA.