About WFP Innovation Network

Innovation at WFP is an organization-wide effort firmly rooted in local insights, recognizing that individuals closest to the challenges often hold the key to solving them. The WFP Innovation Accelerator functions as a global innovation unit of the organization, forging close collaborations with WFP country offices, business units and the broader WFP Innovation Network.

The WFP Innovation Network comprises diverse innovation teams strategically positioned across WFP’s regional offices and country offices that manage their own portfolio of localized innovative solutions. It enables and drives innovation, by activating WFP innovators, mainstreaming a culture of innovation & collaboration throughout the organization, by providing tailored services and by building the digital systems and facilitated exchanges to scale and maximize impact.

The WFP Innovation Network is a growing network of 20 WFP country offices with innovation teams or focal points, two regional Innovation Hubs and a diverse community of 500 WFP Innovation Champions from across 165 duty stations. 

 

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What We Do

The WFP Innovation Network teams plays a pivotal role in strengthening innovation and creating processes, programmes and projects to maximize impact from the bottom up. This includes integrating innovation into country strategic plans, strengthening local innovation ecosystems, positioning innovation as a core function at the country level so that it becomes a cross-cutting activity as well as improving the sourcing of innovations to better connect to the needs of country programme teams.

WFP Innovation Champions Community
The Innovation Champions Community is a community of practice and purpose which enables WFP colleagues across all divisions and regions to become agents of change, by participating in various innovation initiatives where they can build on their innovation confidence and vocabulary, collaborate with like-minded allies across the organization and become better equipped to assess and support innovation regardless of where they operate. The WFP Innovation Champions community convene on a regular basis to learn from each other, share knowledge, cross collaborate and contribute towards a modern, and agile culture of innovation.

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Innovation Hubs
Through its growing network of regional or country-based Innovation Hubs, WFP is increasing its ability to identify, nurture, pilot and scale innovative ideas in the world’s most strategic regions by identifying partners and actors to help end hunger.

Tanzania

WFP's first Country Office-based innovation hub, located in Dar el Salaam, Tanzania.

https://innovation.wfp.org/tanzania
Regional Hub for Eastern Africa

Regional Hub for Eastern Africa

WFP first Regional Innovation Hub for Eastern Africa, located in WFP's Regional Bureau in Nairobi, Kenya.

https://innovation.wfp.org/eastern-africa

Iraq

WFP Iraq's Country Office-based innovation hub is a key innovation office in MENA region and is located in Baghdad.

https://innovation.wfp.org/iraq
Girl eating a watermelon; Photo WFP/Lorena Peña

Latin America and the Caribbean

WFP's Regional Innovation Hub for Latin America and the Caribbean (HZero)

https://innovation.wfp.org/latin-america-and-caribbean
Kenya Country Office Innovation Unit

Kenya

The Kenya Country Office Innovation Unit facilitates new innovations' designs, piloting, and implementation, with a vision to curate and scale empowering, sustainable, and innovative solutions that accelerate the achievement of Zero Hunger for WFP Kenya and beyond.

https://innovation.wfp.org/kenya
Volunteer to Mentor Innovators

Do you share our passion for solving complex problems and have relevant experience supporting high impact-innovators, are you interested in supporting our sprint and acceleration programs? We are looking for volunteer mentors with diverse skills and experience in technology — mobile, GIS, artificial intelligence, big data, blockchain — product and service design, business strategy and operations, fundraising, entrepreneurship or intrapreneurship, humanitarian and development field operations, and more! 

Apply to join our global community of changemakers, and once we find a suitable match for your skills in one of our upcoming programs we will be in touch for a short interview.  We will also add you to our mailing list for future opportunities to volunteer. Thank you!

Become a Volunteer Innovation Mentor