WHERE HAS THE INNOVATION FACILITY INVESTED?
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SCALING UPEARLY STAGE
2015 Innovation Facility Initiatives
2014 Innovation Facility Initiatives taken up by partners in 2015
TESTING & EVIDENCE COLLECTION
Innovation Labs supported by the Facility in 2014 and 20152014 Innovation Facility Initiatives
AT A GLANCE: The UNDP Innovation Facility
2014 to 2015
70% of countries are crisis-affected, least developed, landlocked or small island developing states
WHAT IS THE UNDP INNOVATION FACILITY?
The UNDP Innovation Facility works through innovation champions. It offers technical support to the organisation and its collaborators across 170 countries and territories to explore new approaches to increasingly complex development challenges. The Facility:
WHAT HAS THE INNOVATION FACILITY INVESTED IN?
Innovation labs bring diverse actors together to
generate ideascreate prototypestest & scale solutions to development issues
Over 1 in 2 initiatives funded in 2014 were taken up in 2015 in partnership with the government, private sector and civil society as a first step to scale
3 in 4 countries that received funding from the Innovation Facility to date, invested in an additional 109 initiatives that tested innovative approaches to development in 2015
7 hosted by UNDP Country Offices in partnership with the private sector and academia
6 co-hosted with Governments
across all 5 regions in 2014 and 2015 to shape the next generation of public services
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13 INNOVATION LABS
Scans the Horizon for new ways to
address development challenges
Awards Seed Fundingto initiatives that test or scale innovations
3 4Fosters Networks of Innovation Champions for knowledge sharing
Creates New Normswithin UNDP to shift away from business
as usual
2014 53 initiatives 54 countries
2015 62 initiatives 45 countries
testing 14 approaches | across 16 SDGsIncluding New & Emerging Data | Behavioral Insights | Foresight |
Innovation Labs | Games for Social Good | Micronarratives | Challenge Prizes | Real-Time Information Systems | Crowdfunding
To better deliver and monitor the SDGs: 1 in 2 initiatives across 26 countries leverage ICT for catalytic interventions
Innovation in Data
1 in 4 initiatives
These initiatives primarily address 6 SDGs from strengthening responsive institutions go enhancing crisis-preparedness and response:
Over 50% of the Innovation Facility’s portfolio is invested in Eradicating Poverty, Leaving No One Behind
Test news ways to tap into new and unconventional data sources to improve decision-making
14 countries
Real-Time Monitoring
1 in 10 initiatives
Use ICT to spot trends and monitor the SDGs
9 countries