Unicef mada innovative programming_nov2011
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The document discusses innovation at UNICEF and provides examples from Madagascar. It defines innovation as "creative destruction" involving new products, processes, markets, sources of supply or organizations. UNICEF Innovation aims to empower youth and improve operations through low-tech hardware and open-source software. Case studies from Uganda, Malawi and Madagascar showcase social monitoring programs, early warning nutrition systems, and eco-friendly school construction innovated through public-private partnerships. A UNICEF Innovations Lab in Kosovo supports youth-led projects and designs solutions to data needs through mobile and social technologies. The goal is creative destruction and positive change through risk-taking to improve children's wellbeing.
Unicef mada innovative programming_nov2011
- 1. Innovating for Children – A Vision for Madagascar Stuart Campo, UNICEF Madagascar Conf.Malagasy.I-HUB 24 November 2011
- 2. Overview • “Innovation” as “Creative Destruction” • UNICEF Innovation • Case Studies from UNICEF Innovation • Kosovo Innovations Lab – A Model for Success
- 4. “Innovation” • Latin “innovatus”: “to renew or change” • Economist Joseph Shumpeter (1934): “carrying out of new combinations”: – The introduction of a new product – The introduction of a new process (method of production) – The opening of a new market – The opening of a new source of supply – The carrying out of a new organization of any industry, like the creation or breach of a monopoly position. • Innovation is characterized by “Creative Destruction”
- 5. Organization Product Process Innovation Market Source
- 6. • Mission: “Combining low-tech hardware with sophisticated open-source software, we explore novel ways to both empower young people and improve UNICEF's operations. We seek to connect youth who have access to information on the Internet to those who do not, through innovations in technology and program initiatives that are educational and inclusive. We also find ways to integrate appropriate technological systems into existing UNICEF working practices to augment and improve the effectiveness of our operations” • Key Questions: – "How to connect youth who are connected to those who are not?" – "How can the explosion of mobile phone users and networks change they way development work is done?" – "How can UNICEF use the power of ever growing social networks of youth to educate, inform and empower?” www.unicefinnovation.org
- 7. Current Vision • Our aim is to meet the unaddressed needs of children and their families in resource-limited settings and to deliver the right services, products and systems at the right price for the children and their families who need them most. • New ideas are important to UNICEF’s work and we aim to engage and partner with the right organisations and individuals from the public, private and academic sectors to supports us to co-create solutions through the delivery of user-driven innovations. • Our global network of innovation centres works to stimulate and facilitate the adoption of innovative approaches throughout UNICEF. www.unicefinnovation.org
- 9. Case Study: Uganda uReport—Social Monitoring and the Wisdom of the Crowd • Who: UNICEF, Scouts, Telecoms • What: SMS polling through network of social monitors trained and growing virally at grassroots level • How: uReport leaders trained, mobilized; regular polls; processing & publishing of data (see next slide) • Innovation: Process, market, source of production
- 11. Case Study: Malawi INFSSS—Integrated Nutrition and Food Security Surveillance System • Who: UNICEF, Zain, the Min. of Health of Malawi, NGO partners, and Health Surveillance Asst. • What: Early warning system for nutrition security • How: Two-way information flow via SMS through centralized RapidSMS server (see next slide) • Innovation: Product, process, new organization
- 13. Case Study: Madagascar Child- & Eco-Friendly School Construction • Who: UNICEF, Min. of Education, CISCOs, Communities • What: Schools constructed with ICEB made on-site and managed by communities. Eco-friendly outfitting. • How: UNICEF and partners train communities to manage all phases of fabrication and construction. Local materials identified for minimal cost and impact. • Innovation: Product, process, source of production
- 15. UNICEF Innovations Lab, Kosovo www.kosovoinnovations.org
- 17. By Youth for Youth At the Innovations Lab, By Youth For Youth Projects support Kosovo youth turn their innovative and impactful ideas into reality. The Lab will help youth transform ideas into actionable projects and implement them. For approved projects, we provide a small amount of funding; mentors help manage and implement projects; necessary equipment and office space for co-working is provided; connections to Kosovo institutions and to a community of young change-makers are supported! www.kosovoinnovations.org
- 18. Design Center The Innovations Lab Design Center designs and implements projects to serve data and information needs of UNICEF Kosovo, Kosovo’s institutions, and Kosovo’s youth and children. The Design Center leverages the recent advances in mobile, open source, and social technologies….We work with user-centered methodologies to develop solutions that focus on the needs and frustrations of the users, and work on problems identified directly by institutions working on behalf of youth and children in Kosovo. www.kosovoinnovations.org
- 19. Creative Destruction and Positive Change Innovation and Risk Taking Madagascar Innovations Lab Children and Youth – Improved Wellbeing, a Future they Want
- 20. Contact Details: Stuart Campo Innovative Programming Specialist UNICEF Madagascar scampo@unicef.org +261331541144