Welcome to the UN Innovation Network

The UN Innovation Network (UNIN) is an informal, collaborative community of UN innovators from across the UN. In addition to promoting innovation overall, UNIN also hosts UN Groups on specific topics. UNIN is open to innovators from all UN Entities as well as external partners.

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November 14, 2024
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UNDC Digital Skills Learning Series | Digital Capacity Building for the UN 2.0 Agenda

Developing strong digital skills is key to building future-ready organisations, enabling us to navigate and make the most of new digital solutions and approaches. That's why we dedicated November to Digital Capacity Building

November 4, 2024

Digital Transformation Handbook For Primary Health Care - Optimizing Person-Centred Point Of Service Systems

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November 1, 2024

UN 2.0 Action Plan

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October 31, 2024

Emerging practices to improve access to and working conditions on digital labour platforms for refugees and host communities

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October 31, 2024

Anti-Scam Handbook

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November 14, 2024
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UNDC Digital Skills Learning Series | Digital Capacity Building for the UN 2.0 Agenda

Developing strong digital skills is key to building future-ready organisations, enabling us to navigate and make the most of new digital solutions and approaches. That's why we dedicated November to Digital Capacity Building

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October 17, 2024
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UNDC Global Digital Compact Learning Session

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October 15, 2024
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UNDC Digital Debrief | Key Digital Insights from the UN General Assembly and the Summit of the Future

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October 10, 2024
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Custom GPTs in Action

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September 24, 2024
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Digital Public Infrastructure for People and Planet

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November 4, 2024
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Digital Transformation Handbook For Primary Health Care - Optimizing Person-Centred Point Of Service Systems

This handbook guides countries from digitizing records to digitalization, paving the way for digital transformation and fundamentally reshaping health service delivery and access.

November 4, 2024
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November 1, 2024
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UN 2.0 Action Plan

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October 31, 2024
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Emerging practices to improve access to and working conditions on digital labour platforms for refugees and host communities

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October 31, 2024
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Anti-Scam Handbook

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October 30, 2024
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Going Digital For Noncommunicable Diseases: The Case For Action

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"Without innovation, there is no way we can overcome the challenges of our time." António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations

UN Groups

UNIN's UN Groups dive deeper into selected innovation areas to allow for deeper exchange in more specialised fields.

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February 17, 2022
Proof of Concept

Bike Ambulances to improve Emergency Obstetric Care in Rural Areas

Maternal mortality and morbidity rates remain high in Cote d’Ivoire. It is estimated that more than six women out of a thousand are dying while delivering birth, while 0.7% of the women of childbearing age have fistula in the country (MICS, 2016). While the strengthening of the health system is taking place, women in the country, especially in the rural area, stay vulnerable to the high risk of maternal death and morbidity. From behavioral perspectives, the barriers that leads to the three delays–(1) deciding to seek care; (2) identifying and reaching a medical facility; (3) receiving adequate and appropriate treatment may include the following (Cichowitz et al., 2018): Factors related to the first delay: social norms (community prefers to deliver at home), limited transportation and health care services at night, and negative experience in hospitals in the past (lack of trust). Factors related to the second delay of reaching a medical facility: a lack of available transportation, long travel times, and perception of high medical costs (walking 36.5%, car 34.6%, bus 13.5%, and motorcycle 13.5% in case of a study in Tanzania). In this context, this rapid prototyping initiative seeks to develop a new low-cost, safe transportation for women to prevent maternal mortality and morbidity in rural areas, by tackling the barriers that often lead to delay of emergency obstetric care (EmOC). It also aims to collect and utilize the GPS data/information of the bike ambulances to enable regional hospitals and the government to make better decisions in providing care, utilize hospital ambulances efficiently, and enhance communication between the care-seeker and care-provider.

About the UN Innovation Network

The UN Innovation Network (UNIN) is an informal, collaborative community of UN innovators interested in sharing their expertise and experience with others to promote and advance innovation within the UN System.

The Network hosts regular knowledge sharing sessions, helps Entities share tools, resources and best practices for innovating in the UN and offers advice on how to build structures to promote innovation, activate innovation partnerships and create a culture of innovation in their organisations.

UNIN is open to innovators from all UN Entities and to date, colleagues from over 70 entities in over 180 countries have joined the Network.

The UN Innovation Network is jointly chaired and funded by UNDP, UNICEF and WFP.

UNIN Organisational Members

UNIN Co-Chairs

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We encourage everyone interested in innovation - from all across the UN and beyond - to join the UN Innovation Network to collaborate, share experiences and innovate for the Sustainable Development Goals.

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