The Organizational Development Section in OHR offers this hands-on in-person training to enhance your skills as an innovator. You will learn how to apply design thinking to improve a UN process by 10x.

This event brings together actors from all sectors to catalyze a broad partnership behind more and better funding for development data and statistics ahead of the United Nations World Data Forum 2020. 

In the area of supply chain management and logistics, blockchains could increase accuracy, traceability and transparency through data integrity, simplification, increased security, multi-use big data and guaranteed confidentiality. However, they can also present major challenges, both technical and non- technological.

The event will seek to further raise awareness of the risks and benefits of AI and robotics for a crime, terrorism and security perspective and contributing to fostering a coordinated international movement on the issue.

Across the board in IOs, we are seeing the creation of new structures, experimental programs, accelerators, informal volunteer labs and innovation units. But what is the best approach for our particular context and how do we answer the most pressing questions about organizing innovation?

The SDG Lab and UNECE invite you to an inter-agency roundtable on blockchain.

The workshop will include sessions on current space exploration cooperation mechanisms and potential future ones and space for women.

There is a lot of interest to learn more about how UN Entities have set-up and structured their Innovation Functions and their approach to supporting innovators from within and outside of their organisations.

We'd like to invite you to join us for a mini-webinar series as part of which WFP, UNHCR, UNDP and UNICEF will introduce their innovation functions and answer any questions you might have. This webinar will introduce UNICEF’s Office of Innovation.

The Secretary-General, President of the General Assembly, the Chairperson of the 63rd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, and UN Women’s Executive Director, among other eminent guests, will offer reflections on this year’s theme: Think equal, build smart, innovate for change

This event is jointly by organized by UNOG and the Missions of Canada, Jamaica and Switzerland and will include a Panel and Roundtable Discussion.

The conference aims at bringing Member States’ representatives and the United Nations together with top researchers, experts, practitioners, the private sector, civil society and other key actors to discuss the opportunities provided by Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain for sustainable development as well the challenges they might present to the implementation of the Agenda 2030.

In the first episode of this new webinar series, Azeem will unravel how technology has brought us to where we are today and how these learnings can be applied to the future of innovation. Why? To help us take notice of how each of us can work to create a more prosperous future for al

UNESCO, in partnership with its confirmed partners – the International Telecommunication Union and the Profuturo Foundation – will convene a special edition of Mobile Learning Week.

Research has found that intrapreneurship and bottom-up innovation have the potential to fundamentally transform the way IOs work, allowing them to achieve the SDGs in the digital age. However they struggle to inspire such behaviour and are lacking the structures to scale bottom-up ideas.

The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), in collaboration with Futbol Club Barcelona, presents the 1st UNWTO Sports Tourism Start-up Competition, an initiative committed to innovation and the promotion of entrepreneurship in sports.

There is a lot of interest to learn more about how UN Entities have set-up and structured their Innovation Functions and their approach to supporting innovators from within and outside of their organisations.

We'd like to invite you to join us for a mini-webinar series as part of which WFP, UNHCR, UNDP and UNICEF will introduce their innovation functions and answer any questions you might have. This webinar will introduce UNDP’s Innovation Team.

Join UNICEF Innovation Fund’s free online master class on February 20, 2019 at 9am EDT with Jennifer Petriglieri, Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD. An award winning researcher and teacher, Jennifer will tackle common myths associated with female leadership. Is it true that women lead differently to men? How can you play to your strengths in your leadership style?

in this first “Expand Horizon” Webinar, Azeem Azhar will provide context to the innovation work happening today, showing how innovation is accelerating and where the future is taking us. Ultimately the talk is aimed at empowering people to take the opportunities that exist in front of us by understanding how the history of innovation has lead us to this point using practical examples. The aim is to show the responsibility we have as innovators and the change we can make by taking the leap into entrepreneurship.

But with hunger on the rise, we need to come up with bold, new solutions💥. Watch live as budding entrepreneurs pitch their bright ideas at the WFP Innovation Accelerator.

To kick off our knowledge sharing series “Innovations 4 Scale” we are joined by UN Global Pulse's Pulse Lab Jakarta, who will introduce the VAMPIRE platform.

This 8-week course on Environmental Security and Sustaining Peace provides an in-depth introduction to the multiple roles that natural resources and the environment play in the onset, escalation, and resolution of, and recovery from, violent conflicts. Many of the considerations and approaches in this course are also relevant to understanding and addressing social conflicts around natural resources and the environment.

What is the current work situation for young people in different parts of Africa? How is it influenced by the changing nature of work? Considering this, how can Africa harness the potential of its youth today and in future? To better understand these questions and the extent of tomorrow’s opportunities and challenges, and to guide future actions, SDC and ILO join forces to organize the Future of Work for African Youth Conference in Geneva, with an interactive livestream for global audiences.

There is a lot of interest to learn more about how UN Entities have set-up and structured their Innovation Functions and their approach to supporting innovators from within and outside of their organisations.

We'd like to invite you to join us for a mini-webinar series as part of which WFP, UNHCR, UNDP and UNICEF will introduce their innovation functions and answer any questions you might have. This webinar will introduce UNHCR's Innovation Service.

As part of UNDP’s global project, Ending Gender-based Violence and Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, participatory GBV local action plans are being piloted in several settings. The UNU-IIGH team is leading a piece of research and policy translation on the costs, value for money and financing of these local plans in 5 countries

The UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation Secretariat hosts Virtual Town Halls on every first Monday of the month to share updates from the past month, an overview of upcoming activities, and provide an open forum for questions and discussion.

Leaders at the forefront of business and investment will share how emerging funding models, from corporate funds to crowdfunded pitch competitions, are increasing capital availability for women entrepreneurs and how concretely they can access capital. Practical examples will be showcased.

Together with private and public companies as well as NGOs and the philanthropic community, the luncheon will pave the way towards collaboration and agenda setting towards more agile and effective SDG led innovation in International Organizations.

Join UNICEF Innovation Fund’s first free online master class on January 23, 2019 at 9am EDT with Alisee de Tonnac, CEO of Seedstars. Why is investing in female-led companies smart? What do investors look for in a company? How can you best position yourself to access early investments?