Innovation Library

Read the co-chairs summary on the inaugural Global Dialogue on AI Governance.

This report exames technology-facilitated child sexual abuse and exploitation across 21 countries, drawing on children's testimonies and large-scale survey data.

Drawing on case studies from nine countries, this report examines how behavioral factors shape the effectiveness of plastic waste management systems, emphasizing that infrastructure alone is insufficient to improve outcomes.

CRAF’d finances the data, analytics and infrastructure that help partners anticipate risks, compare needs and direct resources where they are needed most. The Annual Report 2025 shows how pooled financing is strengthening the shared crisis data ecosystem behind earlier, faster and more targeted action.

This session spotlighted blockchain and distributed ledger technology initiatives from across the UN system, showcasing innovative solutions that support development, collaboration, transparency, and digital transformation.

The inaugural UN 2.0 Awards recognize UN system teams and initiatives that are achieving outstanding results through new ways of working and new solutions.

A practical conversation on what it takes for innovation to move beyond pilots and become lasting institutional change.

A forward-looking session on how digital systems can build trust, improve access and serve people in real-world contexts.

An open, audience-driven exchange on the realities of leading transformation across the UN system.

A candid opening conversation to take stock of where UN 2.0 is delivering change, where progress is uneven, and what needs to shift next.

The Preliminary Report of the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI: Evidence-based assessment of opportunities, risks and impacts of AI is a first-of-its-kind independent scientific assessment of the capabilities, emerging opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence. The Panel, composed of independent scientists and experts from all 5 UN regions, outlines trends in AI. Its central warning: current safeguards cannot keep pace with the growth of AI’s capabilities.

This special edition of the UN 2.0 Digital and Data Solutions Expo introduces the winners and select honorable mentions of the first UN 2.0 Award.

DEPTHS is a five-step applied behavioural science process that integrates behavioural design, human-centred design, and systems thinking to tackle real-world challenges.

UNICEF’s AI Strategy 2025–2030: AI for Every Child, sets out the roadmap to ensure AI works in the best interests of children everywhere. The strategy highlights how AI can strengthen programme impact, improve operational readiness, and ensure children’s rights, voices and safety shape Al governance.

Learning today demands more than access to information. It requires opportunities to engage, practice, and apply knowledge in realistic contexts. Yet one key challenge remains: creating safe environments where learners can experiment, make decisions, and learn from experience—without real-world consequences. To address this gap, the Learning Innovation Programme (LIP) launched a series of pilot projects in 2025 focused on the design and use of AI Avatars.

UNICEF Innovation's Impact Brief 2026 reflects what's possible through a shared commitment to deliver innovation impact for and with children and young people.

The Readiness Assessment Methodology (RAM) includes a range of quantitative and qualitative questions designed to gather information about different dimensions related to a country’s AI ecosystem, including the legal and regulatory, social and cultural, economic, scientific and educational, and technological and infrastructural dimensions.

The report Empowering small-scale farmers through digital innovation: Insights from the Near East and North Africa region examines how digital technologies can support productivity, resilience and inclusion among small-scale farmers across the Near East and North Africa.

Harnessing AI to more effectively and efficiently enhance protection and solutions for forcibly displaced and stateless people and to deliver improved, data-driven responses across humanitarian contexts – people-centred and guided by principles of safety and accountability.

"Where do you start when preparing a country for the AI era?" This is a question more governments and investors are asking. The World Bank Group's new handbook, Accelerating Artificial Intelligence Investment in Emerging Markets, offers exactly that: a practical roadmap for building an AI ecosystem from the ground up that drives growth and jobs.

UN Blockchain Talks #8 explored whether stablecoins can support financial inclusion at the last mile, using a scenario-based discussion centered on Mariama, a fictional character representing real users outside formal banking systems. Moderated by Ali Al-Zuhairi of UNDP Alternative Finance Lab, the session brought together Dr. Margie Cheesman, Stephanie Joseph, and Freedom Pigott to discuss stablecoins, remittances, cash-out mechanisms, compliance, local infrastructure, data privacy, and the practical conditions needed for digital payments to work safely and reliably in remote contexts.

The UN 2.0 Digital and Data Solutions Expo is your chance to see practical digital and data solutions in action, hear directly from the teams behind them, and connect with colleagues working on similar challenges across the UN system.

The Core Principles for Meaningful Youth Participation in Intergovernmental Processes and Across the Work of the United Nations is a guidance document developed under Action 37(d) of the Pact for the Future, designed to move youth engagement in UN processes beyond tokenism toward genuine inclusion. Co-created through broad consultations involving Member States, UN entities, young people, and youth organizations, the publication offers non-binding principles aimed at making youth participation more meaningful, representative, inclusive, and safe across the full scope of UN work.

Innovation experts discussed accelerating transformative results via strategic processes, community-centered design, and effective stakeholder engagement.