Innovation Library

The Digital Villages Initiative aims to transform villages in Europe and Central Asia into hubs that are smarter, greener, and richly digitally connected and interconnected. The goal is to empower every village and rural community to utilize digital technologies to increase agricultural productivity and access to services, and uplift rural livelihoods by leveraging their local strengths.

Agro-Informatics connects information technology with the management, analysis and application of agricultural data to design more accurate and targeted agricultural interventions. The use of satellite imagery, remote sensing, and geographic information systems, enable the transformation of data into actionable information.

A daily healthy meal at school is transformative. Supported by WFP and technology from Nilus, schools can now place orders, verify product quality, and generate digital delivery records quickly. The participation of over 770 small farmers strengthens the rural economy and benefits more than 30,000 students each day, with expectations for continued growth.

SCOUT is a digital solution that automatically generates optimized global/regional-scale supply chain plans and strategic analyses for WFP's corporate inventory, supporting key decisions on what food to buy, where from, when, and how to store and deliver it to operations.

This session explores Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI)—an approach that has accelerated inclusive digital transformation in countries such as India, Brazil, and Estonia. Our speakers addressed what DPI is—and what it isn’t, the guiding principles shaping the UN’s vision for DPI and how to navigate the opportunities and challenges of DPI at scale.

With colleagues, partners and supporters, the WFP Innovation Accelerator achieved significant results in 2024 in deploying innovative solutions worldwide.

The Comprehensive Planning and Performance Assessment System (CPAS)

AI isn’t just the future—it’s here, and it’s ready to transform peacekeeping.

Unite Aware (UA) – Digital platform for managing situational awareness data in UN Peace Operations:

This session highlights the Digital Transformation of UN Peacekeeping, hosted by the Digital Enablement Team of the United Nations Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations (DPPA-DPO).

This guide is designed to inspire approaches for breaking down those silos by offering a multidisciplinary framework for more integrated, participatory and meaningful impact reporting.

The guide offers practical insights on creating flourishing communities in the UN system and beyond.

The Office of Innovation launched the Portfolio Sense-Making initiative to mainstream the concept of innovation portfolio management across FAO teams and Divisions/Offices at HQ, Regional and Country levels. Portfolio Sense-Making involves systematically analyzing and visualizing innovation projects and their key data to understand their interrelationships, strengths, areas for improvement and potential impacts, thereby facilitating informed decision-making and strategic alignment with Organizational goals.

The World Smart Cities Outlook 2024 provides a comprehensive analysis of the current state of people-centred smart city development globally. Serving as a foundational reference for drafting the International Guidelines on People-Centred Smart Cities, the report offers qualitative and quantitative insights into smart city trends, challenges and opportunities, including fresh data on regional variations, the digital divide, skills gaps and much more.

Building on the work of Challenge Works and UN-Habitat, this guide helps local government leaders and innovators apply challenge-driven innovation in cities. It offers a step-by-step approach, real-world examples, practical tips, and useful resources to tackle urban challenges using innovation.

The Innovation Strategy outlines the guiding principles of UNFPA’s innovation trajectory, reaffirming our commitment to being future-focused and fostering an environment where transformative ideas and solutions can thrive.

UNAIDS shared a scoping study on AI’s role in ending AIDS, mapping initiatives in HIV prevention and treatment. Examples include a PrEP chatbot in Brazil, telehealth HIV testing in South Africa, and machine learning for risk assessment and resource allocation.

Conditional On-Demand Assistance is a cutting-edge digital health solution that revolutionizes beneficiary case management and service delivery in health and nutrition programs. It improves data quality, efficiency, and scalability, leading to better outcomes for vulnerable populations.

UNFPA Uganda's DrugDash enhances pharmaceutical supply chain management by tracking drug supplies and consumption patterns. It generates user-friendly visualizations to support data-driven decision-making and accurate forecasting.