Innovation Library

A guide for practitioners to run sensemaking within their organisation. Sensemaking helps organsations be more strategic, practice futures thinking and produce more impact from their programming.

In this publication, the FAO food safety foresight programme provides an overview of the major global drivers and trends by describing their food safety implications including climate change, changing consumer behaviour and preferences, new food sources and food production systems, technological advances, microbiome, circular economy, food fraud, among others.

The 2022 edition of Facts and Figures features estimates for key connectivity indicators for the world, global regions, and several country groupings.

This report summarises the discussions and work of members from the International Behavioural Insights and Policy Group, a working group which aims to strengthen the application of behavioural science through shared successes, challenges and overall learning.

This paper examines a series of behavioural interventions designed and tested in rural Ethiopia to try to improve hygiene-related behaviours and decrease the prevalence of trachoma.

This event highlighted examples of innovative initiatives using ICTs to protect oceans, overcome challenges and strengthen efforts to achieve SDG14 – Life below water.

This session highlighted innovative initiatives using ICTs for biodiversity conservation and how they can help overcome challenges and strengthen efforts to mobilize, create and drive solutions to achieve SDG 15.

The UN has embraced the application of behavioural science and issued Guidance to encourage its use as part of its wider transformation process to accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals.

This report provides step-by-step suggestions for practitioners looking to use behavioural sciences to address violent extremism.

The event explored the positive impact of digital technologies for wildlife protection, including satellite images, computer algorithms, the Internet of Things and the Cloud.

This Call to Action explores how you can leverage behavioural science in our work.

The Note provides an introductory understanding and supports advanced finetuning of using Strategic Foresight for Government Officials and others.

In 2013, the Health Assembly adopted resolution WHA66.24 on eHealth standardization and interoperability, which urged Member States “to consider developing … policies and legislative mechanisms linked to an overall national eHealth strategy”.

This practitioner’s guide helps policymakers in developing countries better formulate innovation policies by providing a rigorous typology of innovation policy instruments and the critical conditions in terms of institutional capabilities to successfully implement these.

This research project aims to provide a hands-on strategy including a scaling framework and toolkit for the Accelerator Labs to scale social innovation as they enter the next phase of their learning cycle.

The webinar discusses how the ongoing pandemic will shape the future of global production networks in the context of the fourth industrial revolution.

This episode considers use cases and applications of digital currency including central bank digital currency and the technologies behind them.

Preparing individuals, teams and organizations for the future - measuring and improving adaptability at scale.

The Secretary-General's "Roadmap for Digital Cooperation" on the impact of rapid technological change on the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and targets.

This webinar creates awareness about the global e-commerce landscape globally; why it is important for developing world and how it can help to attain the SDGs.

This webinar explores how supply chains are changing due to the disruptive forces of technology, sustainability and geopolitical risk; and how they are reacting to COVID-19.

This webinar explores how supply chains are changing due to the disruptive forces of technology, sustainability and geopolitical risk; and how they are reacting to COVID-19.

This TechLearnTalk explores Artificial Intelligence and how it can be used for the work of the UN with case studies from WFP and WHO.

This webinar addresses major elements and steps to consider when launching a digital transformation initiative within an organization.