WHERE HAS THE INNOVATION FACILITY INVESTED?

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SCALING UPEARLY STAGE

2015 Innovation Facility Initiatives

2014 Innovation Facility Initiatives taken up by partners in 2015

TESTING & EVIDENCE COLLECTION

Innovation Labs supported by the Facility in 2014 and 20152014 Innovation Facility Initiatives

AT A GLANCE: The UNDP Innovation Facility

2014 to 2015

70% of countries are crisis-affected, least developed, landlocked or small island developing states

WHAT IS THE UNDP INNOVATION FACILITY?

The UNDP Innovation Facility works through innovation champions. It offers technical support to the organisation and its collaborators across 170 countries and territories to explore new approaches to increasingly complex development challenges. The Facility:

WHAT HAS THE INNOVATION FACILITY INVESTED IN?

Innovation labs bring diverse actors together to

generate ideascreate prototypestest & scale solutions to development issues

Over 1 in 2 initiatives funded in 2014 were taken up in 2015 in partnership with the government, private sector and civil society as a first step to scale

3 in 4 countries that received funding from the Innovation Facility to date, invested in an additional 109 initiatives that tested innovative approaches to development in 2015

7 hosted by UNDP Country Offices in partnership with the private sector and academia

6 co-hosted with Governments

across all 5 regions in 2014 and 2015 to shape the next generation of public services

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13 INNOVATION LABS

Scans the Horizon for new ways to

address development challenges

Awards Seed Fundingto initiatives that test or scale innovations

3 4Fosters Networks of Innovation Champions for knowledge sharing

Creates New Normswithin UNDP to shift away from business

as usual

2014 53 initiatives 54 countries

2015 62 initiatives 45 countries

testing 14 approaches | across 16 SDGsIncluding New & Emerging Data | Behavioral Insights | Foresight |

Innovation Labs | Games for Social Good | Micronarratives | Challenge Prizes | Real-Time Information Systems | Crowdfunding

To better deliver and monitor the SDGs: 1 in 2 initiatives across 26 countries leverage ICT for catalytic interventions

Innovation in Data

1 in 4 initiatives

These initiatives primarily address 6 SDGs from strengthening responsive institutions go enhancing crisis-preparedness and response:

Over 50% of the Innovation Facility’s portfolio is invested in Eradicating Poverty, Leaving No One Behind

Test news ways to tap into new and unconventional data sources to improve decision-making

14 countries

Real-Time Monitoring

1 in 10 initiatives

Use ICT to spot trends and monitor the SDGs

9 countries