Innovation Library

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.

UNDP’s Me-Smile, a health care waste management system from Indonesia, uses IoT-enabled digital scales and QR code scanners for accurate tracking. It streamlines labelling, weighing, recording, and reporting, cutting hospital waste weighing time from 3 hours to 30 minutes while enhancing accuracy.

The Digital Health Spotlight begins with a deep dive into Digital Health, and its potential as an enabler of equitable, resilient, and efficient health systems.

By 2030, two-thirds of the global population will reside in cities, confronting both technological progress and inequality. The Smart-Inclusive Transition (SIT) leverages technology to ensure equitable access to urban services for all citizens, regardless of ability or status.

This publication presents a conceptual framework followed by a discussion of global evidence on the opportunities and risks of going digital, the contextual preconditions, and how digital pathways can be tailored to produce greater educational impact at scale for all.

This report evaluates Bhutan’s readiness to integrate Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies within its governmental frameworks.

RiseUp4Peace is an educational initiative of UNODC being spearheaded in collaboration with educator partners in India at the school level, aimed at promoting a culture of peace, lawfulness, inclusion and integrity in young minds.

Humanity faces intertwined challenges like climate change, geopolitical instability, and socioeconomic disparities, shaping children's well-being. Addressing these issues requires integrated, equitable solutions and informed policy choices. This study presents four scenarios modeling the long-term impact of technology, resources, and global cooperation on human development.

24/7 inter-agency booking services supporting humanitarian workers to deliver last mile aid.

UNifyHR revolutionizes HR Operations for 13 UN agencies by leveraging Generative AI.

Explore how 40 UN Entities are leveraging innovative thinking, technologies and new way of working in their work.

UNify HR is an AI-driven chatbot that streamlines HR policy inquiries across 13 UN organisations.

This Digital Skills Learning Session is dedicated to the question “How to design inclusive digital products and programmes”.

Developing strong digital skills is key to building future-ready organisations, enabling us to navigate and make the most of new digital solutions and approaches. That's why we dedicated November to Digital Capacity Building

This report provides an update on the state of climate science and the latest weather, climate, water and related environmental and social sciences for the future.

This handbook guides countries from digitizing records to digitalization, paving the way for digital transformation and fundamentally reshaping health service delivery and access.

This comprehensive action plan encourages UN entities and teams to adapt the actions to the current stage of their journey, setting ambitious targets for each step.