Innovation Library

This first edition of the 2025 UN Innovation Update showcases how 31 UN entities are testing, scaling, and applying practical solutions across health, climate, education, humanitarian action, and more, to accelerate progress on the Sustainable Development Goals.

A 50 minute webinbar describing innovation CRM, data lake and predictive analytics for fundraising

This side event co-hosted by UNDCO, UN Joint SDG Fund, ESCAP, UNFCCC , and WFP features Artificial Intelligence approaches and tools and their impact. Examples included the Joint SDG Fund and UN DCO's AI assistant for the design of integrated approaches for beneficiaries, UNFCC's AI for climate negotiation solutions, WFP’s AI strategy and example global AI activities to address operational challenges, and ESCAP’s community-driven approach to promote inclusive AI innovation in Cambodia.

The side event explores how data can reveal trends, challenges, and opportunities in UN peacekeeping and special political missions, highlighting its role in enhancing coordination, transparency, and evidence-based decision-making.

Global Data Facility window and Support Program to Put Mobile Phone Data to Work

See how ITU puts the UN 2.0 vision into action - building capabilities, shifting mindsets, and rewiring the system for greater impact.

AI4All: Acceleration Program in UNGSC

A deep dive into feminist tech and AI innovations transforming the internet into a safe, inclusive lifeline for women and girls in crisis—bridging the gender digital divide through ethical, survivor-centered design.

UN Digital ID: Uniting the UN’s Global Culture

How can we harness behavioural science to promote refugee protection and challenge harmful narratives?

This session explores feminist foresight tools to challenge assumptions, amplify excluded voices, and drive bold, gender-equitable change.

UN 2.0 Side Event on Foresight: Future of Programming

Youth Foresight: Reimagining Decision-Making Spaces

A virtual UN 2.0 side event organized for exploring how IOM is using innovation, data, and youth leadership to operationalize anticipatory action in migration management.

This session spotlights the Connectivity for Refugees initiative and its partners advancing affordable and accessible connectivity for forcibly displaced people.

Showcase four AI prototypes developed in partnership to optimize real UN processes including: analyzing UN press releases, crisis reporting, SDG Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs), and service desk support.

Discover how UNOPS is transforming supplier engagement through data, digital tools, and behavioural insights. Learn how the DRiVE initiative helps scale sustainable procurement and supports supplier improvement across the UN system.

UN 2.0 Week Side Event on leveraging LLMs to extract strategic insights

DigitalAAP at UN 2.0 showcased AI-powered refugee feedback, turning real-time insights into faster humanitarian decisions.

A panel discussion with project leads, donors, and supporters of innovation.

oin the United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC) and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Economic Affairs (UN DESA) to explore what UN 2.0 capacity building looks like in the UN through freely available E-Learning, tools and case studies.

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.