Innovation Library

This report helps rural development practitioners and decision-makers working in rural digital transformation by highlighting the factors that lead to digital exclusion, providing evidence regarding how digital divides play out, and providing recommendations on how to improve digital inclusion for rural areas and marginalized groups.

In this webinar, UNICEF Nepal and the Office of Innovation, present the findings from evaluating a blockchain-based cash transfer piloted in Nepal in 2023.

The webinar is designed around the guidance for GenAI in education and research.

This paper outlines the UN System’s work on AI governance, focusing on current institutional models and related functions, and existing international normative frameworks in the UN system that could be applied or leveraged for international AI governance.

This strategy draws on the assessment of GenAI use cases in evaluation, and presents an implementation plan for GenAI-powered evaluation. It emphasizes a phased approach to digital transformation in evaluation, development of custom GenAI solutions for evaluation, and ensuring sustainability of GenAI-powered evaluation efforts.

This session provides a platform for Member States to delve into how stronger capabilities in data, digital, innovation, foresight and behavioural science can accelerate national priorities and progress.

This session dives deeper into the innovative and dynamic training available to help UN colleagues invest in their skills to advance the future of the United Nations.

Learn how experts are advancing these and other enablers to sustainably embed new skills and approaches in organisations.

Contribute to the upcoming General Assembly report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to education.

This session highlighted initiatives from UNDP, UNEP and the World Bank that are leveraging data, digital technologies and behavioural science to forge a path to a sustainable future.

This discussion will spotlight how connectivity, digital transformation and strategic foresight can be harnessed to re-envision how children learn.

This session delves into innovative approaches that can reshape how the world cultivates, conserves, and consumes food.

Join this discussion exploring how UN 2.0 capabilities can accelerate our collective journey towards gender equality.

“The Labs 2.0: Evolving into a global research and development capability for the SDGs,” highlights how the Network is accelerating action towards the SDGs and is harnessing the power of research and development (R&D) to push the boundaries of what is known and unknown about the biggest problems we face

This discussion spotlights initiatives from DPPA, ACLED, and country-level insights from the RCO in Kenya and the UN Verification Mission in Colombia, that leverage data, innovation, and foresight approaches to foster peacebuilding, conflict resolution, and diplomacy.

Hear from UN Secretary-General António Guterres and senior UN leaders as they lay out the vision for a modernized UN.

UNDP Accelerator Labs Network and Nesta’s Centre for Collective Intelligence Design launch "UNTAPPED: Collective Intelligence for Climate Action"

This session shed light on global work in evidence generation using randomised evaluations and how the UN can leverage and build upon it in its increasing application of behavioural science.

Explore how 40 Entities are leveraging new approaches and cutting-edge technologies in their work.

This toolkit aims to help WB task team leads and other practitioners apply behavioral science principles to identify factors influencing clean energy technology adoption and design effective solutions to overcome individual, social, and environmental barriers to adopting and sustaining clean energy solutions among low-income households and communities in developing countries

Briefing Note on Artificial Intelligence and the Humanitarian Sector by UN OCHA.

The webinar is designed around the guidance for GenAI in education and research with opening remarks by Tshilidzi Marwala and Stefania Giannini.

The WFP Innovation Accelerator Year in Review 2023 showcases the tangible impact of its efforts to source, support and scale innovations ending hunger and achieving the SDGs.

New research from UNICEF Innocenti and produced in partnership with the University of Sheffield, New York University, City University New York and the Queensland University of Technology explores the question: can video games contribute to the well-being of children and, if so, how?

WFP's first-ever global data strategy is rooted in the WFP I&T strategy and charts an ambitious course for the organization's use of data and emerging technologies to accelerate progress toward the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals.