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Improving women smallholder farmers' resilience against natural disasters

Smallholder farmers are in the front line of being challenged by the impact of climate change. UN Women’s Buy From Women platform is designed to support the resilience of these farmers. They will now develop a disaster risk reduction tool to help the farmers cope with shocks.

The DIGNITI project: supporing fellow citizens

In 2019 the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) will in partnership with private sector develop a system to make it safe and easy for Cameroonians to support fellow citizens through cash transfers. 

Red Cross sparks development with blockchain community currencies

Vulnerable communities do not lack demand, or labour, or ideas. They lack a medium of exchange to deploy their underutilized resources and an ability to generate financial capital themselves. Red Cross' community inclusion currencies project will allow people affected by crises to effectively create their own local currencies to bootstrap development.

Scaling solar solutions in Ethiopia

There are many ongoing solar projects in humanitarian operations, but the sector experiences challenges in scaling successful solutions. Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is tackling these challenges through an innovative financing model.

About the Programme

The Humanitarian Innovation Programme grants funding and support to develop, test and scale new solutions that can contribute to better and more efficient humanitarian action. The program facilitates collaboration with private sector in innovation processes. The 2020 call for proposals is now closed.

Contact

The Humanitarian Innovation Programme team is located at Innovation Norway's head quarters in Oslo. We also work through Innovation Norway's abroad offices around the globe. We are happy to answer your questions, so do not hesitate to get in touch.

Tools and resources

On this page we will share practical tools and resources thay may help humanitarian organisations along the way in their efforts to innovate in partnership with the private sector. 

Humanitarian Innovation Programme

Tackling improvised explosive devices

Norwegian People’s Aid has identified the need for new tools and methods to tackle the growing threat from improvised explosive devices in urban areas.

Reforestation through cutting edge techniques

An important challenge related to the refugee situation in Sudan today, is the unsustainable demand on forest resources. To tackle this issue, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) partnered up with the social enterprise Land Life to implement cutting edge reforestation techniques.