The Innovation Lab: a new paradigm of partnering for impact in Together We Stand

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Monday, May 23, 2016

World Vision's Innovation Lab, is featured in Together We Stand published by United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) to coincide with the first World Humanitarian Summit. The book brings together the knowledge, experiences and expertise of organisations and individuals who are striving to find better ways to meet the needs of millions of people affected by conflicts and disasters in our rapidly changing world.

World Vision’s Innovation Lab for the Nepal Earthquake Response addressed three major challenges.

1. How to innovate with and for the benefit of the most vulnerable people in the world The Innovation Lab aimed to increase the role of the private sector, leveraging the capacity of innovative people and building the capacity of communities and emerging markets.

2. How to integrate the innovation capacity of the private sector with the expertise of NGOs and communities in Nepal The Innovation Lab offered a physical and virtual space to facilitate partnerships between a range of local and international actors, with individuals and organizations from an array of backgrounds and experiences working together to achieve success for recovering communities.

3. How to demonstrate to others that innovation can help communities build back better after catastrophe The Innovation Lab aimed to produce practical, useful, replicable and scalable solutions leading to greater investment in developing countries.

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