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Seeking ministerial approval
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Humanitarian Innovation
Partnership adjustments
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Identifying the Need – Crisis Content in Swahili and Somali
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MEDBOX kicks off
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An update from the software developer…
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Almost fit for service
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Setting the Foundations
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Partnering to help recovery from the trauma of violence
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Humanitarian Innovation
RAM-OP: first field test completed in Addis Ababa
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How useful have the emergency wheelchairs been?
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Humanitarian Innovation
Starting Work on the Humanitarian Exchange Language Initiative
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Humanitarian Innovation
Children at a hand pump built by Save the Children providing clean drinking water to the local village. L-R Madina (three), Sindayo Yahya (two years, six months), Halima (four), Biru (red headscarf two years, six months), Ali (green T shirt-, seven) Save the Children began Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) projects in the Afar region of Ethiopia following an earthquake in 2009. In Afar, the WASH teams help people through providing trucked water, constructing latrines in schools and promoting better hygiene practices. Where the need is greatest, Save the Children provides water, by truck, for free. The focus is always to try to develop a sustainable, permanent water supply.
Testing time for partners and country programmes
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Humanitarian Innovation
What's happening on Knowledge Point
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Humanitarian Innovation
Solar phone charging station at Mugunga III camp, Goma, DRC. (credit: Claude Mukata/WFP)Phone charging in action… (credit: Jean-Marie Kaseku/WFP)
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Humanitarian Innovation
Learning from our Partners: Words of Relief Gathers Knowledge to Ensure Best Results
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Humanitarian Innovation
How does Cognitive Processing Therapy work in the DRC?
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Humanitarian Innovation
Participants posing for a picture after the last SH+ sessionFacilitator demonstrating to an attentive group how difficult thoughts and feelings can feel overwhelming sometimes. This was during session 5, where participants were learning to make room for difficult thoughts and feelings.Facilitator and translator working together to go through an exercise with their group
ZAK’s growth
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Humanitarian Innovation
More visibility‚ more enquiries
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Humanitarian Innovation
More visibility‚ more enquiries
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Humanitarian Innovation
Introducing Zak (“Zootechnical Analysis Kit”)
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Humanitarian Innovation
Innovative therapy helps survivors of sexual violence in the DRC
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Humanitarian Innovation
Iterations‚ iterations‚ iterations… continued…
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Using LQAS to monitor performance of health services in refugee camps‚ Yida‚ Unity State‚ South Sudan
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...And we're live!
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Humanitarian Innovation
Getting emergency wheelchairs out there – thoughts from the Philippines
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Humanitarian Innovation
Words of Relief takes flight: Pilot of translation crisis relief network begins
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Humanitarian Innovation
Hepatitis E Virus grows and multiplies in vitro!
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Humanitarian Innovation
Health Systems & Services
COVID-19
Artificial intelligence and emerging technologies
Non-communicable diseases (NCD)
Mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS)
Undernutrition and food insecurity
Inclusion of people with disabilities and older people
Locally-led innovation
Scaling innovation
Gender-based violence (GBV)
Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH)

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