The Humanitarian Innovation Fund (HIF) has joined forces with InnoCentive’s Global Solver Community to create an innovation challenge: send them your best idea for a new, better way to contain or dispose of human waste during emergency response situations. The aim is to reduce health risks related to inadequate containment or decontamination. You could win US$15,000.
ALNAP’s latest Lessons Paper ‘Humanitarian action in drought-related emergencies’ has been translated into French, Spanish and Arabic.
The 17 key lessons for humanitarian agencies responding to droughts identified in the paper are of particular relevance for the response to the current crises in the Horn of Africa and the Sahel.
Thanks to everyone who came along (in person and online) last Friday to take part in the discussions with CaLP, Last Mile Mobile Solutions and ALNAP on three technologies currently being used in aid programming: electronic payment systems, the use of mobile phones for text and voice communication, and digital data gathering tools.