The Wanji Games platform uses basic telephony to provide interactive learning through spoken audio. This allows a geographically remote audience with limited literacy access to information in their own spoken language.
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Communications and Media, Other, Social and Behavior Change
Communications and Media, Other, Social and Behavior ChangeSEE LESS
HarvestPlus works to tackle hidden hunger, a lack of essential vitamins and minerals affecting 2 billion people globally, by breeding vitamins and minerals into everyday food crops using conventional breeding, a method called biofortification.
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Agriculture, Climate Change and Resilience, Nutrition and 3 moreSEE ALL
Agriculture, Climate Change and Resilience, Nutrition, Entrepreneurship, Gender, Public-Private PartnershipsSEE LESS
Uganda, Colombia, India, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Zambia, Rwanda, Brazil, Pakistan, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Guatemala, El Salvador, Bolivia, NicaraguaSEE LESS
The TempWatch is a novel, continuous temperature-monitoring bracelet which alerts if the newborn is hypothermic, thereby empowering the caretaker to warm the baby with KMC well before hypoxia, hypoglycemia, poor growth, or death can occur. In light to the Covid 19 crisis, Tempwatch is imensely instrumental as it warns parents against probable infections and reduces needless visits to the health centre.
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Maternal Newborn and Child Health, Medical Devices, Technology and 1 moreSEE ALL
Maternal Newborn and Child Health, Medical Devices, Technology, Primary CareSEE LESS
IMPLEMENTED IN
Cameroon, Benin, Papua New Guinea and 2 moreSEE ALL
Cameroon, Benin, Papua New Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, ZimbabweSEE LESS
A renewable energy company recycling biomass waste into biomass briquettes which are of high calorific value, economical, 100% eco-friendly for use by factories and institutions reducing carbon emission and deforestation.
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Biomass/BioFuel, Clean Cooking, Waste Management
Biomass/BioFuel, Clean Cooking, Waste ManagementSEE LESS
PEN equips Ghanaian STEM teachers to learn, design, and share hands-on activities which complement the national curriculum and are created from low-cost and locally available materials.
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Basic Education, Teacher Development and Training, Technology and 5 moreSEE ALL
Basic Education, Teacher Development and Training, Technology, Curriculum, Methods & Learning, Secondary Education, Workforce Development, YouthSEE LESS
Kitkit School, a winner of the Global Learning XPRIZE, is a proven tablet-based application that engages and empowers ALL children to master foundational literacy and numeracy skills, regardless of their abilities and circumstance.
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Education, Inclusive Education, Literacy and 5 moreSEE ALL
Education, Inclusive Education, Literacy, Basic Education, Digital Inclusion & Connectivity, Non-formal Education (OOS/ALP), Refugees, TechnologySEE LESS
Kitovu is a social enterprise that uses data to eliminate guesswork and supply chain inefficiencies in African agriculture so as to enable smallholder farmers to make more money off their farms.
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Agriculture, Data/Analytics, Supply Chains
Agriculture, Data/Analytics, Supply ChainsSEE LESS
Build platforms that opens new opportunities and create economic sustainability for poor rural smallholder farmers and families by integrating them to broader AgriFood system and connecting them to stakeholders who benefits mutually.
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Agriculture, Digital Inclusion & Connectivity, Economic Empowerment and 9 moreSEE ALL
Agriculture, Digital Inclusion & Connectivity, Economic Empowerment, Blockchain, Cultivation & Tools, Data Collection/Needs Assessments, Data/Analytics, Digital Development, Economic Growth and Trade, Food Safety and Standards, GIS/Mapping, Social & Micro FinanceSEE LESS
A social enterprise model for public toilets piloted in Nepal that incorporates additional revenue streams with waste-to-value technology (biogas), bundled services (shops), gender-inclusive design, & a cleaning compliance program.
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Biomass/BioFuel, Economic Empowerment, Waste Management and 5 moreSEE ALL
Biomass/BioFuel, Economic Empowerment, Waste Management, Biomass/BioFuel, Climate Change and Resilience, Gender Equity, Social & Micro Finance, Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)SEE LESS
We leverage the power of entertainment, the reach of mass media and the deep insights of kid-centered design to bring fun, localized edutainment to millions of kids in Africa.
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Cognitive Development, Communications and Media, Social Development and 3 moreSEE ALL
Cognitive Development, Communications and Media, Social Development, Basic Education, Education, Social and Behavior ChangeSEE LESS
The STI Forum 2021 Call for Innovations is initiated by the United Nations in collaboration with Global Innovation Exchange at Results for Development. The call will be open and accepting applications until Friday, March 26, 2021.