By Amy Bennett, Amadou Sow and Erika Antoine from the UNDP Accelerator Labs global team

Personal.

Protective.

Equipment.

How could we have known pre-pandemic that we would become so familiar with the acronym, PPE? How could we have imagined that we would regularly place a piece of cloth or a…

By Hasan Darwish, Head of Experimentation, UNDP Syria Accelerator Lab, Oksana Udovyk, Head of Experimentation, UNDP Ukraine Accelerator Lab, and Martin Zelinka, United Nations Volunteer, UNDP Ukraine

Three languages, two countries, one challenge — to find solutions that further the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through inspiration from nature through the…

By: Amory Gonzalez, Kavita Seshan, Pouria Arasti, David Bernstein, and Dinar Ayu Adeline LSE Capstone Project Group

As a group of five Master of Public Administration candidates from LSE, the London School of Economics and Political Science, we are excited and thrilled to have partnered with the UNDP Accelerator Labs…

By Gina Lucarelli, Team Leader, UNDP Accelerator Labs

“The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance — almost is the revelation of ignorance.” - Wendell Berry, writer and Kentucky Farmer quoted in Donella Meadows, Systems Thinking: A Primer

This quote blows my mind. It spoke to me when…

Reflections on the UNDP Accelerator Labs Explorers Global Summit 2020

By Benjamin Ong, Head of Exploration, UNDP Accelerator Lab Malaysia

In a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (commonly known as VUCA) world, the three ways of working that have shaped our global lab network — Heads of Solutions Mapping, Exploration…

Published by: Data Powered Positive Deviance DPPD
The following piece was written by our partners from the Data Powered Positive Deviance DPPD initiative and was published on June 9, 2021.

Written by: Ana M. Grijalva, Head of Exploration, UNDP Accelerator Lab Ecuador, Paulina Jiménez, Head of Solution Mapping, UNDP Accelerator…

By Mirko Ebelshaeuser, Innovation Programme Specialist, UNDP Accelerator Labs. Twitter: @MirkoEb

A little while ago Gina Lucarelli put out there what not many people in the development sector dare to say: the Sustainable Development Goals are off track. While confronting us with a rather grim testimony of recent events —…

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The following piece was written by our partners from the Data Powered Positive Deviance DPPD initiative and was published on April 12, 2021.

Written by: Hodan Abdullahi, Head of Exploration, UNDP Accelerator Lab Somalia, with Basma Albanna, Doctoral Researcher, University of Manchester,
and Esther…