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Nov 29, 2022

Pushing Boundaries: Exploring Informal Innovation and Entrepreneurship in South Africa

By Jeroen P.J. de Jong, Professor, Utrecht University This is a guest blog written by Dr. Jeroen P.J. de Jong (j.p.j.dejong@uu.nl), who is leading a groundbreaking research project to explore household innovation and informal entrepreneurship in South Africa. This is a collaborative effort and the result of a partnership between…

Household Innovation

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Pushing Boundaries: Exploring Informal Innovation and Entrepreneurship 
 in South Africa
Pushing Boundaries: Exploring Informal Innovation and Entrepreneurship 
 in South Africa
Household Innovation

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Aug 9, 2022

Three signals of change: how digitalization is changing what informality looks like

By Tayo Akinyemi, Bas Leurs and Gina Lucarelli, UNDP Accelerator Labs — In this blog, we share what the UNDP Accelerator Lab Network is learning about the relationship between digitalization and formalization. This continues our journey as a Network to surface practice-based insights about informality as we also test out new ways of surfacing knowledge. Why does the connection between digitalization and…

Informality

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Three signals of change: how digitalization is changing what informality looks like
Three signals of change: how digitalization is changing what informality looks like
Informality

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May 25, 2022

Get on Board: Learning from Informal Transportation in the Global South

By Julia Nebrija, Greg Lindsay and Eduardo Gustale They move millions, employ hundreds of thousands, and support the sizable informal sector in urban economies. They are informal, or entrepreneurial transit modes (think ojeks, tuktuks, jeepneys, matatus or collectivos). They are reliant on the market: people need to go places, and…

Undp Accelerator Labs

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Get on Board: Learning from Informal Transportation in the Global South
Get on Board: Learning from Informal Transportation in the Global South
Undp Accelerator Labs

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May 13, 2022

New and Unusual: A Fresh Perspective on Partnerships for Sustainable Development from the UNDP Accelerator Labs

By: Emily Anderson, Partnerships Advisor, UNDP Accelerator Labs A raven circles a verdant orchard where ripe, candy-colored apples, pears, and plums shine in the sun. …

Undp Accelerator Labs

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New and Unusual: A Fresh Perspective on Partnerships for Sustainable Development from the UNDP…
New and Unusual: A Fresh Perspective on Partnerships for Sustainable Development from the UNDP…
Undp Accelerator Labs

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Apr 11, 2022

Seeding collective solutions: working with grassroots communities to build better food systems for everyone

Author: Amy Bennett Contributors: Javeria Masood, Head of Solutions Mapping, UNDP Pakistan Accelerator Lab Mohseen Riaz Ud Dean, Head of Community Research and Ethnographic Solutions Mapping, UNDP Pacific Islands Accelerator Lab Gift Ntuli, Head of Experimentation, UNDP Zimbabwe Accelerator Lab Amina Omicevic, Head of Solutions Mapping, UNDP Bosnia and Herzegovina Accelerator Lab Marina Olcese, Head of…

Undp Accelerator Labs

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Seeding collective solutions: working with grassroots communities to build better food systems for…
Seeding collective solutions: working with grassroots communities to build better food systems for…
Undp Accelerator Labs

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Apr 11, 2022

Zooming in: A field inquiry to learn about differentiated practices for sustainable livestock farming in Ecuador

Author: Paulina Jiménez, Head of Solution Mapping, Ana M. Grijalva, Head of Exploration, both UNDP Accelerator Lab Ecuador, and Aymé Muzo, Independent Consultant for UNDP. The UNDP Ecuador Accelerator Lab, along with GIZ Ecuador, the GIZ Data Lab, and the University of Manchester, conducted a Data Powered Positive Deviance (DPPD)…

Sustainable Agriculture

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Zooming in: A field inquiry to learn about differentiated practices for sustainable livestock…
Zooming in: A field inquiry to learn about differentiated practices for sustainable livestock…
Sustainable Agriculture

11 min read


Apr 8, 2022

Identifying safe(r) public spaces for women in Mexico City. Part 2: From quantitative to qualitative analysis

By: Alejandra Cervantes, Technical Advisor, Agenda 2030 Initiative, GIZ Mexico; Daniela Torres, Technical Advisor, Agenda 2030 Initiative, GIZ Mexico; Gabriela Ríos, Head of Exploration, UNDP Mexico Accelerator Lab. In the first installment of this series, we recounted our initial steps in using the Data Powered Positive Deviance (DPPD) method to…

Undp

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Identifying safe(r) public spaces for women in Mexico City.
Identifying safe(r) public spaces for women in Mexico City.
Undp

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Mar 7, 2022

Digitalizing Informal Business: What Systems Mapping Reveals about Drivers and Effects

By Tayo Akinyemi This blog captures learning from the UNDP Accelerator Labs’ ongoing process of surfacing lesser-known insights about informality, with a focus on the drivers of digitalization within informal businesses. Digitalizing Informality: A Quick Recap Sensing and surfacing frontier knowledge about emerging challenges in development is at the core of what UNDP Accelerator Labs…

Undp Accelerator Labs

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Digitalizing Informal Business: What Systems Mapping Reveals about Drivers and Effects
Digitalizing Informal Business: What Systems Mapping Reveals about Drivers and Effects
Undp Accelerator Labs

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Nov 23, 2021

When informal markets go digital: emerging signals from our Lab network

By Angelica Gustilo Ong, Digital Content and Social Media Specialist, UNDP Accelerator Labs Digital technology is pervasively transforming all work sectors including the informal sector and with COVID-19, the world has been going digital at an accelerated pace. McKinsey’s Global survey recently suggested that “digital adoption has taken a quantum…

E Commerce Market

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When informal markets go digital: emerging signals from our Lab network
When informal markets go digital: emerging signals from our Lab network
E Commerce Market

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Nov 2, 2021

COVID-19: How We Tapped Into Local Innovation and the Maker Movement to Address the PPE Shortage

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…

Covid 19

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COVID-19: How We Tapped Into Local Innovation and the Maker Movement to Address the PPE Shortage
COVID-19: How We Tapped Into Local Innovation and the Maker Movement to Address the PPE Shortage
Covid 19

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