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  Creating Hope in Conflict: A Humanitarian Grand Challenge will be at this year’s Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Week (HNPW) in Geneva from May 6-10. We’ll be hosting two sessions alongside partners in the humanitarian innovation space, diving into innovation adoption and AI uptake in humanitarian action.  Both sessions will be live at The International Conference Centre Geneva (CICG) and remote on Zoom. Session 1: Increasing Innovation Adoption in the Sector: A Precursor to Scale, Sustainability and Systems-Level Change  Date: May 7th 2024 Time: 9:00-10:30 CET Locatio ..read more

Access to consistent, efficient, and affordable energy is a human right that, for billions of people, is hard to imagine living without. The global reality, however, reflects a jarring truth: 1 in 10 people do not have access to any electricity and over 33%–2.4 billion people–don’t have access to clean cooking solutions. 75% of people without electricity live in countries in Africa. Every International Women’s Day, we imagine a world where equity is the norm for marginalized genders in challenging global contexts. This international Women’s Day, we celebrate the innovations in our portfo ..read more

Case Studies from the Creating Hope in Conflict: A Humanitarian Grand Challenge Portfolio “…research found that if widely adopted, all three innovations can bring about product, process, or system-level changes in the humanitarian sector and increase the efficiency or cost-effectiveness of humanitarian assistance.” At Creating Hope in Conflict: A Humanitarian Grand Challenge’s six-year mark, we have grown to serve a collective of over seventy innovators and have gathered a wealth of knowledge alongside the innovators in our community. In our work, we prioritize supporting businesses and organi ..read more

Funds will be used to support early child development and education innovations in hard-to-reach communities impacted by emergencies ECD practitioner at a GROW with Educare Centre in South Africa   Toronto/Geneva, December 13, 2023 — The LEGO Foundation announced a USD $10M grant to Grand Challenges Canada to support Inclusive Learning in Crisis Settings, a new humanitarian grand challenge focused on supporting locally-led innovations for early childhood development and education in emergency settings. The announcement was made at the Global Refugee Forum in Geneva, Switzerla ..read more