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

Since 2018, Creating Hope in Conflict: A Humanitarian Grand Challenge has provided proof of concept (Seed) and transition to scale (TTS) funding to 75 innovations intended for use with conflict-affected populations in over 20 countries. We embarked upon a learning journey to better understand how innovative products and processes could be tested and pointed towards scale in humanitarian settings, in order to help solve some of the most complex problems and barriers within the humanitarian sector. This post is one of many SEED Stories: a series of blogs reflecting on what HGC-funded innovators ..read more

Since 2018, Creating Hope in Conflict: A Humanitarian Grand Challenge has provided proof of concept (Seed) and transition to scale (TTS) funding to 75 innovations intended for use with conflict-affected populations in over 20 countries. We embarked upon a learning journey to better understand how innovative products and processes could be tested and pointed towards scale in humanitarian settings, in order to help solve some of the most complex problems and barriers within the humanitarian sector. This post is one of many SEED Stories: a series of blogs reflecting on what HGC-funded innovators ..read more

Can a low-cost, zero-waste energy-producing model truly transform the lives of refugee communities in Uganda? In 2020, Creating Hope in Conflict: A Humanitarian Grand Challenge backed the vision of Mandulis Energy, at the time a budding renewable energy company, founded in 2019, that promised to address the lack of clean, affordable and sustainable energy sources for the over 2 million people living in refugee resettlements and host communities in Uganda. Four years since they began, they’ve proved that the answer to the question is a resounding yes. Through the trials of COVID and the un ..read more

Speetar Inc. (Speetar) is a US-based digital solutions organization that bridges the gap in access to affordable and quality healthcare to conflict-affected communities in Libya. Speetar has received a $300,000 Transition to Scale grant from Creating Hope in Conflict: A Humanitarian Grand Challenge (CHIC). TORONTO/BOSTON, June 27, 2023 — Speetar is a digital solutions organization that provides affordable healthcare to conflict-affected communities in Libya. They offer a safer, practical means of seeking healthcare and increases the overall efficiency of Libya’s healthcare system. Founded in ..read more

Since 2018, Creating Hope in Conflict: A Humanitarian Grand Challenge has provided proof of concept (Seed) and transition to scale (TTS) funding to 75 innovations intended for use with conflict-affected populations in over 20 countries. We embarked upon a learning journey to better understand how innovative products and processes could be tested and pointed towards scale in humanitarian settings, in order to help solve some of the most complex problems and barriers within the humanitarian sector. This post is one of many SEED Stories: a series of blogs reflecting on what HGC-funded innovators ..read more

Since 2018, Creating Hope in Conflict: A Humanitarian Grand Challenge has provided proof of concept (Seed) and transition to scale (TTS) funding to 75 innovations intended for use with conflict-affected populations in over 20 countries. We embarked upon a learning journey to better understand how innovative products and processes could be tested and pointed towards scale in humanitarian settings, in order to help solve some of the most complex problems and barriers within the humanitarian sector. This post is one of many SEED Stories: a series of blogs reflecting on what HGC-funded innovators ..read more