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  1. Unlocking Innovation: Enabling and blocking factors in developing innovative programmes in Oxfam GB

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    Oxfam published a report reviewing 13 of its in-house innovative initiatives and dissected those factors promising success, impact at scale, systemitic change, access to new funding as well as partnerships. Abstract: In this rapidly changing world, how can a development and humanitarian NGO like...
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  2. Using Mobile Phones for Polio Prevention in Somalia: An evaluation of the 2013–14 interactive messaging and mobile voucher system deployed in hard to reach area

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    Oxfam, UNICEF and local partner Hijra developed a mobile phone based health promotion project in Somalia to support Polio prevention and control which began in November 2013. The project was implemented with two complementary components: pre-emptive community education delivered through interactive...
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  5. Using Mobile Phone Data and Airtime Credit Purchases to Estimate Food Security

    2015_un_global_pulse_using_mobile_phone_data_and_airtime_credit_purchases_to_estimate_food_security_partners_un_world_food_programme_.pdf 1.76 MB
    A new UN Global Pulse study in collaboration with WFP, Universite Catholique de Louvan and Real Impact Analytics identifies airtime credit purchases (i.e. phone credit "topups") as realtime proxy indicatrors for food spending in Eastern Africa. This could promise new uses of mobile phone data for...
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  10. Innovation spaces: Transforming humanitarian practice in the United Nations

    2015_bloom_innovation_spaces_transforming_humanitarian_practice_in_the_united_nations.pdf 471.51 KB
    This Oxford Refugee Centre working paper zooms in on the rise of humanitarian innovation spaces, such as innovation labs and hubs. It recognizes that the complex bureaucratic structure of the UN is often seen as a barrier to efficiency and innovation and thus explains and analyses how UN bodies are...
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