How do we measure the true impact of innovation when success often emerges long after the pilot phase? This session brings together experts from UNICEF, Oxfam, The MENTOR Initiative, Elrha, Grand Challenges Canada, and Innovation Norway to explore key metrics, data use, and how to assess innovations — with opening remarks from Ambassador Tormod C. Endresen.
Innovation projects deliver impact differently than conventional programming in the humanitarian space; Innovating typically involves backtracking, pivoting and constant iteration. Furthermore, the lion’s share of the impact sought through innovation efforts will manifest after the pilot project itself, as new solutions hopefully scale and go from experiment to business-as-usual. This spurs a range of questions with regard to monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL); How do we measure the improvement new solutions deliver compared to existing ones? When are innovations mature enough that the impact can be measured? What data can support the measuring of innovation outcomes?
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This session brings together experts from UNICEF, Oxfam, The MENTOR Initiative, Elrha, Grand Challenges Canada and Innovation Norway to explore how we assess innovations, define key metrics like scale and adoption, and make better use of existing data to measure results.
In the session we will have the pleasure of hearing from innovators and adopters of innovation Caroline Masboungi, GBV Specialist (Technology & Innovation), UNICEF, Ayla Al-Kharrat, Middle East and Nigeria Programme Manager - The MENTOR Initiative and Raissa Azzalini, Public Health Adviser Oxfam Global Humanitarian Team Middle East.
We will also have the pleasure of hearing from experts in humanitarian innovation, Valeria Izzi, Senior MEAL Adviser, Elrha and Alana Changoor - Associate Director, Knowledge Management and Translation - Grand Challenges Canada.
The session will be opend by Ambassador Tormod C. Endresen, Ambassador of Norway - Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva and moderated by Therese Marie Uppstrøm Pankratov, Head of the Humanitarian Innovation Programme, Innovation Norway .
Salle 9, CICG, Geneva
09.00 - 10.30 CET
25.03.2025
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