Post on 30-May-2020
UNDP’s Approaches
on Innovation in Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilient
Recovery
Sanny R. Jegillos UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub
Forum on Advancing Science and Technology in the Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
19 July 2016
Asia Pacific Innovation Framework
Innovation Approaches
Innovation Journey 2014 ~ Present
2014 2015 2016
Regional Innovation Summit @Bangkok 90 development practitioners
Innovators from 30 countries
Innovation Fund Launched
18 projects 12 countries
Innovation Ambassador Workshop @Sri Lanka 14 champions trained
16 projects 13 countries
Innovation Fund Cont. 8 scaled up
Regional Challenges, Platforms & Exchange
More: • Initiatives around SDG • New Partnerships • Capacity building
Innovation Key Strategic Initiatives 2016
Innovation City Exchange
- Partner: Seoul Metropolitan Government - Areas: citizen engagement, government
innovation capacity, liveable smart cities
Innovative Finance Models for SDG Crowdsourcing & Games for SDG Monitoring
- Partner: Global Pulse Lab - Areas: SDGs localization & data
ASEAN Big IDEAS
Challenge for Cities
- Partner: Pulse Lab, NIA Korea & the ASEAN
- Areas: basic service delivery, sustainable transport & energy, resilience to natural disasters & climate change, harmonious urban environments
3rd Generation Innovation for
Asia Pacific
Regional Programme
- Using drones and robotics for real time CDRR data mapping
- Using drones & VR for advocacy, empathy and resource mobilization for DRR
- Forecast based financing for DRR - El Nino Realtime Data Dashboard - Leveraging youth to power innovation - Innovation capacity for sub national governments
- To develop in-house expertise - To build use case applications in
cutting-edge areas through a portfolio of multiple parallel experiments
Country Offices
UN Social Impact Fund (UNSIF)
Areas: crowdfunding, blockchain, impact investment, smart remittances, P2P lending
Drones for Disaster Risk Reduction
Drones & VR for Advocacy, Empathy
and Resource Mobilization for DRR
One out of every six New Zealanders who watched Clouds Over Sidra donated to a UNICEF appeal.
Youth & Innovations:
Power of the combination
Bangladesh
YouthQuake Youth Campaign for
Earthquake Preparedness
Maldives Miyaheli (Meaning: a good harvest) Social Innovation Camp Partner: Ooredoo
Sri Lanka
Foresight & Innovation Summit
Hackathons & Youth Leads
Thailand
Social Innovation Camp & Incubation for DRR
20+ Partners from government & private sector
Viet Nam #HowAbnormal campaign Video contest for youth break gender stereotypes
New partnership with HATCH! VENTURES
Nepal Idea Challenge For young entrepreneurs Partner: Microsoft