1. Innovations: Towards Our Goals for Namibia
Passil Dias
7 October 2015

2. What we do?
Health
Education
Social Protection

3. Making Small Things Big

4. UNICEF Innovation Unit
Innovation is one of the seven identified strategies in the UNICEF Global Strategic Plan

5. UNICEF’s Innovation World
Innovation in an organization is something you can measure, and something you can count
ESAR has implemented over 70 projects since the emergence of innovations in Globally, ESAR has the most innovation experience, resulting in important LESSONS LEARNED and BEST PRACTICES for project DESIGN, DEPLOYMENT, and SCALING that the region can apply retroactively to existing projects and to future initiatives. The collective experience in ESAR represents a brain trust for all country offices, within and outside ESAR, allowing the region to be a global innovations leader.
UNICEF Innovation is working to increase UNICEF, partners, and governments access to real time information. Real time information provides greater oversight over programmes, allows for evidence-based decision-making, and timely programme adjustment.
Young people are the fastest growing population in East Africa. UNICEF is working to empower youth and connect them to the traditional systems in order to hear their voices on issues that matter to them most.
Access to information is fundamental to innovation for equity.  The biggest change that we need to foster, and that is happening already in some places, is the push to get connectivity (access to information, opportunity, and choice) to the world's most marginalized populations.
UNICEF’s Innovation World

6. Innovations for Development
HWT- Household Water Tretment Kits for less than U$20. T4D or T4D
HWT Kit
T4D

7. UNICEF Innovation Principles
Design with the user
Understand existing ecosystems
Design for scale
Build for sustainability
Be data-driven
Open standards, open data, open source
Reuse and improve
Do no harm
Be collaborative

8. ??? Innovation Objectives ??? IMPACT ??? ??? User friendly
A solution to a problem
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IMPACT
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9. RapidPro Necessity is the mother of all Inventions Innovations
mTrac
mHealth
RapidPro
U-Report
mTrac
mHealth
uReport
EduTrac
In these ever changing world bringing us new challenges faster than we can adapt – urbanization, climate change, high levels of inequalities and new and mutating epidemics. Youth Engagement. Using the FLOW BUILD processes. You don’t need a programmer.

10. HTC in school and health centres
HIV Testing and Counselling
Innovation in Namibia
Ministry of Health and Social Service HTC summary report (24 June - 8 September 2014)
Female
Male
 Total
Total number of Clients registered and received results
784
304
1088
Total number of first time testers
641
261
902
Total number of repeat testers
144 42
186
Region
Use of YEAH! app
HTC in school and health centres
Female
Male
Omusati
764
408
374
130
Oshana
641
283
410
174
Total numbers combined
1,405
691
784
304

12. Listen Loud Campaign

13. At UNICEF we believe… Academia Civil Public Private GRN NGOs
We believe in partnerships to achieve more for children
Obtenez Rabaté Kids Jigsaw Puzzles

14. Innovation Labs
UNICEF Innovation Labs are open, collaborative incubation accelerators that bring business, universities, governments and civil society together to create sustainable solutions to the most pressing challenges facing children and youth

15. Innovation Labs
14 Labs so far operating in various parts of the world. From Armenia to Zambia.
We need to think to open one in Namibia. HEW, Youth Engagement, Inclusivity. Health Issues. Gender Base Violence. End Open Defecation. To sensibilize our drivers on the roads.

16. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. Samuel Beckett
Our country is ripe for Innovations. There’s an enabling environment. Government is very keen. Stakeholders are willing to participate. The infrastructure in place. Our children and women, the society at large is waiting for us to do more for the betterment of our people.

17. Thank You