UNICEF Innovation
Finding water underground in some of the world's driest places just got much quicker.
Transient electromagnetics (TEM) uses electrical pulses to help calculate the depth, size and type of aquifers...
UNICEF announces its first Femtech Ventures cohort, backing frontier tech founders across Africa and Asia to expand equitable access to health, wellbeing and sexual and reproductive health and righ...
Responsible Innovation in Technology for Children (RITEC) is a global initiative led by UNICEF in partnership with the LEGO Foundation, the LEGO Group, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center and Games for Cha...
In the first global UNICEF Game Jam, four of the seven award categories were won by Cambodian teams — a remarkable achievement that underscores the country’s momentum.
Cambodia is one of the eight...
Every two minutes, a woman dies from pregnancy-related causes, and the vast majority of these deaths are preventable. In many low- and middle-income countries, pregnancy detection — the first step ...
Climate change is rapidly depleting water sources in fragile, crisis-affected areas. To meet this urgent challenge, UNICEF hosted a three-day workshop from November 5 – 7, 2025, in Nairobi focused ...
A team of UPSHIFT participants — young people from Ukraine living as refugees in Poland — created a project to honor the kindness of the local Polish community by making and handing out recycled pa...
Young refugees from Ukraine living in Poland — including youth with disabilities — use photography to challenge stereotypes about disability and share their dreams. They created 12 personal photo s...
An UPSHIFT team of young refugees from Ukraine in Poland creates Fekulen — a cultural centre born from the simple need for a place to play music, perform, and learn the local language. What began a...
Many young refugees from Ukraine in Poland struggle to connect and communicate confidently in a new environment.
Through UPSHIFT, they created a project that brings youth together weekly to stren...
Digging for the future! In Timor-Leste, local communities are building ponds and terraces to capture precious rainfall, ensuring a sustainable source of water for drier times.
With the support ...
How transient electromagnetics is helping improve access to water by mapping groundwater sources with more ease and accuracy than ever before. The innovative technology, advanced in Denmark, is bei...
Play is one of the most powerful ways to learn and grow. The first global UNICEF Game Jam challenged young people under 21 years old from eight countries (Armenia, Brazil, Cambodia, India, Kazakhs...
The UNICEF Spark Accelerator builds innovation capacity within the organization. It identifies solutions improving outcomes for children and their communities, prioritizes open-source approaches, a...
We caught up with Angel Assiam, CEO of Equity Future, Anders Berlin, Head of Strategic Funds, UNCDF, Jerusalem Taye, Head, SATO Africa and David Duncan, Senior Advisor, UNICEF Sustainable WASH Inno...
Most research on business models still revolves around the for‑profit world, where “value” often means maximizing profit, with sustainability framed through the familiar triple bottom line (profit,...
UNICEF’s Game Changers Coalition (GCC) is on a mission to equip young people with the skills they need to create an equitable digital future.
Using innovative approaches including video game deve...
UNICEF and Rhodes University (RUBIC) are collaborating to bring next-generation point-of-care diagnostics powered by aptamers to underserved children and women. Watch this short explainer video to ...
As children grapple with increasing water scarcity, innovation is needed more than ever.
Over 300 innovators and experts attended the @UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub summit, ‘Accelerat...
Over 5 million people in more than 70 countries have had improved access to health systems. 🌏
With a focus on leveraging frontier technologies developed in and for emerging economies, the UNICEF ..