HNPW2019: Interactive session - practical tools for scaling innovations

The fifth Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Week (HNPW) will be held at the International Conference Centre (CICG) in Geneva, Switzerland from 4-8 February 2019.
The event will host the annual meetings and consultations of humanitarian Networks and Partnerships and bring together experts in crisis preparedness and response from a diversity of organizations and countries to identify solutions to common humanitarian challenges.

Interactive Session: Practical tools for scaling innovations

Lead: Global Alliance for Humanitarian Innovation

Scale Profiles: IFRC; UNHCR; Start Network

Other case study presenters: Humanitarian Innovation Fund; Innovation Norway

Objectives of the event

• Introduce a new framework to assess pathways to scale humanitarian innovations.
• Launch the GAHI’s new publication, Humanitarian Innovation: Untangling the many paths to Scale.
• Test and refine the publication’s practical, hands on tools to support the scale assessment framework through interactive session with participants

Agenda

Framing of event, Laura Walker McDonald, Global Alliance for Humanitarian Innovation

Opening Remarks, Neil Townsend, Start Network

Presentation, "Untangling the many paths to Scale", Alice Obrecht, ALNAP

Scale case studies, Jemilah Mahmood, IFRC & Chris Earney, UNHCR

Interactive break-out groups: participants use the scale framework to try to analyze and predict some of the challenges and choices involved in scaling. Cases to be discussed will include:

• START-Network, Neil Townsend
• Innovation Norway, Ingvild von Krogh Strand
• Humanitarian Innovation Fund, Frances Hill
• UNHCR, Chris Earney

Report back and Closing Remarks, Rahul Chandran, Global Alliance for Humanitarian Innovation.

For more information on the event, the week’s programme and individual sessions, please visit our website: www.hnpw.org