Project profile — Humanitarian Innovation Fund 2012-2013

• Africa, regional (25.00%)
• America, regional (25.00%)
• Asia, regional (25.00%)
• Europe, regional (25.00%)

• Emergency Response: Relief co-ordination; protection and support services (72050) (100.00%)

• Gender equality (not targeted)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (not targeted)
• Participatory development and good governance (not targeted)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (not targeted)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Children's issues (not targeted)
• Youth Issues (not targeted)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)

Greater support for innovative solutions to the challenges facing operational agencies in the field is increasingly seen as key to improving the effectiveness of humanitarian action. The Humanitarian Innovation Fund (HIF) supports organizations to develop, test, and share new technologies and processes that aim to make humanitarian assistance more effective and cost-efficient. CIDA support for the HIF contributes to the development and diffusion of these innovations while strengthening innovation efforts at a global level through improvements to innovation processes, research standards, and the evidence-base for how innovations can improve humanitarian responses.

Outputs: The development and diffusion of humanitarian innovations with the potential to make tangible and verifiable contributions to improving humanitarian performance; a strengthened evidence-base of how innovations contribute to improved humanitarian accountability and performance; increased collaboration between humanitarian agencies in innovation processes, and better access by humanitarian agencies to academic and corporate actors with expertise in innovation; and enhanced support for humanitarian innovation at a global level, including growth in pooled research and development resources for the sector to invest in new and ongoing innovation processes. Outcome: The principal outcome of the HIF is to deliver a measurable increase in innovation in humanitarian practice resulting in cost-effective and demonstrable improvements in humanitarian outcomes.

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