Today already marks the third week since the DCHI Humanitarian innovation course kicked off. A core group of 25 eager participants joins the weekly classes, facilitated by our Coalition partners. This weeksโ lesson was all about collaborating with multiple stakeholders & building a coalition/ ecosystem. We are excited about the interaction and insights during the course! We Empower The Innovator and build a meaningful coalition to increase the impact and reduce inefficiency and the costs of humanitarian action. Next week we will dive into entrepreneurship goals with Mercy Corps and Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences.
๐๐ผ๐ ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ป ๐๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ป๐ป๐ผ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ถ๐๐ต ๐บ๐๐น๐๐ถ๐ฝ๐น๐ฒ ๐๐๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ต๐ผ๐น๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐บ๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ผ๐๐๐๐๐ฒ๐บ?
This BIG question was guiding our DCHI Humanitarian Innovation Course this week. Fronteer, a global strategy & innovation firm, shared their professional expertise on how co creation leads to the design of meaningful projects with their clients.
๐๐๐ง๐๐ฌ ๐๐ง ๐๐๐ฌ๐ ๐๐ญ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐๐๐๐ฆ๐๐ฉ
In practice, the current challenges in the humanitarian sector puts together multiple dimensions and obstacles that must be taken into account. Frank Velthuizen from War Child Holland explained how TeamUp, an evidence-based intervention, is scaling up and expanding their impact. With the goal of helping 1 million children around the globe by 2025 in mind, our participants were asked to share their ideas on how to maintain quality of implementation at scale?!
Clear roles and commitment
There was general consensus that co-creating & innovating together with multiple partners is a tricky business. There are several watch-outs to be mindful of, establishing clear roles and commitment to create impact amongst other things. Building a healthy foundation comes with several design challenges. But no worries, weโve got you covered! Check out the toolkit from MIT D-Lab on the DCHI Bookshelf about creating inclusive partnerships based on a year-long learning journey. A very practical step-by-step toolkit filled with easy to use canvasses to set you up for successful public-private partnerships. Healthy partnerships, coalitions & ecosystems donโt happen overnight and are always in flux. This toolkit will at least help you build a more durable foundation for the future.
Online Access to Materials and Resources
The DCHI course findings in the larger theme of “humanitarian innovation” underscore the importance of open access to learning, materials and resources. Platforms like Kaya are integral for sharing course information and helping our coalition manage innovation in their programmes and projects. The responses of the students currently participating in the course tell us they see the innovation methods becoming the logical default and want to share materials and learnings in an organized and easy-to-navigate format within their organisations. The course resources will be available on Kaya, the humanitarian leadership academy in a couple of months. Until than you can read and listen materials used or highlighted by the course instructors from the DCHI Library .
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