Matchmaking
The Matchmaking Function
Matching humanitarian problems with innovative solutions.
The Matchmaker program is a new online platform developed by the Response Innovation Lab that seeks to connect humanitarian problem holders with tested solutions. Whether in the public or private sector, our program is open to any organization that is interested in using new solutions to solve humanitarian challenges.
Users of the service can be humanitarian organizations, government ministries, private sector, CBOs, social enterprises or any organization that is interested to use new solutions to solve humanitarian challenges.
The Matchmaker has been piloted in the five RIL country labs since the beginning of 2018 and the organization now needs to further build this service and its products. The Matchmaker is currently being delivered free of charge with support from DEPP Innovation Labs, Start Network and DFID.
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Humanitarian Challenge Holders
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For those looking to solve humanitarian challenges in new and innovative ways, the Matchmaker can help! After you submit an application, we conduct research to find the best potential solution for you and when possible, connect you to the identified solution providers. Please read our terms of agreement.
Subject Matter Experts
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Our volunteer subject matter experts from around the globe our essential to the Matchmaker model. We often seek advice from those who are experienced in humanitarian sectors in order to help us identify tested solutions and validate ongoing innovations.
Innovation Submissions
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Each innovation submission is collected into our vast database of Global Innovations. Once we validate submissions with the help of our subject matter experts, we then suggest the innovations as potential solutions for our humanitarian challenge holders.
Solution Packets
The process of matching challenges with solutions can yield several options for the context in which the challenge exists. Therefor, each Challenge Holder is presented with a Solution Packet that consists of a variety of options, feedback from Subject Matter Experts, failures, and success, so that they may apply other outlying characteristics to the solution that fits best.
Below are packets our labs have completed to date:
Case Study
In 2020, World Vision Somalia and OGOW EMR, with the support of the Somali Response Innovation Lab ran a pilot in certain areas of Somalia to pilot the OGOW EMR app. With great success, this pilot has ended. Please watch this video and see how a challenge was matched with a solution to bring impact to Somali’s.