Support to Save the Children Sudan and its partners
From May through August 2022, the RIL Central Support Unit worked with the Save the Children Sudan Country Office to help its team and partners apply innovation processes to four challenges that they had identified:
Exclusion of girls from the school system
High demand for alternative education programmes
Lack of youth engagement with commnunity decision-making structures
Limited success of hygiene campaigns in water scarce areas
The CSU developed an “Innovation Decathlon” approach (more diverse and prolonged than a “sprint”) that spanned four months and featured weekly remote workshop sessions, independent work for the four teams and a two-day in-person Convener event held in Khartoum on July 5-6, 2022.
Over 40 SC staff, local NGO partners and guests from the Sudan humanitarian innovation ecosystem have taken part in the process. An bilingual (English and Arabic) interactive ecosystem map is under development and will be released in Q4 2022.
At the time of this writing the four teams are working on prototyping solutions and developing pitches for pilot funding requests.