Disruptive Innovations for women and girls

Around the world, people are finding new ways to remove the barriers to fundamental rights. By blending tech solutions with the wisdom and knowledge of UNFPA’s network of partners, these innovations are changing lives, at scale. UNFPA is partnering with innovators to accelerate progress for women and girls. This collection of stories gives us a glimpse into some of the challenges and best ideas that are making an impact.

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Ride-hailing app delivers contraceptives to users’ doorsteps

17 July 2020
The SafeBoda ride hailing app can now be used to order essential reproductive health supplies. © SafeBoda
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Innovating to Ensure Rights and Choices

22 Jul 2020
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UNFPA Innovation Projects Updates - COVID-19 Edition

20 Jul 2020
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Testing innovations to break through Maternal Health bottlenecks during COVID19 and beyond

08 Jun 2020
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Accelerating innovation to end unmet need for family planning

26 Jul 2019
The innovation team from UNFPA's North Macedonia office works on developing their 'Digital Storytellers' project at the Innovation Bootcamp in Munich. © UNFPA EECARO
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With the Republic of Korea and UNDP, fostering youth-led innovations in Rwanda

26 Jul 2019
The Tantine mobile phone app, developed by one of the winners of the first round of UNFPA’s iAccelerator programme, delivers youth-friendly information on sexual and reproductive health, in an easily accessible and engaging format. “We thought of using ICT as a bridge,” said co-founder Sylvie Uhirwa, to reach young people who might otherwise have no other source of reliable information. © UNFPA Rwanda
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Barcode technology transforms access to family planning in the Philippines

03 June 2019
Ms. Bedla and midwife Ms. Ruanto at the San Roque health centre. © UNFPA Philippines/Reginald Sarmenta
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UNFPA and Philips to co-create innovative health solutions for women and girls

21 Sep 2018
“We see huge potential in this thought partnership for innovation,” said UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem (right), with Henk Siebren de Jong, Chief of International Markets for Royal Philips (left). © UNFPA/Usenabasi Esiet
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For girls escaping FGM in rural Tanzania, crowdsourced maps show the way to safety

22 October 2018
Ending FGM takes a multi-pronged approach – from offering a refuge for girls at acute risk to engaging families and communities to raise awareness of the harm it causes, and transform the social norms that uphold the practice. Here, girls in Tanzania’s Mara region participate in an alternative rites of passage camp at the UNFPA-supported Masanga Centre. © UNFPA/Mandela Gregoire
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