Developing innovation initiatives to solv eworld problems, such as mother-to-baby HIV transmission has its challenges. Such challenges, as seen with examples from USAid have been succesfully addressed by involving a number of minds from a range of disciplines.

A little LED device called Nuru is being piloted to power homes and empower women, in Burundi.

The current kit label innovation project is being tested in the Philippines. You can read more about the project here: http://www.unicefinnovation.org/projects/emergency-kit-labelling

Marks and Spencer becomes the first major company to back scheme designed to cut emissions while protecting children’s health

Malawi might not spring to mind as a hot-bed of healthcare innovation. Neither might Bangladesh or Colombia. But that view is changing. All over developing countries, determined people are finding brilliant and creative solutions for long-standing problems.

Though preventable, pneumonia continues to account for high number of child deaths in the country. Winifred Ogbebo takes a look at the issues involved. We welcome you to take a look at some of our current innovation projects that seek to find solutions to reduce child deaths due to pneumonia:http://www.unicefinnovation.org/projects/strengthening-pneumonia-diagnostic-tools-low-resource-settings

A leader of the UN Development Programme’s innovation team recently said that the development community needs to move towards user-led innovations and move away from top-down innovations unless they are designed with a thorough understanding of the beliefs and customs of their users.

During his visit to Estonia on Saturday, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon underscored the vital role of technology and innovation in finding solutions to some of today’s most pressing challenges such as advancing the global sustainable development agenda.

Investing in education of girls, especially the most marginalised, is required to make progress on most social indicators in India.To mark the second International Day of the Girl Child, UNICEF on Friday organised a meeting with top Urdu editors in the capital. The focus of the meeting was on the crucial role that media can play to create a sustained discourse and highlight innovations that get more girls to school, keep them in school and improve the quality of learning for all children.

If you had to walk a mile for a jug of water every day, as millions of people do, it’s unlikely you’d use that precious water to bathe. Young entrepreneur Ludwick Marishane tells the amazing story of how he invented a cheap, clean and convenient solution.

The danish newspaper, Berlingske, has written an article featuring the UNICEF supply division innovation unit’s work in developing a solution that will make diagnosing pneumonia in developing countries easier. The innovation will help to reduce the number of child deaths due to pneumonia, which currently kills an estimated 1.36 million children each year.