Organisational Tools for Innovation in Development Three levers

Organisational Tools for Innovation in Development Three levers for change 1. Internal understanding: Innovation Funds Portfolio Review Finding out what we already do in the organisation 2. Changing the way we work: Learn. Adapt programme Challenging existing structures in the organisation 3. Bringing in new methods and technologies: Frontier Technology Enabling new experiments in the organisation Olivia O’Sullivan, Emerging Policy, Innovation and Capability (EPIC), Department of International Development (DFID) DAC Roundtable on Development Innovation for Agenda 2030, 21 st November 2017

• Innovation Funds Portfolio Review What do we mean by innovation and challenge funds? How many do we already have? • What are we trying to achieve with open, competitive funds? What are they investing in? • Where next?

Innovation Funds Portfolio Review Aim: Follow the money, track innovation, understand trade-offs and improve knowledge and learning Findings: Over 50 innovation and challenge funds in DFID. Individual fund strategies but no overview at portfolio level What next? • Create a strategic overview • Combine and simplify upfront costs • Learn and make use of existing platforms

Learn. Adapt is an advisory offer inside DFID. It offers a set of tools and approaches that can be applied to a programme or to a whole portfolio. Learn. Adapt draws on experience of Adaptive Management in the development sector and it borrows methods and approaches from the commercial technology sector – such as Agile and Lean Startup.

Learn. Adapt is exploring new ways to achieve results and manage risk, by applying Lean and Agile methods: Waterfall (flow) Agile Sprints Lean Start-up BUILD RELEASE HUMAN FEEDBACK

Lean cycles of learning PROBLEM or INTERVENTION MEASURE HYPOTHESIS USER DISCOVERY BUILD LEARN AGILE SPRINT Learn. Adapt ‘Things to Try Cards’ – one page examples of working with new methods and tools

Testing the use case of Frontier Technologies to address development challenges Funding to pilot frontier technologies in use Matchmaking DFID innovators with and entrepreneurs Working in Lean and Agile ways

Frontier Technology and Lean in action 10 Sprint Experiments run inside DFID 3 D Printing in Nepal Super. Wifi in Nepal Solar. Enabler in Zimbabwe Machine Learning in Tanzania e. WATERpay in Tanzania Links to post-Earthquake reconstruction projects and Ec. Dev portfolio Links to education priorities as well as internet for all / digital access more widely Links to Energy Africa Initiative and Health priorities (clinic electrification) Links to Rural Roads programme and expected call to support Go. T in manual rural roads survey Links to WB, USAID and other programmes in design. Potential links with large WASH RBF programme in Tanzania if proven Humanitarian Feedback in Ethiopia Blockchain for Humanitarian Supply Smart Meter Challenge Mesh network in Mozambique Frontier Infrastructure Management Testing a new beneficiary feedback approaches for the large basic services and humanitarian programmes in Ethiopia Links to CHASE OT supply chain optimisation, delivery of ready to use therapeutic foods (Nutrition Team) Priority of UK-India Energy Initiative, linked with UK and major Go. I commitments to improve revenue collection and service levels Links to MUVA, Mozambique (women’s economic development) and Digital Delivery widely India-specific, but also broader, priority on improved monitoring of the performance, impact and Vf. M of rural infrastructure