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UNDP, Ministry of Village to Work Together on Strengthening Planning Process

UNDP signed a Letter of Intent with Indonesia’s Ministry of Village, Development of Disadvantaged Regions and Transmigration (Kemendesa PDTT) to adopt the Social Innovation Platform (SIP) to strengthen local development planning processes in Indonesia.

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4 Things We’ve Learned from Piloting Social Innovation Platform in Hushe Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan

As we develop SIP in the Hushe Valley, we asked ourselves at UNDP: Can SIP complement–and perhaps even replace–traditional siloed interventions with an approach that is more inclusive to the communities we serve and more transformative in its impact?

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Quality Education Needs Better Urban Planning: the Story of Azam Basti

UNDP in Pakistan applied SIP to inform the project on improving access to justice & human rights for the resilient development of informal urban communities in Karachi. Read the insights captured from local school teachers and students on how urban planning is critical to quality education.

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Unlocking the Power of Local Food Markets: Promoting Smart, Sustainable, and Inclusive Development in Southern Thailand

“Local authorities have an important role to play here; they need to have a deeper understanding of local dynamics, have insights into people’s problems, provide support, set up standards and protect both vendors and customers.”

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Social Innovation Platform in a Nutshell

Local development issues are complex and there is no solution that fits all circumstances. Social Innovation Platform (SIP) is a new approach UNDP is experimenting to help bring together actors and actions across the whole society—people, governments, the business sector—to co-create and invest in integrated local development solutions that speak to people's needs, challenges and opportunities in the digital era. 

 

 

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SIP Thailand

In the southern border provinces of Thailand, SIP helps improve local food systems by encouraging new forms of collaborations and supporting innovative activities between local farmers, fishermen, SMEs, municipalities and consumers. SIP gradually helps transform local food systems through sustainable production and consumption at the subnational level.

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SIP Pakistan

In Gilgit-Baltistan, SIP helps propel socio-economic change in the remote Hushe Valley by fostering inclusive and participatory collaborations between communities, governments, and business sector to explore the potential of food economy and agro-tourism.
In Karachi, SIP has developed an AI platform to help local policy makers better understand community needs in informal urban settlements in real time.

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SIP Indonesia

In Gorontalo and West Java, SIP helps accelerate sustainable village development by bringing together local stakeholders including communities, development and planning agencies, and SMEs to co-design integrated solutions for blue economy and sustainable tourism development.
SIP complements traditional community consultation mechanism "Musrenbang" by facilitating new forms of collaboration between various stakeholders and putting people at the center of development planning.

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SIP Global

UNDP started implementing SIP in Asia and the Pacific by supporting the platforms in the three "early adopter" countries (Thailand, Indonesia, Pakistan).
Rolling out beyond the region, UNDP is supporting SIPs in countries and regions across the globe to help develop people-centric integrated solutions for the SDGs that UNDP Strategic Plan 2022-2025 calls for.

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Young people at the Food Systems Heroes 2021
From a Good Idea to Great Learning with Experimentation

There is a saying, “Innovation amateurs talk good ideas; innovation experts talk testable hypothesis.” by Michael Schrage. Read how Social Innovation Platform helps bring together local young in southern Thailand to co-create and prototype solutions to transforming local food systems.

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A Destined Indonesian Farmer Shares his Next Path on Green Tourism

Read how Ikin Sugiro, a farmer from Cirawu village of Indonesia, views the importance of 'listening to communities' and 'co-creating solutions' for sustainable tourism development in West Java.

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Informing the "New Normal": What We Have Learned from Listening to Southern Thai Communities

Digital listening in southern Thailand in combination with traditional ethnographic work helped assess the impact of the crisis and found changing power dynamics — the pandemic further weakened already vulnerable communities and local businesses, yet also provided unexpected business opportunities to some.

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