Accelerator Lab in the Pacific

Accelerator Lab in the Pacific

The Accelerator Labs represent UNDP’s new strategy and thinking in relation to development and advocating bolder innovation.

Traditional approaches to development are struggling to keep up with today’s social and environmental challenges, therefore, the Pacific Lab based in Fiji will try to address the following questions:

How do we better tackle complex and fast-moving “frontier challenges” in the region?
How do we find the most relevant solutions that work locally?
How do we learn more quickly about what works and what doesn’t?

Essentially the Lab moves innovation from the margins to the center of UNDP’s programming work.

Call for partners

The UNDP Pacific Accelerator Labs is calling for potential partnerships who seek to solve similar issues to that of the Lab. You can contact us via email: acclabpacific@undp.org

Accelerator labs global

You can visit our global site here: Accelerator Labs global platform

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In the period between May and August 2021, the Accelerator Lab conducted ethnography and community immersions around the Nasese foreshore and seawall area in Suva, Fiji, exploring how grassroot communities were grappling with the second surge of the COVID-19 pandemic and some of the ways they were navigating their livelihoods. Despite ongoing restrictions and COVID-19 protocols in place, we observed there was no stopping many of the country folks, the ‘new middles’, from instituting their own measures for food and income security.

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Strengthening Communities, Building Futures for Gender Equality

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Community-driven Solutions for Environmental Stewardship: The GEF Small Grants Programme in Fiji and its Role in Shaping Global Climate Dialogue at COP

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Navigating the Pacific’s Future: Resilience, Heritage, and the Enduring Spirit of the UN Charter

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As threats from climate change and environmental degradation mount, global attention has turned to inclusive and green financial inclusion policies that respond to the needs of the most vulnerable.