UN Solution Exchange

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What We Do

Solution Exchange is a knowledge management initiative of the United Nations Country Team in India. Initiated in 2005 as a membership based online forum, Solution Exchange India brings together development practitioners from civil society, non-government organisations, international organisations, private sector, academia, media and the government to share knowledge based on experience and facilitate off-line collaboration.

Events

Observing 10th Anniversary of the Indian Ocean Tsunami-Lessons and Voices here.

Recent Event

National Consultation on “Enhancing Knowledge and Innovation for Effective Disaster Risk Reduction in India”, held on 6th December 2014 New Delhi. Watch the recorded version of the National Consultation here.

Our Goals

Smarter Development

Connecting practitioners: From across India and the world so that solutions are many, multi-dimensional and inclusive

Tapping knowledge: From a vast tacit knowledge pool that is brought together irrespective of geographical distances

Seeding ideas: With the real-time exchange of information so that new ideas and learning spread quickly and multiply

Inspiring Change

Facilitating feedback: From practitioners on policies, strategies, reports, programme design, government bills so that development is more responsive to people’s needs

Widening Choices

Disseminating experiences: Shared by practitioners including innovations, tools, lessons learnt, good practices, success stories so that no one has to reinvent the wheel

Replicating good practices: Those that have worked well so that development interventions have a higher chance of success[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]

Climate Change (UNDP)

 

Decentralization (UNDP)

 

Disaster Management (UNDP)

 

Food and Nutrition Security (FAO)

 

Gender (UNICEF & UN Women)

 

Maternal and Child Health (UNICEF)

 

Microfinance (UNDP)

 

Open Knowledge (UNESCO)

 

Water (UNICEF)

 

Work and Employment (ILO)

 

In support of the national development priorities and the Millennium Development Goals, Solution Exchange India runs 10 Communities of Practice hosted by six UN agencies.

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Special Recognition

  • eWorld Public Choice Award under the category ‘Best Initiative for Localized Application/Content’ in 2012: The eWorld Award is an international award instituted by eGov magazine supported by Department of Electronics & Information Technology, National eGovernance Plan (NeGP), Department of Telecommunications, National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI), Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India. The eWorld 2012 Awards are aimed at encouraging continued use of technology for solving the problems of governance and for making the government more responsive, effective and citizen oriented. Over 70,000 people voted for 82 projects across 13 categories.
  • Regional Bureau Asia-Pacific 2010 Excellence Award for Outstanding Achievement in knowledge sharing: This award to Solution Exchange India was confered at the United Nations Development Programme’s Regional Bureau for Asia-Pacific’s cluster meeting from among nominees received in this category.

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