Humanitarian Innovation Accelerator

With that aim, it launched the multi-donor Humanitarian Innovation Accelerator (HIA) programme on 1 February 2023. On 29 June 2023, the top 16 projects (selected from 378 project proposals) met at the Pitch Event at Luxexpo the Box in Luxembourg-Kirchberg to showcase their solutions. An innovation committee has selected eight winning projects that will be supported and scaled up during the first half of 2024. As the main donor, Luxembourg is supporting four projects (Nurotech, Speetar, Bleaglee and WASDI) that are at the mature stage, through a financial envelope made available to the WFP.