2023 Orientation - INNOVATION SPRINGBOARD PROGRAMME

2023 UNFPA Innovation Springboard Programme

Introduction and Orientation

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WELCOME to the session!

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DR. NIGINA muntean

Head of the Innovation Unit, UNFPA

01 Who's in the room?

02 Breakout rooms

03 What is our journey

today's agenda

04 What will I learn?

05 Structure

06 Components

07 What we encourage

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Who's in the room?

Who's in the room?

UNSSC Innovation Team

Liyaan

BERIN

rosalia

PAULA

herman

Programme Manager

Programme Assistant

Innovation Associate

Associate Fellow

Innovation Coordinator

reach us at: INNOVATION@unssc.org

Who's in the room?

Innovation Coaches

Grace Renfurm

René de Ruijter

Sanne Mylonas

Who's in the room?

Online Moderator

Liyaan

who's in the room?

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Our Global Cohort

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UNFPA Participants

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who's in the room?

Our Global Cohort: 22 Nationalities!

• India: 2

• Jordan: 2

• Kyrgyzstan: 2

• LAC regional: 1

• Lebanon: 1

• Madagascar: 2

• Moldova: 2

• Nigeria: 2

• Papua New Guinea: 2

• Somalia: 2

• South Africa: 1

• Sri Lanka: 2

• Sudan: 2

• Turkey: 1

• Angola: 2

• Bangladesh: 1

• Bosnia and Herzegovina: 2

• Cameroon: 2

• Colombia: 2

• Denmark: 3

• Guinea: 2

• Honduras: 2

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Our Global Cohort: Gender Distribution

Male, 12 (30%)

Female, 28 (70%)

who's in the room?

Our Global Cohort

Please remember to complete the Learning Needs Assessment as soon as possible!

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Breakout Rooms

Breakout Room Guidelines

You will be placed into a breakout room with other colleagues. Grouping will be done randomly, and you will be moved into your room automatically.

When in your breakout room, please click 'Unmute' and 'Start Video' at the bottom left of your Zoom screen. If you require any technical assistance from the UNSSC Team, please click 'Ask for help'.

This is a safe space! Your breakout room will not be recorded. However, we would ask that a reporter in each room type a quick summary of the main points of your discussion in the Zoom chat when we are back in the plenary - please do not mention names.

Any questions? Please type in the chat.

Breakout Room Activity 10 minutes - 4-5 participants

Please discuss:

Describe the qualities of an ideal innovation process

Facilitator: the one who woke up earliest; Reporter: the one who woke up latest.

Breakout Room Activity 10 minutes - 4-5 participants

Please discuss:

Describe the qualities of a nightmare innovation process

Facilitator: the one with the most pets; Reporter: the one with the least pets.

our journey

Our Shared Objective

"Our shared objective is a 21st century UN focused more on people and less on process... more on delivery and less on bureaucracy."

ANTÓNIO GUTERRES, UN SECRETARY-GENERAL

our journey

Innovation in the UN

“We can do things differently, and we can do different things… innovation is not only the most sophisticated technologies, sometimes it’s the simplest of things. Be bold, be revolutionary… and disrupt… because without innovation, there is no way we can overcome the challenges of our time.”

ANTÓNIO GUTERRES, UN SECRETARY-GENERAL

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What will I learn?

Breakout Room Activity 8 minutes - 4-5 participants

Please discuss:

What do you hope to learn from the 2023 UNFPA Innovation Springboard Programme?

Facilitator: the one whose first name is closest to A; Reporter: the one whose first name is closest to Z.

Programme Objectives

What will I learn?

By the end of the programme,YOU should be able to:

... discuss what innovation is, and the different types of innovation.

... discuss how to design for testing and experimentation, to enhance innovation interventions through iteration and learning loops.

... effectively utilise the UN Innovation Toolkit; its diagnostic element; and the included UN customized tools to plan for, and facilitate, innovation.

... develop innovation storytelling and pitch capabilities/methodologies to improve communication and buy-in for innovation interventions.

... discuss how key concrete skills can foster an enabling environment for innovation through modelling and promoting psychological safety; learning from failure; and fostering creativity.

... explore how to develop a vision and a strategy for transition and change related to the implementation of your innovation efforts.

... understand how nudging and behavioural insights can further improve the tailoring of your innovations.

... undertake coaching conversations with peers related to the scoping and design of innovations.

... outline the key elements of design thinking, and apply these to the innovation process.

10-Minute Break

Our next activity is optional - if you wish, or need to take a break, that is absolutely fine. However, if you want, you can now have an opportunity to meet colleagues you have not met yet.

If you'd like to take this opportunity, please type "yes" in the Zoom chat.

After you have indicated your interest, we will place you in a breakout room. You can come back to the plenary at any time.

There is no discussion agenda for this, so feel free to use this opportunity as you'd like!

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Structure

structure

Tailor-made Programme

the programme consists of 6 components:

Weekly Feedback & Overall Programmatic Evaluation

4 Peer- Coaching Sessions

2Individual Assignments

8 Online Webinars

Weekly Readings & Resources

Weekly Discussion Forums

A Certificate of Programme completion will be issued after having completed the 6 Programme components.

structure

Programme Timeline

Note: You would best benefit from the Programme if you're able to dedicate 5 hours a week to it.

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Applied Learning

Through the programme, you will identify a potential area of innovation within your own sphere of influence and, utilising insights gained from the Programme and the UN Innovation Toolkit, apply the learning in the identified area - your applied learning will be presented through a pitch at the final Peer-Coaching Session.

Assignment with Individual Feedback

Key Readings and Resources

Discussion Forums

Thematic Webinars

Peer-Coaching Sessions

structure

UNFPA executive learning lounge

• In each Module, you will be offered the opportunity to participate in the 6 components, accessible from the password-protected UNSSC Learning Platform.

• The Platform is mobile-friendly: your learning will be accessible at any time, any place.

• You will retain access to the Platform for up to a year after the end of the Programme.

• The Platform enables social learning through a moderated Discussion Forum.

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Optional Self-Paced Learning

To continue your learning, and in addition to these mandatory components, you also have access to three optional, self-paced Modules on:

• Introduction to Innovation
• Introduction to Change Management
• Managing Up

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Components

components: FIRST COMPONENT

Online Webinars

An Introduction and Orientation Module along with 7 Thematic Modules delivered through 7 Online Webinars

Find out which skills you'll consolidate in each Module by clicking the + signs!

Behavioural Insights (UNSSC Innovation Model I)

Creating an enabling environment

Innovation and the UN iNNOVATION tOOLKIT

Introduction and Orientation

Innovation Storytelling and Pitch (UNSSC Innovation Model IV)

Embracing Transition and Change for Innovation

Test and Experiment Design (UNSSC Innovation Model III)

Design Thinking (UNSSC Innovation Model II)

COMMUNICATION

components: second COMPONENT

Individual Assignments

Two Assignments

The Assignments will be a unique opportunity to contextualize your learning to your needs and realities. The purpose of this assignment is for you to identify your case for innovation, a situation for which you will develop a strategy over the next weeks in this programme. You will receive feedback on it. Assignment 1: Due September 17; Assignmnet 2: Due October 8.

components: third COMPONENT

Peer- Coaching Sessions

Four Peer-Coaching Sessions

The Peer Coaching element is a confidential process through which you will work together with six colleagues to reflect on your innovation case after each webinar; to expand, refine, and build new skills; share ideas; teach one another; and solve problems from the workplace.

• Duration per session: 2 hours;
• 80% attendance required for completion

• There are 2 timeslots each day of the sessions to accommodate for time differences.
• You have only received a calendar invite for your selected timeslot.

components: third COMPONENT

Peer- Coaching Sessions

Poll

Once we have launched the poll, you will see on your screen a pop-up window with 2 polling questions. Click on the blue "Submit" button once you've finished answering the questions.

Have you ever been coached before?

Have you ever practiced coaching skills yourself?

components: third COMPONENT

Peer- Coaching Sessions

Defining Peer Coaching

What Peer Coaching is not:

What Peer Coaching is:

• A learning process;

• Future-centric: looks for actionable steps in the immediate future;

• An explorative discussion to drive improvements;

• A process facilitated by an Innovation Coach for YOU to find the answer.

• Mentoring: longer relationship on specific competence in a specific environment.

• An advisory space

components: third COMPONENT

Peer- Coaching Sessions

1ST PEER COACHING SESSION: 21 SEPT. 2023

• You will be able to share your innovation case and the feedback gained from the 1st Assignment;
• You will have your first 2-hours peer-coaching session to practice coaching skills;

• After your first Coaching session, you will create a presentation for the next peer-coaching session.

• Your innovation coach will help you with the innovation case presentation by providing guidance and feedback.

2ND PEER COACHING SESSION : 28 SEPT. 2023

3RD PEER COACHING SESSION: 12 OCT. 2023

• Draw on feedback from Assignment 2 to refine your final presentation
• Practice peer-coaching on final presentations and pitches with your colleagues.

4th PEER COACHING SESSION: 19 OCT. 2023

• In your last coaching session, you will implement your learnings and provide a final presentation, pitching your project.

components: Fourth COMPONENT

Weekly Discussion Forums

Weekly Discussion Forums

You will continue discussing challenges and emerging solutions identified before, during, or after the Webinar in a moderated forum accessible at any time, as well as share the application of tools implemented during the contextualisation weeks. You will also have the opportunity to start your own discussions on any topic you'd like to further explore.

components: Fifth COMPONENT

Weekly Readings & Resources

Weekly Readings & Resources

You will have access to a variety of UN-relevant text and multimedia resources in each of the Online Modules. You will retain access to these resources even beyond the end of the programme.

components: sixth COMPONENT

Weekly Feedback & Overall Programmatic Evaluation

Weekly Feedback & Overall Programmatic Evaluation

At the UNSSC, we highly value the feedback of our learners.That's why you will have Weekly Feedback after the Orientation and 7 Thematic Modules, as well as the opportunity to reflect on the Programme as a whole by taking the Overall Programmatic Evaluation, so that we're able to further hear from your unique perspective.

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What we encourage

Learning Activities: Suggested Weekly 'Flow'

MONDAY

1. REFERENCES

Estimated time: 30 min

• Read/watch curated, UN-relevant text and multimedia resources

TUESDAY

2. WEBINAR

Estimated time: 2 hours

• Every Tuesday from 5 September to 24 October: 14:00 - 16:00 CEST

WEDNESDAY

3. FORUM DISCUSSION

Estimated time: 30 min.

• Respond to discussion questions in an online moderated forum

THURSDAY

4. ASSIGNMENT/PEER-COACHING SESSION

Estimated time: 2 hours

• Work on your Innovation Case, and practice coaching skills.

FRIDAY

5. FEEDBACK SURVEY

Estimated time: 10 min.

• Share your opinion on the content of the Module

Keep track of the Learning Activities with the Checklist

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OBJECTIVES

Manage your time wisely and plan your learning time

Ensure that your computer is working well

Understand learning objectives, practices, and expectations

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seek help when needed

Stay organized

participate

Join discussions online and engage with your colleagues

The UNSSC Team is here to help throughout the Programme

Try as much as possible to follow the suggested weekly flow

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WHAT WE ENCOURAGE

USE OUR CHECKLIST FOR SUCCESSFUL ONLINE LEARNING

BLOCK REGULAR TIME SLOTS FOR LEARNING

FOLLOW THE WEEKLY UPDATES FROM INNOVATION@UNSSC.ORG

CONTACT US FOR SUPPORT

COMMUNICATE | COMMUNICATE | COMMUNICATE

Thought Exercise

Please share in the chat:

100 Uses​:Please share in the chat as many uses for this as you can think of.​

WHAT WE ENCOURAGE

OUT-OF-THE BOX THINKING

MULTI-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES

EXCHANGE ON PRACTICES IN YOUR COUNTRY CONTEXT (INCLUDING FAILURE!)

TIMELY ONLINE DISCUSSION

PLEASE SHARE, AND APPLY!

Any questions?

Let's Innovate!

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