Nepal Innovation Lab

Introduction

Born during Nepal Earthquake Response 2015, the Nepal Innovation Lab (NLab) aims to bring together both traditional and non-traditional actors to define some of the most pressing problems. Being one of the first of its kind in the humanitarian world, NLab aspires to provide top-notch community driven solutions to stakeholders in Nepal and beyond.

Ideas Scouting

Explore and crowdsource bold ideas within and beyond World Vision. With the use of bespoke Design Thinking approaches, the NLab maps the pressing problems and facilitates in co-creating community-driven solutions.

Innovation Journey

The NLab provides technical services to broader stakeholders for designing and implementing their unique innovation journey. It starts from mapping the problem landscape together, ideating wide range of solutions, developing and testing prototypes, and building business models for piloting.

Innovation for Impact

NLab facilitates the process of generating evidence from the pilot projects and supports in amplifying the reach of promising innovation within and beyond World Vision.

Our Products

Plastic Insulating Polyfloss for Economic Roofing (PIPER)

Reimagining plastic waste through circular approach. A recycling project to transform plastic waste into polyfloss by mobilising community actors.

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Rapid Prototyping and Scaling Workshop

An experiential learning journey for front-line humanitarian workers to playfully define problems, ideate, prototype and test bold solutions.

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Participatory Disaster Risk Assessment (PDRA)

A set of tools to map the most vulnerable households and design individual household level disaster preparedness plan.

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SIKKA

A blockchain powered digital token transfer tool to facilitate cash and voucher distribution during the time of emergency.

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KITAB Bazar

An online marketplace for supplementary reading materials - with over 1000 community schools already benefitting from the platform.

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Ramailo Yatra

An immersive experience for children through scenario-based strategy boardgame on child protection issues.

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Journey

2D role-playing mobile game that uncovers deep-seated social and cultural beliefs, and the respective responses to each of them.

Digital Manufacturing

Exploring use of 3D printing technologies to deliver humanitarian aid efficiently.

Stories of Innovation

There is a story behind the podcast Stories of Innovation itself - whenever we think about innovation, we tend to think about cool gadgets, the latest technologies and apps coming from places like Silicon Valley, London, Frankfurt, Singapore, Tokyo and we find so many coverages about their founders in mainstream media and tech websites. But... there are so many powerful, inspiring, and life-changing innovations happening in unusual places - the global south and the innovators are making the real change! So, the NLab team bring you stories of inspiring innovators, enablers, investors, and thought-leaders from different cultures and contexts in the space of Social Innovation.