19/10/2018
The Alternative Finance Lab, together with UNDP Panama, organized sessions to learn about advances in innovation with practical cases and thus be able to exchange with organizations that are already promoting blockchain, fintech, and crowdfunding initiatives.
23/07/2018
We've led 35 crowdfunding campaigns at UNDP since 2015 and mobilized US$1.2 million. Here's our take-away.
10/07/2018
UNDP Istanbul Hub and Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra put their heads together and thought about the challenges around impact bonds-what comes to preventing and solving wicked societal problems, the core idea, and the benefit of impact bonds.
23/05/2018
Considering that the 21st century is an urban one, key attributes of our cities should be used as assets to harness urban development scenarios, primarily density and diversity. Crowd urbanism serves as a key bottom-up initiative, which gives tools to all city members to co-steer local development.
30/04/2018
UNDP Crowdfunding Academy has the first successful crowdfunding campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina by the "Talas" magazine team. Let's dive into Talas magazine's story and the first Global UNDP Crowdfunding Academy in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
16/02/2018
Argan trees are, in many cases, the only income for local indigenous women. However, most of them lack cash for expanding their businesses beyond just simple collecting nuts as conservative funding is not easily assessable for local cooperatives and farmers. Crowdfunding can help in bringing the necessary funds to Argan oil cooperatives and make their business more sustainable.
03/11/2017
Displaced people often struggle with identity loss. Having the digital footprint of blockchain can help refugee families in transit and those of us in the humanitarian arena to get a better sense of what displaced people want. This way, we could get better at tailoring our toolkits to assist them.
18/07/2017
UNDP Indonesia experiments with innovative and alternative financing models to tackle development challenges effectively. Here are the ten things that helped their crowdfunding campaign raise 350 million rupiahs (nearly $27,000) to build a solar-powered water pump in one of the country's driest region of East Sumba.
18/07/2017
The following piece was first published on the AltFinLab blog and was originally published on July 18, 2017. Crowdfunding Academy in Ukraine is a three months […]