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Humanitarian Action Challenge

Humanitarian Action Challenge
The winners are announced!

The Humanitarian Action Challenge aims to stimulate cooperation between business (including start-ups) and NGOs in order to develop innovative technological solutions for peace, justice, and humanitarian action. On 4 September 2018, the winners of the challenge are announced.
The winners

DCHI Challenge:

How might we empower those affected by humanitarian crisis in the design of innovative humanitarian solutions, thereby tapping into the great human potential available and increasing the overall impact and effectiveness of humanitarian aid?

. HumanSurge B.V. / Support to Life (STL)

. PNGK B.V. / Stichting Movement on the Ground

WFP Challenge

How can WFP make better use of the vast amount of unstructured data to understand the needs of hungry people in the world?

. PNGK B.V. / Translators without Borders

. CrowdSense B.V. / El Karama (Vost)

IOM Challenge

How can enhanced needs mapping and analysis help to improve capacity and resource planning in providing assistance to displaced populations and migrants?

. PNGK B.V. / Karma Flights Foundation Nepal

. Stichting Elva / Notilyze B.V.

The prize

The winning proposals will be granted € 36.800 funding, and a mentoring program provided by HumanityX in The Hague Humanity Hub.

Members of the jury

DCHI: David Ott – Humanitarian innovator – independent jury member as representative of DCHI

WFP: Lena Hohfeld together with Angie Lee

IOM: Robert Trigwell together with Rizki Muhammad

As a representative of the donor community – the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Frido Herinckx together with Bjorn Hoffman

As a representative from the corporate and tech world- the Next Web: Pieter Paul van Oerle

Read all about the 3 challenges:

DCHI Challenge

The Dutch Coalition for Humanitarian Innovation (DCHI) challenges you to collaborate on empowering those affected by humanitarian crisis in the design of innovative solutions by using data and digitalization.


Challenge: Capitalizing on digitalization as means of empowerment.


How might we empower those affected by humanitarian crisis in the design of innovative humanitarian solutions, thereby tapping into the great human potential available and increasing the overall impact and effectiveness of humanitarian aid?

IOM Challenge

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) challenges you to collaborate on optimizing humanitarian analytical outputs for the design and planning of development initiatives


Challenge: Towards enhanced needs mapping for improved capacity and resource planning.


How can enhanced needs mapping and analysis help to improve capacity and resource planning in providing assistance to displaced populations and migrants?

WFP Challenge

The World Food Programme (WFP) challenges you to collaborate on harnessing innovative technologies and analytics to better understand the needs of the 815 million hungry people world wide


Challenge: Towards “Zero Hunger”


How can WFP make better use of the vast amount of unstructured data to understand the needs of hungry people in the world?
How can WFP integrate new tools to improve the way it processes and collects data, thereby allowing it to better listen to the voices of the millions of people living in vulnerable communities to inform its operations?