Stories of Innovation World Vision International Nepal

In the final episode of Stories of Innovation, Janes shares his experience in leading innovation in development context. He shares that every innovation cannot be scalable hence organizations need to be strategic in terms of how to scale and make it simple yet impactful.



Janes is Country Director of World Vision Cambodia and former National Director at World Vision International (WVI) Nepal. He has proven experience in building and facilitating coalitions of non-government organisations. During his leadership at WVI Nepal, he provided strategic direction to expand the works of Nepal Innovation Lab and foster the culture of innovation within and beyond WVI Nepal.



Know more about Janes at:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/janes-imanuel-ginting-20b845b

Twitter: https://twitter.com/worldvisionkh




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In this episode of Stories of Innovation, Nishant Das and Katrin Calledo dwells upon fostering innovations in a fragile setting and their unique experiences of local eco-system mapping to spotlight Somalia in the global innovation map. 

Nishant from Somali Response Innovation Lab shares his experiences around partnering with both traditional and non-traditional actors to stimulate innovation processes in such a challenging yet unique settings. Similarly, Katrin from Start-Up Blink provides insight around the process of mapping different eco-system across the world and how countries and cities are ranked. Both share their stories of unique collaborative efforts around eco-system mapping that resulted Somalia being ranked as the Top 100 Most Innovative Country for Start-Ups debuting at the 95th position in 2019 - providing a completely different picture of Somalia.

Nishant Das is Chief of Party at Somali Resilience Program (SomREP), a consortium hosted under World Vision Somalia. By academic background, he is an Industrial Designer with an MBA in Economic Development who transitioned to the humanitarian sector, working across North America, Asia, the Pacific and Africa. He is the former Somali Response Innovation Lab Lead and now spearheads the SomREP, a multi-NGO consortium that hosts Response Innovation Lab in Somalia.

Katrin Calledo is the Behavioral Economist with a demonstrated history of working in digital marketing and start-up companies. She is currently working as the Partnerships Manager and Product Manager at StartupBlink, a global organisation that ranks start-up eco-system around the world.



Know more about Nishant and Katrin at:

Nishant: https://so.linkedin.com/in/nishant-das-b1a609179

Katrin: https://fr.linkedin.com/in/calledo-katrin 



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In this episode of Stories of Innovation, Andrew Lamb shares his experience from incubating Field Ready at Nepal Innovation Lab to scaling its impact in some of the complex humanitarian response settings. 

He portrays the need of decentralizing the global supply chain so that the relief products are cheaper, efficient, and faster. In addition, he shares his vision on expansion of 3D printing beyond the enthusiast circle and how this will change the world we live in.

Andrew is the founder of Engineers without Borders and Internet of Production Alliance. He is also a Shuttleworth Fellow focusing on open approaches to Massive Small Manufacturing – the concept of complementing innovative local manufacturing to decentralize global supply chain so that the people in the community feel empowered and the global technologies are localised. He lives in London and love LEGOs. 

Know more about Andrew at

LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/andrew-lamb

Twitter: https://twitter.com/andrewlamb 



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In this episode of Stories of Innovation, Max Vieille shares how Response Innovation Lab (RIL) fosters innovation in humanitarian system by working as a matchmaker between response implementers and local innovators.   

The episode highlights how RIL is working on to strengthen response-level humanitarian innovation ecosystems to be more inclusive, collaborative, and effective.  Max Vieille currently leads the Global Response Innovation Lab initiative, a collaboration of leading humanitarian NGOs that operates a network of field-based innovation support platforms.   

Prior to helping found RIL, he worked in various capacities for a number of humanitarian and development organizations and projects, including AIDSRelief, UNICEF and Save the Children, with extensive experience in the Caribbean and East & Southern Africa. His areas of expertise include humanitarian response management, M&E, strategic planning, Disaster Risk Reduction and information systems.  

Know more about Max at  

LinkedIn: https://fr.linkedin.com/in/max-vieille-89101710    



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In this episode of Stories of Innovation, Suman Shakya shares his experiences about how problem-solving approach can be critical part in enabling innovation. He also expounds upon how SmartPaani come into existence to solve drinking water problem by harvesting rain water.  

Suman Shakya is an entrepreneur, consultant, and certified trainer. Since 1995, he has been involved in multiple entrepreneurial ventures and as an adjunct faculty of marketing and strategy.  Suman is the founder of Tangent Waves, an action learning consulting, facilitation and training company. He is the Co-founder of SmartPaani, Rooster Logic, Nepal Entrepreneurs' Hub; Co-Chair of Startup & Innovation Committee, Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industries; Founder Board member, Nepal Marketing Association of Nepal; and District 41 Program Quality Director, Toastmasters International (2022-23).  

Know more about Suman at  

LinkedIn: https://np.linkedin.com/in/sumanshakya052006   

Twitter: https://twitter.com/sushak   



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Sepideh Keyvanshad has been serving as Mission Director for USAID/Nepal since August 2020. She has worked within the US Government in a variety of roles, including the Department of State and the National Security Council, and as a Foreign Service Officer with USAID since 2000. She also served as Senior Advisor for Assistance at the State Department Office of the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Program Manager Lead for State/USAID Redesign, and Director for International Economic Affairs for Afghanistan and Pakistan at the National Security Council to name few.

In this episode of Story of Innovation, Sepideh shares her experience on how bringing people from different background into a meaningful conversation fosters innovation. She also highlights some powerful innovation practices that she has come across whilst leading the USAID works in Nepal.

Know more about Sepideh at:

LinkedIn: https://np.linkedin.com/in/sepideh-k-4100001

Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/sepidehdc 



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