Global Knowledge Initiative

Labs:GKIs Lab Programs are intentionally designed to bring together diverse stakeholders to solve problems, innovate, drive the alignment of interests, broker new partnerships, and set a collaborative course for strategy design that leads to lasting change. Example projects:CCIR : GKI designed and managed the Caribbean Corporate Investment Initiative (CCIR) program, building collaboration opportunities for governments, businesses, and communities across the Caribbean, to come together to identify, develop and scale innovative, sustainable solutions to systemic challenges around disaster resilience. GKI facilitated private sector and humanitarian actors across the Eastern Caribbean archipelago to collectively map the dynamics of the system, clarify the future state envisioned, and identified strategic opportunities for systems transformation and launch 2 critical initiatives; strengthening a network coalition to foster long-term, value-driven partnerships between the private sector and humanitarian actors, and a resource coordination platform to harness donations and aid resources from the private sector to actors in the field. AI4R: Accelerating Innovation for Resilience (AI4R) designed and managed by GKI, is a systems-informed, stakeholder-led, action-oriented program that brings diverse actors together to identify, develop and scale innovative, sustainable solutions to strengthen the humanitarian innovation ecosystem around disaster response and resilience. AI4Resilience works in accompaniment with a broad range of potential innovation ecosystems stakeholders such as government agencies, humanitarian organizations innovation departments, corporate partners, entrepreneurship incubators, accelerators, and a broad range of investors and activates these intermediaries through a highly participatory incentive challenge, designed to support local innovation, leadership, and collaboration around solutions to emerge while building connective tissue across the network. The program was piloted in Bangladesh.