Summary of evaluation evidence: WFP’s work on innovation

As humanitarian needs rise and operational environments grow more volatile and complex, WFP’s capacity to experiment, learn, and scale new solutions has become central to achieving its mandate. Accordingly, innovation is a key enabler in the organization’s 2026–2029 strategic plan.

Over the last decade, innovation has become more significant to WFP’s value proposition as reflected in the 2015 launch of the WFP “innovation accelerator” in Munich and senior leadership’s push to use innovation to accelerate progress toward SDG2 more efficiently.

Following the launch of the WFP Innovation Strategy 2026–2028, this summary of evaluation evidence examines the extent to which WFP has advanced this agenda in the past years and identifies success factors.