Enough is enough: Undernutrition contributes to the death of 3 million children under the age of 5 years every year.
It is a scandal: 800 million people in the world still do not have enough food to lead a healthy and active life.
We believe that innovation is the key to unlock new promising ideas to combat hunger and social injustice.
Our Focus
Zero Hunger can be achieved by 2030 if:
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Governments and the international community do significantly more to guarantee rights and essential public services for everyone. This includes specifically gender, land and labour rights as well as public services related to health, nutrition, and basic benefits for the most vulnerable groups.
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Together we innovate, transfer and scale solutions that help guaranteeing such rights and improve the access, quality and accountability of public services.
Challenges to you
Challenge 1: How might we support rural women and their families to access public services that truly help them escape hunger and injustice?​
Solutions that...
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Support vulnerable women improving their awareness, access and quality of services and help ensuring their rights at the local level
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Improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability of state services
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Provide radical alternatives to current models of service delivery
Challenge 2: How might we support social activists and concerned citizens to become more powerful in combating hunger and injustice?
Solutions that...
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Magnify the voice of concerned citizens, social activists and their constituency to influence state policies at all levels
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Provide radical and effective alternatives to existing advocacy or campaign methods
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Support the international community in developing and enforcing global standards related to hunger and injustice
We look for
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Creative people that have a passion for Zero Hunger and Social Justice
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Doers, that can take ideas forward
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Visionaries with different skills and from different backgrounds - from smaller and larger Civil Society organisations, from Businesses and State actors
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Innovators with great ideas relevant to the challenge in Africa and Asia
What awaits you
Innovation at Civil Society Academy
Welthungerhilfe in 2014, we know the transformative power of ideas and what it takes to bring them to life. Over the years we have also developed a strong reputation for strengthening and deepening local participative social innovation processes and championing the role of the third sector in radical system transformation discourses.
We champion and advocate for a just and equal world, and spend all our time harnessing the superpower abilities of social pioneers, innovators and civil society leaders to fast track radical system transformation. Being a fast growing social start-up ourselves initiated by