Universities & Councils Network on Innovation for Inclusive Development-SEA

Universities & Councils Network on Innovation for Inclusive Development-SEA UNIID-SEA works with universities and research councils in Southeast Asia to promote and support innovation for inclusive development (IID).

The Universities and Councils Network on Innovation for Inclusive Development (UNIID-SEA) was initially implemented as a project managed by the Ateneo School of Government (ASoG), in collaboration with the National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP), and is supported by Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC). Over the past three years, the project has grown into a full-f

ledged network with established partnerships among 12 academic and research institutions, and more than 100 individual Fellows -- professors, researchers, administrators, and development practitioners -- across nine countries in Southeast Asia. These institutions and fellows are engaged in various programs aimed at building knowledge and capacities, and facilitating interoperability and collective impact for IID. Innovation for inclusive development (IID) is understood as "innovation that reduces poverty and enables all groups of people, especially the poor and vulnerable, to participate in decision-making, create and actualize opportunities, and equitably share the benefits of development" (IID Program Prospectus, 2011).

24/05/2026
“British Sikh engineer, Navjot Sawhney gave up his lucrative career to go and work in India, to use his skills to help s...
12/11/2025

“British Sikh engineer, Navjot Sawhney gave up his lucrative career to go and work in India, to use his skills to help solve problems for rural communities. While there, he became fascinated with the problems his neighbour, Divya, was facing while handwashing clothes, sometimes for up to three hours a day.

Broadcaster and journalist Nkem Ifejika finds out how Nav promised to design a hand crank, off-grid washing machine for his neighbour, to help her avoid the sore joints, aching limbs, and irritated skin she got from her daily wash.

Within two years of coming up with the idea, Nav had set up his own company, The Washing Machine Project, and trialled his first machine in a refugee camp in Iraq. From that first trip, over five years ago, the project has now provided nearly a thousand machines, free to the users in poorer communities and refugee camps, in eleven countries around the world.”

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