1. There is a huge potential for green mobility in Kathmandu due to rising …

Innovation methods

Data sources

SDG(s)

Sustainable Development Goal(s)

7Affordable and clean energy

11Sustainable cities and communities

13Climate action

Disclaimer:

Please be aware that the content herein has not been peer reviewed. It consists of personal reflections, insights, and learnings of the contributor(s). It may not be exhaustive, nor does it aim to be authoritative knowledge.

Learnings on your challenge

What are the top 5 key insights you generated about your frontier challenge during this Action Learning Plan?

1. There is a huge potential for green mobility in Kathmandu due to rising pressure or Air Pollution in metropolitan cities of Nepal. 2. Qualitative research proved very effective in terms of getting insights from the target segment. 3. Incentivizing people for using green alternatives might not be a permanent fix for decreasing people's carbon footprint. 4. The government and the private sector needs to jointly develop sustainable green mobility plans.

Please paste the link(s) to the blog(s) that articulate the learnings on your frontier challenge.

https://www.np.undp.org/content/nepal/en/home/blog/2021/Aspirations-and-Inspirations-for-Sustainable-Dvt-Acc-Lab-Nepal-in-the-2nd-year.html

Did you experience any barriers or bottlenecks when impacting the system, working on your frontier challenge respectively?

Lack of fundamental knowledge about green mobility and its potential needs to be imparted to both public and the private sector in a manner that is palatable to them. Technical terms and green jargons proved to be ineffective when promoting green mobility and climate awareness.

For this frontier challenge, how much of your time did you dedicate to the stages in the learning cycle? Please make sure that your answers adds up to 100%.

Sense

25%

Explore

25%

Test

25%

Grow

25%

Data and Methods

Relating to your types of data, why did you chose these? What gaps in available data were these addressing?

Series of interactive sessions helped us in developing the MVP of green mobility.

Why was it necessary to apply the above innovation method on your frontier challenge? How did these help you to unpack the system?

These methods helped us in designing and experimenting trials in a controlled environment and analyze the hit as well as misses of the approach.

Partners

If applicable, what civil society organisations did you actually work with and what did you do with them?

If applicable, what academic partners (and related institutions) did you actually work with and what did you do with them?

If applicable, what private sector partners did you actually work with and what did you do with them?

We partnered with Green coins and Aloi for designing the digital portal and the marketing plan of green mobility products.

If applicable, what government partners (and related institutions) did you actually work with and what did you do with them?

Relating to your answers above: who of the partners listed were new and unusual partners for UNDP, and what made them special?

If applicable, which UN internal partners did you actually work with and what did you do with them?

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Bonus question: How did the interplay of innovation methods, new forms of data and unusual partners enable you to learn & generate insights, that otherwise you would have not been able to achieve?

Please upload any further supporting evidence / documents / data you have produced on your frontier challenge that showcase your learnings.

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