Earlier this year, Save the Children appointed its first chief innovation officer, in a conscious effort to modernize and find better ways of doing things.
It may be new ground for the NGO, but it’s not a new area for Maggie Korde, who’s taken on the role. She was already experimenting with how innovation could be used to improve the lives of children during her five years as the organization’s country officer for Rwanda and Burundi.
Now, her main task will be to scale the impact of existing innovations and to continue building on what she describes as Save the Children’s legacy of innovation, which in recent years has seen it develop projects pioneering new ways of working across the African continent.