A Bangladeshi farmer reads a mobile forecast beside a paddy field beneath a monsoon sky.

2027/2028Climate Information Services

Forecast to Field

Information is only an innovation once it reaches a hand that can use it.

A Global South platform connecting climate information, community knowledge and practical innovation.

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FIF at a glance

When problem-solvers connect

FIF creates the conditions for practitioners, innovators and institutions to examine what works, challenge assumptions and carry grounded ideas further.

Established: 2013
Editions completed: Eight
Ideas originate here and travel outward: Global South
An initiative of: BRAC Social Innovation Lab

One platform, three connected programmes

Ideas become impact

The challenge, fellowship and forum form one sequence. Each programme prepares people and ideas for the next.

University students debate an idea beside a whiteboard.

The invitation

Innovation Challenge

Where young teams turn urgent problems into testable solutions.

Timeline to be announced

A Bangladeshi woman innovator at an agricultural technology site.

The proof

Fellowship Programme

Where Global South innovators develop their voices, ideas and reach.

Applications to be announced

Bangladeshi practitioners listening during a working session.

The authority

Frugal Innovation Forum

Where evidence, experience and practical solutions converge.

Registration to be announced

Climate Information Services

Climate information that reaches people

Climate data becomes useful when it arrives in time, in context and through a channel that supports a real decision.

Two farmers examine a rice plot and phone advisory together.

Agriculture and livelihoods

The last-mile challenge: The forecast arrives in a format and a language the farmer cannot act on.
What useful could look like: Advisories built with farmers, timed to the decisions they actually make.

A woman operates a coastal community water point.

Water security

The last-mile challenge: Salinity and supply data exist at district level, while decisions are made household by household.
What useful could look like: Local information that reaches the person filling the container.

Health

The last-mile challenge: Heat and disease warnings rarely travel the last mile to frontline health workers.
What useful could look like: Early signals in the hands of the people who visit the households.

Smallholder farmers discuss a document together.

Insurance and financial resilience

The last-mile challenge: Products designed without the people who carry the risk.
What useful could look like: Cover that pays out on evidence people trust.

Forecast to Field

From signal to action

The pathway is not a broadcast. At every stage, evidence meets interpretation, access and local judgment.

01
Signal
Observe the climate pattern that could alter a livelihood.
02
Interpretation
Translate data through local experience, language and context.
03
Access
Move useful guidance through channels people already trust.
04
Decision
Connect the information to a choice that must be made now.
05
Action
Put the decision to work in a field, home, clinic or enterprise.
06
Impact
Learn what changed, for whom, and what should travel further.

Upcoming programme journey

What comes next?

The sequence is set. Dates, applications and participation details will be published after confirmation.

01
Innovation Challenge
Innovation Challenge launch
Upcoming
02
Innovation Challenge
University roadshows
In development
03
Innovation Challenge
Application and selection
Timeline to be announced
04
Fellowship Programme
Fellowship cohort
To be announced
05
Fellowship Programme
Mentorship and field validation
In development
06
Connected programmes
Finalist and Fellow showcase
Timeline to be announced
07
Frugal Innovation Forum
Residential forum
To be announced
08
Frugal Innovation Forum
Field visit
To be announced
09
Frugal Innovation Forum
Knowledge dissemination
In development

Past editions

Lessons from eight editions

FIF has convened critical conversations since 2013. Verified archive materials will be added as source records are confirmed.