Field Ready's Technical Lead, Brynmor John, recently presented Field Ready's work alongside UKAID in sunny Scotland at the Royal Highland Show 2019. We asked Bryn some questions: What did you get up to in Scotland? I connected with lots of interesting people, mainly the general public but also DFID (UKAid) staff members, UK military, Edinburgh University students and some sheep, in the finest tradition of agricultural shows in the UK. I mainly demonstrated the 3D printer and

Our earlier work in designing, making and distributing soap that encourages children to wash there hands was a definitive success. Last year, our partners Save the Children and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, with funding from the Humanitarian Innovation Fund, carried out research in Iraq that demonstrated the effectiveness of this approach in what was called the Hidden Incentives project. More information about this available here, here and here. Since th

After spending a fun-filled week with our child-designers, we had a set of 12 animals to be placed inside different combinations of transparent soap, and it was time for production. The original plan had been to carry two 3D printers with us into Iraq, but at the last minute, additional restrictions due to the closure of Kurdistan’s international airspace made that impossible, and a plan B was born. Field Ready has a wide network of makers in different locations, and with add

After spending a fun-filled week with our "child designers" (see here), we set up 12 animals to be placed inside different combinations of transparent soap and we began production. The orignal plan had been to carry two 3D printers with us into Iraq, but at the last minute, additional restrictions due to the closure of Kurdistan’s international airspace made that impossible, and plan B was born. Field Ready has a wide network of makers in different locations, and with additio

Will having a toy inside a soap help encourage children to wash their hands? Instinctively, it may seem a likely hit but a great on paper can fail when it's tried the real world. Careful planning and on-the-ground testing are essential. With a small grant from the Humanitarian Innovation Fund, Field Ready joined forces with Save the Children and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), to measure actual impact in a trial in a camp for displaced persons in N