Action Contre la Faim (Action Against Hunger) is a global humanitarian organisation committed to ending hunger worldwide. Operating in 56 countries with 9,000 staff members, ACF delivers emergency relief, nutrition programmes, and sustainable solutions combating food insecurity. ACF's Emergency Readiness and Response Unit aims to enhance organisational capacity to respond to humanitarian crises through innovative training and simulation exercises, partnering with technology organisations to advance emergency preparedness capabilities.
Collaboration Focus
- Humanitarian field operations technology
- Offline-first procedural guidance systems
- Crisis response coordination tools
- Data management for vulnerable populations
- Immersive training and simulation platforms
Joint Initiatives
Nuwa developed and validated with Action Contre la Faim on:
- XRisis Humanitarian Emergency Training Platform: Nuwa developed immersive simulation platform integrating CORTEX2 enabling technologies (Alcatel Lucent's Rainbow CPaaS, DFKI VCAA, CEA CoVA, Linagora, ...) validated with ACF's Emergency Readiness and Response Unit and emergency roster personnel through comprehensive May 2025 Paris workshop generating quantified outcomes (59% usability, 70% added value, 66% satisfaction) and qualitative feedback informing commercial SimExBuilder platform evolution
- SimExBuilder Commercial Platform Development: Service Level Agreement framework targeting Q2 2028 commercial launch providing ACF with continued access to refined platform capabilities for global emergency preparedness training across country office network
- UPAS Platform validation in humanitarian field operations
- Offline-capable procedural guidance for nutrition programmes
- Privacy-first data management for beneficiary protection
Impact
ACF partnership provides authentic operational validation contexts for Nuwa's platforms in crisis environments, informing technology design with field practitioner expertise whilst enabling ACF to access validated tools improving operational effectiveness. Through XRisis collaboration, ACF contributed domain expertise including Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan methodologies, Standard Operating Procedures, simulation exercise scenario development, and emergency roster personnel participation in rigorous validation generating evidence base for commercial platform deployment. The partnership evolved from initial technology validation to ongoing commercial relationship through Service Level Agreement discussions, demonstrating sustained value recognition supporting platform evolution from research demonstration to operational training delivery serving ACF's strategic objective of maintaining 80% of country offices with current emergency preparedness plans through accessible cost-effective training delivery.