Monday 3 May, 2021 Blog | blog | Disaster response | Innovation fund and grants | Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation | South Africa | Sub-Saharan Africa The GSMA Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation Fund aims to promote innovation in the use of mobile technology to address humanitarian challenges. The first round of the Fund focused on providing support to help to test or scale innovative ideas which support responses to natural disasters and humanitarian emergencies. This blog post shares three key lessons from our project with Lumkani in partnership with Hollard Insurance and Islamic Relief South Africa: The GSMA provided grant funding to Lumkani to enable them to install mobile-internet-of-things enabled fire sensors inside homes in informal settlements across South Africa at zero-cost to users. The alarms mitigate fire risk through a networked alarm which provides live monitoring and SMS alerts to residents and their neighbours allowing instant notification of fire events and triggering a swift community response.