The long, winding road of our Innovation Fellowship led us to Cape Town and the AfricaCom conference, the largest meeting [...]

Yahya Hassune, doesn’t take no for an answer, quite fortunately for UNHCR. About two years ago, Hassune was working [...]

Project Background The majority of refugees and asylum seekers in Costa Rica live in urban settings. Because urban refugees are [...]

Have you ever heard of the concept “the wisdom of the crowd”? It’s the idea that the collective opinion [...]

When some people hear the word ‘refugee’, the first images that may come to mind are of boats in the [...]

There are many ways to arrange the proverbial “last mile” before relief reaches people. Since 2014, UNHCR has been testing software [...]

I’ve always believed that managing innovative projects is like managing chaos. A lot of it.  As part of our [...]

Innovation, in the humanitarian realm, is about finding sustainable and dignified solutions to the most pressing issues that affect the [...]

The media has been actively covering UNHCR’s recently released Annual Global Trends Report which highlighted the insane fact that [...]

Across the global development sector, the idea of opening up data and becoming more transparent is taking hold. One might [...]