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

Want to learn more about bottom-up innovation? Take a look at the Humanitarian Innovation Jam 2016 on Bottom-up Innovation. Local Challenges. [...]

In late 2014 UNHCR Innovation launched its fifth UNHCR Ideas challenge which asked: “How can we support communities and educators to [...]

The challenge is obscured by ‘complexity’ “It’s like no other emergency” or “there are huge challenges, like nowhere I’[...]

UNHCR’s Energy Lab – a collaboration between UNHCR’s Energy & Environment and Innovation units recently ran a Swiss Development [...]

2015 was a hard year to digest. Now every 1 in 122 humans is either a refugee, internally displaced, or seeking asylum. But [...]

In the fanfare surrounding the release of the Sustainable Development Goals it may be easy to miss a shift in [...]

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

Less than a month ago I attended the World Humanitarian Summit Global Consultation in Geneva. Beyond all the long panel [...]

Let’s start with what it isn’t. A pilot. Pilots have historically been the default method used in the [...]