Crowds of young men around a station provided by UNHCR for charging mobile telephones at Vinojug Reception Center for refugees and migrants. The center is a kilometer along a dirt track from the Greek border. After registration, refugees and migrants must wait for trains to take them to the Serbian border, a wait that is often longer than the journey itself, which takes roughly three hours. Thousands pass through the center every day. ; More than 643,000 refugees and migrants arrived in Europe via the Mediterranean sea this year, including 502,500 in Greece only. Many of the refugees and migrants are desperate to move quickly onwards to Western Europe, fearing that borders ahead of them will close. As of Tuesday morning, there were more than 27,500 people on the Aegean Islands, either awaiting registration or onward transport to the mainland, and 5,000 new arrivals were recorded every day.

10 defining principles of radically open partnerships

By John Warnes, Emergency Lab Technology Specialist and Jeff Wishnie, Former Senior Director of Program Technology for Mercy Corps, July 28, 2016

At the World Humanitarian Summit in May, Google, Mercy Corps, UNHCR Innovation and ThoughtWorks were lucky enough to win an [...]

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UNHCR Emergency Lab Manager sits with a young refugee boy in Malawi.

Whose innovation is it anyway?

By Katie Drew, July 26, 2016

Technical Top Trumps Having never worked with an innovation unit -let alone been in an innovation ‘Lab’ before-it’s fair [...]

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Sustainable Development Goals Humanitarian Innovators

How the SDGs change the role of humanitarian innovation

By Dan McClure, December 30, 2015

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

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IKEA-donated Solar lights turn as night falls throughout in Azraq Refugee Camp, Al Azraq, Jordan.

5 lessons learned from rolling out joint innovative energy projects

By Amare Gebre Egziabher, December 1, 2015

This is an excerpt from UNHCR’s recently released report: Innovation at UNHCR 2014. This report highlights and showcases some of [...]

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Young refugee girls study next to a solar lamp.

How to set up and transition an innovation lab: lessons learned

By Olivier Delarue and Chris Earney, November 24, 2015

This is an excerpt from UNHCR’s recently released report: Innovation at UNHCR 2014. This report highlights and showcases some of [...]

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Children at Primary school 1 in UNHCR Mole Refugee Camp. The camp has two primary schools and educates around 1300 students.

How do you measure innovation in refugee education initiatives?

By Jacqueline Strecker, November 10, 2015

This is an excerpt from UNHCR’s recently released report: Innovation at UNHCR 2014. This report highlights and showcases some of [...]

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Testing of the Better Shelter Unit in Dollo Ado, Ethiopia

5 lessons learned from rolling out joint innovative shelter projects

By Ammar Al-Mahdawi, October 23, 2015

This is an excerpt from UNHCR’s recently released report: Innovation at UNHCR 2014. This report highlights and showcases some of [...]

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Photo of refugees being trained for the Liter of Light program in Dollo Ado, Ethiopia with UNHCR innovation lab.

What is an innovation lab?

By Chris Earney, October 8, 2015

This is an excerpt from UNHCR’s recently released report: Innovation at UNHCR 2014. This report highlights and showcases some of [...]

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Refugee camp supported by UNHCR in Uganda

3 ways refugee innovation is being supported in Uganda

By Alexander Betts, Louise Bloom and Nina Weaver, September 9, 2015

This is an excerpt from the Humanitarian Innovation Project’s recently released report: Refugee Innovation: Humanitarian innovation that starts with [...]

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Testing of the ReliefLink program Dollo Ado, Ethiopia.

Managing an innovation lab starts with finding the right progress reporting tool

By Rebeca Moreno Jimenez, September 3, 2015

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

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