The Emergency Lab’s First Words: Translation Cards During our first scoping mission to fYR Macedonia late last year, the Emergency Lab identified the complexity of working in multiple languages as a key challenge. Ensuring that we share accurate information with...
Timothy Sakala saw a problem, and he saw a solution. It was the middle he wasn’t so sure about. As a fairly new Livelihoods Officer with UNHCR’s Zambia operation, Timothy had noticed during the previous 18 months that refugees were having major difficulties finding...
What is the Emergency Lab? Some of the greatest opportunities can also be quite daunting, can’t they? This is certainly the feeling I had when I realised that I was to be part of a new Emergency Lab that was being set up inside UNHCR. The Innovation Unit, along with...
Putting refugees at the heart of local shelter design. Yusif Sidik’s vision of an efficient shelter program involves no sophisticated design, innovative material, or complex logistics. It’s about putting refugees in charge of the process, using locally-sourced...
Want to learn more about bottom-up innovation? Take a look at the Humanitarian Innovation Jam 2016 on Bottom-up Innovation. Local Challenges. Local Solutions. Innovation in Africa is increasingly in the international limelight. The iHub in Kenya is a technology hub...
The long, winding road of our Innovation Fellowship led us to Cape Town and the AfricaCom conference, the largest meeting of telecom operators in Africa. After many hours of brainstorming, funneling ideas, researching, reaching out to experts, and prototyping, our...
