UNHCR Innovation

@UNHCRInnovation

We innovate with and for refugees.

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jan 3

    Our Year in Review: Whilst tech continued to advance, we refocused our efforts to the future. Experimentation, research, and refugee voices were central to the new direction. We also killed our Innovation Labs. Discover more in our new report:

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  2. 8 hours ago

    "We predict that mission-driven organizations will initially adopt AI to build organizational capacity—improving effectiveness and sustainability by strengthening fundraising, marketing, administration, and other skills, processes, and resources."

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  3. 13 hours ago

    We are not here to argue against rules – we concretely believe that UNHCR needs guidelines, standards, and order. But we do believe that when these rules have turned into clear bureaucracy, we should seize the opportunities to improve them.

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  4. Retweeted
    Jun 20

    Excellent piece from of in blog, sharing best practices and recs for improved measurement of development innovations, including producing -specific impact uniquely tailored to the .

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    Jun 21

    (A great read on the journey) metrics for human development: what have we learned? 's & Malika Bhandarkar guest blog at

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  6. 19 hours ago

    Whichever side of the fence you might be on, there remains an opportunity in seeing how can operate in place of a human to undertake certain simple tasks.

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  7. Jun 21

    "In general, humanitarian and data experts do not speak the same language; they do not share a common vocabulary or context, and often cannot align their goals. This challenge is not a new one. And for me has become a sort of “déjà vu.”

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  8. Jun 21

    If we're going to make humanitarian conferences work, the challenges needed to be grounded in the needs of the people they affect – and they need to be part of it. From UNHCR's :

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  9. Jun 21

    We need to develop a better understanding of what "cultural change" or better "capacity" means when it comes to innovating in large institutions.

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    Jun 20

    [New post on measuring impact] How to design innovation metrics for sustainable human development; for incremental and transformative innovation? Thanks for hosting this post!

    "From day one, we realized that there is no universal set of metrics that is applicable to measure the impact of innovation investments across UNDP’s thematic areas." A must read from & on measuring innovation.
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  11. Retweeted
    Jun 20

    As travel across borders, they are faced with increasing protection risks. Using from social media can help monitor protection issues & the safe access to asylum of and :

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  12. Retweeted
    Jun 19

    “It’s time to do things differently.” message from UN Filippo Grandi.

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  13. Jun 19

    "From day one, we realized that there is no universal set of metrics that is applicable to measure the impact of innovation investments across UNDP’s thematic areas." A must read from & on measuring innovation.

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  14. Jun 19

    The title says it all. You either get this, or you’re pushing tech and getting your bosses to be excited about products with little success in sustainability, and missing opportunities to innovate processes and approaches.

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  15. Retweeted
    Jun 18

    The world’s refugees need all the help they can get. Here are 7 ways that businesses can support them.

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  16. Jun 19

    We're hiring an Associate Connectivity Officer based out of Nairobi. Think you would be a good fit? Apply by 27 June and learn more about the role here:

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  17. Jun 18

    "The faces of humanitarian innovation i.e. the number ones and number twos in the media - are usually white men. This is the current master narrative and we want to help change it."

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  18. Jun 18

    We need to be asking refugees directly what their needs are, and what the systems that they trust are, rather than operating in a universe where we decide this for them.

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  19. Jun 18

    No, this is not a token ‘give-a-camera-to-a-refugee-project’. Technical capacity and technical innovation continue to suffer a blind-spot of not being co-created with youth. Learn more from :

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  20. Retweeted
    Jun 8

    Do you have a fresh idea, new approach or project that will improve the way we help and protect refugees and others who have been forced to flee? Apply for a Innovation Award here

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  21. Retweeted
    Jun 12

    Delighted to contribute to the discourse on and kicked off by in this interview with

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