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Listen to innovate: the need to hear the voices of women
How we can all make concrete changes to improve gender equality in humanitarian innovation. Effective innovation requires diversity of...
read moreBridging the gap between human experience
Rich Wiles’s intimate, evocative photography has been praised as art that gives voice to the voiceless. That’s a compliment Wiles couldn’t...
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Celine Schmitt, UNHCR’s Senior Public Information Officer and Spokesperson in Paris, visited UNHCR Innovation Service to discuss the successes and challenges of launching the Refugee Food Festival.
Sandra, UNHCR’s Regional Instant Network Schools Officer, discusses the opportunities for personalized online learning for refugees and bridging the digital divide.
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A local, people-centered approach to experimentation
UNHCR continues to innovate in its work with refugees, asylum seekers and host communities, and in 2018 for the first time, it tested out...
read moreTrust is still one of the biggest barriers for communicating with refugees
Anjali Katta was previously an intern at the Innovation Service and supported UNHCR's Malawi operation for a specific assessment around...
read moreGrassroots organizations are just as important as seed money for innovation
Where’s Waldo would have a hard time laying low in any country these days. Wireless interconnectivity has largely become the norm,...
read moreThe beginning and end of the Innovation Index
The Innovation Index Experiment UNHCR's Innovation Service has been undertaking an experiment. We created an Innovation Index; our first...
read moreHow to (re)build connection in displacement – Lessons from Uganda
The refugee and connectivity equation When hundreds of thousands of refugees started to flee South Sudan in the summer of 2016 and settle...
read moreHow to Work With Mobile Network Operators – Lessons from Tanzania
Today, we are seeing an unprecedented number of people forced to flee, leaving their homes behind and moving towards an uncertain future....
read moreHow UNHCR used creativity to improve journalistic accuracy and collaboration, one step at a time.
How an innovative partnership with the media delivers mutual benefits in Angola. The night the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) was evacuated...
read moreBusting a Myth: There’s very often not an app for that!
Peak ‘There’s an app for that’. During the Europe ‘crisis’ of 2015 we experienced a huge surge in volunteer resources, many people wanting...
read moreAudio-Based Communication: Radio, Listening Groups, and Beyond
The purpose of this blog series is to encourage people to begin their own grassroots humanitarian projects. By sharing my own experiences...
read moreHow to catalyze sustainable action by cultivating innovation and collaboration
One good idea can change the world. Not to get too flowery about it, but gardening does make a good analogy: If you plant a seed, tend it,...
read moreWhat doesn’t kill you: let’s talk about failure
Someone said to me recently, "deep down, everyone is winging it most of the time." I remembered this when at the WEDC WASH Conference in...
read moreAt the Heart of the Community: How to work with community-based organizations
Defining it as one of the solutions to address the widening gap between humanitarian needs and available resources, the former UN...
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