Helping refugees help themselves: community based approach

In Kampala, Uganda urban refugee case load is excluded from the mainstream refugee assistance and protection that is focused on the settlements. These categories of refugees who opt to stay out of the settlement are supposed to…

Integrated communications strategy: a collaborative experience in Costa Rica

Integrated Communications strategy: a collaborative experience in Costa Rica

During the Innovation Fellowship we iFellows were trained on the Human-Centered Design (HCD)…

Managing innovation is terrifying.

Managing innovation is terrifying. It’s terrifying for many different reasons, but here I’ll just outline four: 1) Expectations are huge; 2) Resistance to change is not insignificant; 3) The need for innovation in our sector is not small; 4) You have to manage people.

Do you know how to fail well?

In his book, The World After Midnight, Eddie Obeng talks about how ‘today, the current pace, scale and interconnectedness of change exceed our ability to learn.’ This means that failure — caused by uncertainty and complexity, as opposed to incompetence — is becoming…