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Feb 16, 2016

Using telecommunications to improve clinical healthcare in refugee camps

As a Health Associate working in Damak, Nepal, Salina Khatoon and her team were facing a situation all too familiar to many UNHCR employees. Health services in the country’s two camps for refugees from…

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Feb 12, 2016

Empowering refugees to create their own housing solutions

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 materials.

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Feb 9, 2016

Creating an innovation ecosystem in Uganda for refugees

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.

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Feb 2, 2016

Catch of the day: on the search for big data to help measure displacement

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…

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Feb 25, 2016

Innovating around Emergencies: How we got started

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…

January 2016

March 2016

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