5 challenges to accessing education for Syrian refugee children

Lessons learned from the Refugee Education Workshop at Stanford University.

More than half of the 4.8 million refugees who have poured out of Syria are children. The world sees their faces as…

Using biometrics to bring assistance to refugees in Jordan

Every month, 23,000 Syrian refugee families living in Jordan look forward to receiving the same text message. It’s a simple message, no more than a few words, but it’s what alerts them to their monthly financial assistance…

SAFE from the start: Fighting sexual and gender-based violence through bottom-up innovation

Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), one of the most terrible consequences of conflict, is also one that often goes underreported — and therefore unaddressed — because of…

Diffa, Niger: An ‘unexpectedly’, diverse communications eco-system

“Never assume you know the communications eco-system — never think you know how people share information and which sources they trust better than community members themselves”.