Is your app the best way to help refugees? Improving the collaboration between humanitarian actors and the tech industry.

Ever since the Syrian refugee crisis has come to the world’s attention, coders, designers and other professionals of the…

UNHCR launches Fund to drive innovation in operations

UNHCR’s funding mechanism for innovation-driven projects, the Innovation Fund, has received 102 applications for its first-ever call for proposals. The initiative is part of a wider effort spurred by the UNHCR’s Innovation Unit to…

Tawasul: 5 lessons from the UNHCR humanitarian call centre in Yemen

In late 2015, UNHCR — in collaboration with local partner AMIDEAST — established Tawasul, a humanitarian call centre in Yemen. Tawasul, meaning dialogue in Arabic, was the first of its kind in Yemen and shared…

Narrative = Control = Power

In life, there are things we cannot control: where we are born; the color of our skin; our parents; or the rapid pace of change in our personal lives and in our societies.

On the other hand, stories, by nature, are free. In the face of uncontrollable…

How understanding vulnerability can maximize aid effectiveness

The civil war in Syria, now in its fifth year, has given rise to one of the worst refugee crises in decades. Its violence has caused over four million people to flee the country. Around 630,000 travelled to neighboring…