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UNHCR Innovation Service

UNHCR’s Innovation Service supports new approaches and methodologies to address the growing humanitarian needs of today — and, more critically, the future.

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Sep 28, 2016

5 myths about humanitarian innovation

If we could call innovation something else, we would. The word innovation is rife with confusion, is loaded with misunderstandings, and has the propensity to cause all sorts of confusion. Yet, it doesn’t need to. Here are 5 myths about innovation that are not…

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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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Jan 7, 2016

Building the creative confidence of young refugees

Months into her first placement with UNHCR in Uganda, Keiko Odashiro was hit by a crisis of conscience. After years spent at the helm of her own organization — an NGO working around human trafficking and gender-based violence — she had made…

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Oct 27, 2015

1 prototype; 4 critical questions.

This is an excerpt from UNHCR’s recently released report: Innovation at UNHCR 2014. This report highlights and showcases some of the innovative approaches the organization is taking to address complex refugee challenges.

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Sep 2, 2015

The best way to achieve sustainable energy for refugees is to make them partners and not just recipients

Meeting the energy needs of refugees and displaced people have long been based on short term and unsustainable projects that are not only inefficient…