The price tag of exclusion
The Innovation Services’s Diversity and Inclusion project “Reflections” advances efforts to drive cultural change within UNHCR and the wider humanitarian eco-system to increase diversity, inclusivity, and gender equity.
The project seeks to dig beneath the surface of our conversations around inclusion to understand how we innovate in the space of inclusion. We have reached out to people inside and outside of UNHCR, where vibrant discussions are ongoing, to find the stories and experiences that support the drive for structural and behavioural change.
Innovation depends on making diversity work, and inspiring confidence in collective values. A UNHCR colleague shares her experiences of a variety of work environments and how diversity can enhance the everyday work of the organisation.
The interviewee argues that diversity and inclusion should be developed like a muscle and situates the diversity debate, not as a peripheral ideal, but as a powerful core competence that can help UNHCR deliver optimally its mandate.
