UNHCR Innovation Service

In Malawi, online work could be a lifeline for refugees. UNHCR is innovating to help them access it.

Writing an application for funding might feel intimidating — but doing it well can be the key to turning innovative ideas into reality.

The Innovation Service is supporting feminist changemakers around the world to accelerate progress for their communities.

It’s not easy to carry out cutting-edge data projects in humanitarian settings. That’s why we developed the Data Innovation Roadmap.

In a series of community-based workshops, UNHCR has been working with and for refugees to improve digital livelihood pathways.

Refugees came together with UNHCR to share their perspectives on how to run video game events for displaced people.

In Tunisia, UNHCR is working to unlock the potential of refugees and foster resilience and self-reliance.

How UNHCR teams are thinking about and acting on the digital literacy needs and priorities of forcibly displaced and stateless communities.

Digital technologies can be a vehicle for refugees’ self-reliance — if communities are empowered to use them safely and effectively.

Leveraging seed funding to help grassroots organizations bridge the digital gender divide.

Unione Italiana Apolidi is the first stateless-led organization in Italy and an awardee of UNHCR’s Refugee-led Innovation Fund.

Knowing which communities to prioritize for protection isn’t easy. So, UNHCR is innovating with data to make evidence-based decisions.

People forced to flee struggle to access meaningful connectivity and digital financial services. The Innovation Service is exploring why.

Our first ever Digital Gender Inclusion and Innovation Bootcamp aimed to empower grassroots organizations. This is how.

Simple human-centred design techniques can improve digital livelihoods interventions for forcibly displaced communities.

In Brazil, UNHCR and its partners are working with displaced Indigenous artisans to bring e-commerce opportunities to local communities.

In South Africa, refugees with disabilities are innovating to advance their own protection, empowerment, and integration.

A tool that facilitates secure online financial transactions has other potential applications for humanitarianism.

These projects are working with communities to nurture new ideas that respond to climate and environment challenges.

A new tool to automate the download of satellite imagery and quantify drought patterns will help inform humanitarian measures.

Refugee-led organization PASSOP is boosting the social inclusion of LGBTQI+ refugees in Cape Town in innovative ways.

Digital interventions have typically focused on utilitarian goals. New research explores the manifold benefits of digital leisure.

An innovative project champions community-based environmental management & empowers displaced & host communities to express why it matters.

Exploring the particular challenges, risks, and vulnerabilities experienced by refugees accessing online livelihoods.