When I’ve recommended a mobile phone distribution, to strengthen our communication with communities, I’ve seen a lot of colleagues recoil in horror. Not because they don’t want to communicate with refugees and host communities by phone – many already do –...
I’ve always wanted to visit Angola and remember reading about the end of years of bloody civil war when I was at school. This year, I had the opportunity to travel to Angola for the first time, recently joining the UNHCR operation there for a few weeks. Since early...
The UNHCR Representation in Niger was established in 2012 to respond to the influx of refugees from Mali, following the outbreak of conflict. Since then, the operation has grown in size to respond to additional situations, including the arrival of Nigerian refugees...
‘Peak Lab’ In an entirely ‘non-scientific poll’, the Centre for Impact asked respondents where different government ‘innovation initiatives’ sit on a so-called hype cycle. Respondents indicated that [policy] labs were the ‘peak of inflated expectations’. The next...
In order to support UNHCR Field operations and other humanitarian response organisations undertake Information and Communication Needs Assessments, UNHCR Innovation Service has developed a ‘question bank’ on Information and Communication Needs that can be downloaded,...
