Ioannis Papachristodoulou is enthusiastically bracing for failure. The UNHCR Innovation Fellow is currently testing his prototype for a tablet-based project that facilitates language learning for refugees. He knows the results may not be satisfying. “If there’s one...
It is the third day of the Refugee Education Challenge Bootcamp here on the fourth floor of a Kampala office block, and the usually magnificent view of the city’s hills is obscured by Post-It notes stuck to the windows scrawled with yesterday’s exercises. Large...
With five camps spread across 41 square kilometers, Dadaab is home to more than 350,000 people. 60% of the Camp population are under 18 years old, and the majority of these children will have been born in Dadaab. Whilst UNHCR and their partners run a number of formal...
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. Much of the Energy Lab’s work in 2014...
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. Through the Home Lab, UNHCR Innovation and the...
“For nowhere in the world has sustained development been attained without a well-functioning system of education, without universal and sound primary education, without an effective higher education sector, without equality of educational opportunity.” – South...
