Clean energy’s gains in technology and price could potentially impact refugees’ lives around the world. For Earth Day 2015 our Energy Lab rounded up nine energy innovations we’re watching: 1. Pumping water with solar power The solar water system, equipped...
In 2013 our Learn Lab teamed up with UNHCR’s Education unit and Worldreader to find innovative ways to foster a culture of reading and cost effectively get large quantities of books to refugee children in schools that often had few. We decided to go digital, using...
Four years since the start of the conflict, some 625,000 Syrian refugees have fled for their lives to neighbouring Jordan, caught up in the worst humanitarian crisis of our time. Azraq refugee camp was opened last year to help cope with the influx. The sturdy, metal...
Integrated Communications strategy: a collaborative experience in Costa Rica During the Innovation Fellowship we iFellows were trained on the Human-Centered Design (HCD) methodology to try to solve the challenges refugees face through innovative and creative...
“Anyone can become a refugee. This is not a choice we make.”– Aisha, 17 years old. Iterative Innovation For anyone who becomes a refugee, accessing education and a way to support oneself is always a priority. That’s why UNHCR and our Learn Lab...
In Kampala, Uganda urban refugee case load is excluded from the mainstream refugee assistance and protection that is focused on the settlements. These categories of refugees who opt to stay out of the settlement are supposed to cater for themselves. Relief agencies,...
