The UNHCR Innovation Accelerator scales proven solutions for forcibly displaced and stateless people through funding, partnerships, and technical support.
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Innovation at UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is a journey from ideas to lasting change. We nurture promising concepts through incubation, acceleration, learning, and capacity building, working closely with partners and communities to scale impact. Together, we create the conditions for humanitarian innovation to thrive.

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Scale

The combination of the three programmes helps UNHCR to scale innovation at local, regional, and global levels.

UNHCR Innovation Incubator

Nurturing ideas and concepts into actionable innovation projects
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UNHCR Innovation Learning

Innovation skills, shared experience, and M&E in practice
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UNHCR Innovation Accelerator

Fast-tracking viable solutions through intensive support
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Scale

The combination of the three programmes helps UNHCR to scale innovation at local, regional, and global levels.

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Refugee-led Innovation Fund | Incubator

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Championing the creativity of forcibly displaced and stateless people to develop locally community-driven solutions grounded in lived experience.

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Accelerator funding

External Application Open

The UNHCR Innovation Accelerator scales proven solutions for forcibly displaced and stateless people through funding, partnerships, and technical support.

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Our impact

180+
projects supported through an inclusive, competitive annual cycle that selects the most promising innovations
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Join us in advancing innovation with and for people forced to flee. Whether you want to collaborate on or fund our work, your support helps us turn ideas into solutions that change lives.

Switzerland. Roundtable "UNHCR in a Changing World" , Private Philanthropy Exchange, UNHCR HQ in Geneva

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Apply for grants through our Innovation Incubator and Accelerator
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Innovation journey: ideas to impact

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