2015 was a hard year to digest. Now every 1 in 122 humans is either a refugee, internally displaced, or seeking asylum. But a new year represents the opportunity to set goals and visions of what we hope 2016 will bring. And while New Year’s resolutions are often easy...
In the fanfare surrounding the release of the Sustainable Development Goals it may be easy to miss a shift in thinking that can have a dramatic impact on the role of Humanitarian innovators. Our job as advocates and practitioners of innovation is about to get much...
This is an excerpt from the Humanitarian Innovation Project’s recently released report: Refugee Innovation: Humanitarian innovation that starts with communities. This report highlights and showcases some of the innovative capacities of crisis-affected communities....
Across the global development sector, the idea of opening up data and becoming more transparent is taking hold. One might even say that it has become reasonably well established; almost every week, new data portals commissioned by global development organisations are...
Lack of access to funding should never be a barrier to the innovation process for humanitarians, and so we’ve rounded up a list of ten sources of funding for humanitarian and social innovators. From private sector grants and cash awards, to funding schemes...
