Innovation Fellow Profile: Daniel Macguire

Innovation Fellow Profile: Daniel Macguire

Daniel Macguire Regional Resettlement Officer Duty Station: Dakar, Senegal I’m partnering with another Innovation Fellow to analyse data from past Call Data Records (CDRs) from cellphone towers to determine displacement, and then to compare this data with humanitarian...
Innovation Fellow Profile: David Githiri Njoroge

Innovation Fellow Profile: David Githiri Njoroge

David Githiri Njoroge WASH Officer Duty Station: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia I am addressing the challenge of how we can improve the efficiency of biogas cookstoves so that refugees can cook diverse foods. From a pilot biogas project undertaken in Bambasi camp in 2014,...
Innovation Fellow Profile: Ioannis Papachristodoulou

Innovation Fellow Profile: Ioannis Papachristodoulou

Ioannis Papachristodoulou Senior IT Assistant Duty Station: Athens, Greece I’m addressing the challenge of how we can provide better opportunities for refugees to learn and use a new language, both in school and in their daily lives. This is a problem because...
Innovation Fellow Profile: Jessica Gut

Innovation Fellow Profile: Jessica Gut

Jessica Gut Associate Program Officer Duty Station: Juba, South Sudan I’m addressing the challenge of how we can find an effective way to enhance UNHCR staff’s – in particular, Protection staff’s – understanding of program concepts and tools in order...
Innovation Fellow Profile: Karam Hindi

Innovation Fellow Profile: Karam Hindi

Karam Hindi Information Management Associate Duty Station: Erbil, Iraq I’d like to find a way to provide dynamic visualized information on humanitarian operations despite changes. In Iraq, information management is a challenge faced by many, if not all, of the actors...