During my internship with UNHCR Innovation, I have the mission of prototyping a reporting tool to track the monthly progress of projects that are managed/facilitated within the team, as well as any points that require the attention of the team’s leadership. Although I...
It seems like everyday I see a new “Open Innovation Challenge” being launched with a call for the most creative minds to come together and share their brilliant solutions. The open innovation challenge model has been widely adopted across the private...
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. A...
Conferences. Some say that if you’ve been to one, you’ve been to them all. You know the scene: name-tagged professionals moving from panel to panel, ruminating on really important issues during coffee breaks, and of course, performing the beloved business card swap...
“Humanitarian assistance and development have usually been seen as distinct areas of national and global governance”… (State of the World’s Refugees, 2006) If innovation could be a bridge between humanitarian assistance and development, which bridge would...
