Who We Are
UNHCR’s innovation service supports new and creative approaches to address the growing humanitarian needs of today and the future.
What We Do
We tackle challenges using innovative approaches where we identify, adjust, and diffuse ideas. We solve challenges in a manner that has never been done before to deliver the best solution needed in our current environment.
Our Main Work
New ways of thinking and innovation are really important to our organization. Whilst the prime cause of our work has not changed, the scale and the nature of the issues we seek to address has. We cannot hope to solve them with the old solutions and ways of thinking. Hence our ability to innovate becomes a core competence – new ideas, new ways of thinking, new ways of engaging and relating become critical.
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Project Unsung
The UN Refugee Agency’s Project Unsung is a speculative storytelling project that brings together creative collaborators from around the world to help reimagine the humanitarian sector and promote narrative change and foresight in our work.
Innovation Fellowship
Learn about UNHCR’s Innovation Fellowship
The Fellowship is a 12-month learning programme for UNHCR’s workforce, focused on building innovation skills.
Humanitarian Innovation at the UNHCR
Connectivity for Refugees
Learn more about UNHRC's Connectivity for Refugee Initiative
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Communicating with Communities
Listening and talking to communities is a fundamental part of UNHRC and its partners work
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Discover UNHCR's Project Jetson
UNHRC's machine learning based experiment that provides predictions on the movement of people in Somalia
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The Arc
How can we use social and cognitive sciences to change mindsets + behavior around humanitarian innovation.
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