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Who We Are

UNHCR’s innovation service supports new and creative approaches to address the growing humanitarian needs of today and the future.
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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.

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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

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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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Innovation Fund 

We support UNHCR colleagues to test novel solutions to difficult problems in their context by building their capabilities and investing in their solutions.

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