|
1 |
Creative Commons |
FMR Innovation and Refugees - Humanitarian innovation, humanitarian renewal? |
The continued evolution of the humanitarian innovation concept needs a critical engagement with how this agenda interacts with previous and contemporary attempts to improve humanitarian action. |
Kristin Bergtora Sandvik |
12 Jan 2015 |
|
2 |
Creative Commons |
FMR Innovation and Refugees - Innovation and new ways of working across sectors |
Humanitarian actors will have to adapt to a changing world but it will not be easy or straightforward. Operations are changing as a result of innovations which bring many improvements but also throw up challenges. |
Erik Abild |
12 Jan 2015 |
|
3 |
Creative Commons |
FMR Innovation and Refugees - Innovation for equity in Lebanon |
Innovative approaches in Lebanon aim to address, in two very different ways, the particular needs of the most vulnerable among the refugee and host populations. |
Luciano Calestini |
12 Jan 2015 |
|
4 |
Creative Commons |
FMR Innovation and Refugees - Innovation and refugee livelihoods: a historical perspective |
It is difficult to speak convincingly of ‘new’ or innovative practices towards refugees, especially in refugee livelihoods assistance, while there remains a significant gap in historical knowledge and institutional memory. |
Evan Elise Easton-Calabria |
12 Jan 2015 |
|
5 |
Creative Commons |
FMR Innovation and Refugees - Entrepreneurship and innovation by refugees in Uganda |
In order to make a living, refugees have to be innovative, and refugees in Uganda have contributed tremendously to entrepreneurship and innovation in the country. |
Robert Hakiza |
08 Dec 2014 |
|
6 |
Creative Commons |
FMR Innovation and Refugees - Resettlement and livelihoods innovation in the US |
Conversations with multiple stakeholders in the US help to highlight barriers to economic self-sufficiency for resettled refugees and opportunities for innovative approaches. |
Faith Nibbs |
08 Dec 2014 |
|
7 |
Creative Commons |
FMR Innovation and Refugees - UNHCR Ideas: an online platform for change |
‘UNHCR Ideas’ aims to enable collaborative problem solving and idea generation among an online community. |
Alice Bosley |
08 Dec 2014 |
|
8 |
Creative Commons |
FMR Innovation and Refugees - Technology, production and partnership innovation in Uganda |
Since 2007 a partnership between UNHCR, the Government of Uganda and ‘MakaPads’ inventor Moses Musaazi has helped provide affordable sanitary pads for thousands of refugee girls and women. |
Moses Musaazi |
08 Dec 2014 |
|
9 |
Creative Commons |
FMR Innovation and Refugees - Learning curves and collaboration in reconceiving refugee settlements |
A collaboration between UNHCR, Ennead Architects and Stanford University uses settlement design to promote innovation and further development in the refugee protection model but collaborators initially face a steep learning curve. |
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Aparna Surendra |
02 Dec 2014 |
|
10 |
Creative Commons |
FMR Innovation and Refugees - Innovation: what, why and how for a UN organisation |
The purpose of innovation is to make humanitarian work more effective and more reflective. We do innovation to improve human lives by doing things better. Innovation, for UNHCR, is a humanitarian imperative to be carried out with partners. |
T Alexander Aleinikoff |
02 Dec 2014 |
|
11 |
Creative Commons |
FMR Innovation and Refugees - Introduction: refugees and innovation |
Doing innovation well presents challenges for how we can work better together as organisations and with displaced people, and how we can break down traditional barriers between actors – all while upholding ethical principles and protection standards. |
Alexander Betts |
02 Dec 2014 |
|
12 |
Creative Commons |
FMR Innovation and Refugees - From the editors |
From the editors |
Marion Couldrey, Maurice Herson |
02 Dec 2014 |
