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...
In reality, education receives only 2% of humanitarian aid. UNHCR considers education a basic right, “one that is vital in restoring hope and dignity to people driven from their homes.” Unfortunately higher education is often a luxury for those who have...
Lack of access to funding should never be a barrier to the innovation process for humanitarians, and so we’ve rounded up a list of ten sources of funding for humanitarian and social innovators. From private sector grants and cash awards, to funding schemes...
In his book, The World After Midnight, Eddie Obeng talks about how ‘today, the current pace, scale and interconnectedness of change exceed our ability to learn.’ This means that failure – caused by uncertainty and complexity, as opposed to incompetence – is becoming...
Refugees have reported that, thanks to solar streetlights in the refugee camps around Dollo Ado, Ethiopia, there’s now more freedom of movement in and around the camps. Security has increased and people can go to the market, read, or study at night – activities that...
