Bobbie Baker Shelter Officer Duty Station: Zahle, Lebanon During my Fellowship year I plan to undertake a detailed needs assessment and feasibility study to understand how pressures on Lebanese infrastructure can be reduced through the local design and production of a...
Caroline Mbui Resettlement Expert Duty Station: N’Djamena, Chad I’d like to find a way to establish a child-friendly environment for protection interviews. When we conduct interviews with refugees (these could be to determine refugee status, to register them, or...
Daniel Macguire Regional Resettlement Officer Duty Station: Dakar, Senegal I’m partnering with another Innovation Fellow to analyse data from past Call Data Records (CDRs) from cellphone towers to determine displacement, and then to compare this data with humanitarian...
David Githiri Njoroge WASH Officer Duty Station: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia I am addressing the challenge of how we can improve the efficiency of biogas cookstoves so that refugees can cook diverse foods. From a pilot biogas project undertaken in Bambasi camp in 2014,...
Ioannis Papachristodoulou Senior IT Assistant Duty Station: Athens, Greece I’m addressing the challenge of how we can provide better opportunities for refugees to learn and use a new language, both in school and in their daily lives. This is a problem because...