Salina Khatoon Health Associate Duty Station: Damak, Nepal I am addressing the challenge of how we can strengthen the medical nighttime emergency services for refugees from Bhutan in Nepal. The Association of Medical Doctors in Asia (AMDA) with the support of UNHCR is...
Samuel Cheung Senior Protection Officer Duty Station: Beirut, Lebanon I’m addressing the challenge of how we can help refugees find the most affordable, yet adequate, low-cost housing. More than 1.2 million refugees have fled the conflict in Syria and come to Lebanon....
Yusif Sidik Senior Field Assistant Duty Station: Takoradi, Ghana I’m addressing the challenge of how we can empower refugee communities to create more durable housing in camps. In March 2011 Ghana experienced an influx of Ivorian refugees in the country. Emergency...
“Humanitarian assistance and development have usually been seen as distinct areas of national and global governance”… (State of the World’s Refugees, 2006) If innovation could be a bridge between humanitarian assistance and development, which bridge would...
I love a great TV series as much as anyone, which got me thinking: what if we could have humanitarian innovation TV? Well, here’s a first attempt. Earlier this year we teamed up with +SocialGood to produce a monthly series of live Google Hangouts called...
Here I’m going to argue for what I believe is an unused potential from a free international curriculum. The content would include a mix of videos, audio and books and cover lessons from the whole primary and secondary school years. The potential then comes from the...
