Innovation and refugees (Forced Migration Review, supplement 2014)

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Innovation around displacement is not new. Yet the imperfections of current approaches are obvious in the challenges that we continue to face. By looking at old problems in new ways and by seeking and fostering innovation itself, new products can be developed, new ways of working can be devised and…

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    FMR Innovation and Refugees - Humanitarian innovation, humanitarian renewal?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 12, 2015 10:29


    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.

    FMR Innovation and Refugees - Innovation and new ways of working across sectors

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 12, 2015 7:18


    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.

    FMR Innovation and Refugees - Innovation for equity in Lebanon

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 12, 2015 5:37


    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.

    FMR Innovation and Refugees - Innovation and refugee livelihoods: a historical perspective

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 12, 2015 6:18


    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.

    FMR Innovation and Refugees - Entrepreneurship and innovation by refugees in Uganda

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2014 5:54


    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.

    FMR Innovation and Refugees - Resettlement and livelihoods innovation in the US

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2014 7:10


    Conversations with multiple stakeholders in the US help to highlight barriers to economic self-sufficiency for resettled refugees and opportunities for innovative approaches.

    FMR Innovation and Refugees - UNHCR Ideas: an online platform for change

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2014 6:42


    ‘UNHCR Ideas’ aims to enable collaborative problem solving and idea generation among an online community.

    FMR Innovation and Refugees - Technology, production and partnership innovation in Uganda

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2014 4:44


    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.

    FMR Innovation and Refugees - Learning curves and collaboration in reconceiving refugee settlements

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2014 11:10


    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.

    FMR Innovation and Refugees - Innovation: what, why and how for a UN organisation

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2014 11:16


    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.

    FMR Innovation and Refugees - Introduction: refugees and innovation

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2014 14:13


    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.

    FMR Innovation and Refugees - From the editors

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2014 3:09


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