‘Innovation and refugees’ - Forced Migration Review supplement now
A special Forced Migration Review supplement on ‘Innovation and refugees’ is now online at www.fmreview.org/innovation.
Innovation is not new. Displaced people themselves and those attempting to assist and protect them have always been having new ideas about how to deal with their needs. Yet the imperfections of current approaches are obvious in the challenges that we continue to face – challenges which ensure that displaced people are often unable to do what they need to do, that they do not receive the support they need, and that the organisations providing support do not function as effectively as would be desirable.
And the world of course goes on changing and new contexts arise. With a deliberate focus on looking at old problems in new ways, and on seeking and fostering innovation itself, there should be an enhanced likelihood that new products can be developed, new ways of working can be devised, new modalities and paradigms can emerge, to make the lives of displaced people better, more sustainable and less risky.
The title – ‘Innovation and refugees’ – of this special supplement of Forced Migration Review reflects the focus of the Humanitarian Innovation Project (HIP) with whom we have worked to publish this collection of articles. The eleven articles include contributions from HIP’s Humanitarian Innovation Conference (held in Oxford in July 2014) and reflect some of the thinking behind humanitarian innovation for displaced people, and some of its current manifestations.
The full list of contents, with web links, is given at the end of this email.
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Innovation and refugees supplement – contents with web links
Introduction: refugees and innovation
Alexander Betts (Refugee Studies Centre)
www.fmreview.org/innovation/betts
Innovation – what, why and how for a UN organisation
Alexander Aleinikoff (UNHCR)
www.fmreview.org/innovation/aleinikoff
Learning curves and collaboration in reconceiving refugee settlements
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar and Aparna Surendra (Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University)
www.fmreview.org/innovation/cuellar-surendra
Technology, production and partnership innovation in Uganda
Moses Musaazi (Technology for Tomorrow Ltd)
www.fmreview.org/innovation/musaazi
UNHCR Ideas: an online platform for change
Alice Bosley (UNHCR)
www.fmreview.org/innovation/bosley
Resettlement and livelihoods innovation in the US
Faith Nibbs (Southern Methodist University)
www.fmreview.org/innovation/nibbs
Entrepreneurship and innovation by refugees in Uganda
Robert Hakiza (Young African Refugees for Integral Development)
www.fmreview.org/innovation/hakiza
Innovation and refugee livelihoods: a historical perspective
Evan Elise Easton-Calabria (Humanitarian Innovation Project, University of Oxford)
www.fmreview.org/innovation/eastoncalabria
Innovation for equity in Lebanon
Luciano Calestini (UNICEF Lebanon)
www.fmreview.org/innovation/calestini
Innovation and new ways of working across sectors
Erik Abild (Norwegian Refugee Council)
www.fmreview.org/innovation/abild
Humanitarian innovation, humanitarian renewal?
Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (Peace Research Institute Oslo)
www.fmreview.org/innovation/sandvik
Humanitarian Innovation Project resources
www.fmreview.org/innovation/hip
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