Resources

To help UNHCR colleagues to create high-quality, brand-compliant charts and graphics, GDS hascreated a number of tools, templates. You can find useful tools to support your data visualization using Excel, Power BI, Adobe Illustrator, and for GIS.

MS Office

MS Office offers a range of tools for communication, presentation and data visualization. They include various types of charts, such as Column, Bar and Pie charts, and much more. In this section, you will find customized themes and chart templates that will help to avoid default styles and facilitate the creation of UNHCR-branded charts.

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Power BI

Power BI is a collection of software services, apps and connectors that work together to turn your unrelated sources of data into coherent, visually immersive and interactive insights. Power BI Desktop is a desktop application you can install that works cohesively with the Power BI service by providing advanced data exploration, shaping, modelling and report creation with highly interactive visualizations.

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Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator is a powerful vector graphics editor and design program used to create logos, communication content, and infographics. Adobe Illustrator offers limitless possibilities for creativity and an easy way to develop graphs, charts, and custom graphics. If you’re already experienced in using Adobe Illustrator and now want to use it for creating charts and dashboards in the UNHCR style, then these tools and templates are made for you.

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For more information on Adobe Creative Cloud licenses check UNHCR Intranet page.

GIS services

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is a powerful tool for managing and visualizing spatial data. Visualizing spatial/location based data usually involves a map. UNHCR has a number of templates, symbology and tools for creating professional and effective maps in several different GIS software.

Tools and Services Download mapping guidelines

Request your ArcGIS Pro license by contacting the GIS Support Unit.

Other resources

To help you follow the guidance and ensure brand consistency, below is a list of useful resources containing icons, fonts, webinars, and more.

UNHCR Data Visualization Webinars: A series of webinars to help you understand what makes a good UNHCR brand-compliant infographic.
UNHCR Brand Assets: A collection of all the UNHCR brand assets you may need for your day-to-day work.
UNHCR GIS Templates and Webinars: Resources that include guidance, templates, symbology, and webinars for professional and effective GIS mapping.
Humanitarian Icons: Icons developed by UN OCHA as a shared resource for all UN organizations.
UNHCR R Packages and Quarto Extensions: A set of packages to ease the production of statistical evidence and data stories.
- unhcrthemes: UNHCR branded theme for ggplot2 and data visualization color palettes.
- unhcrdown: UNHCR templates for R Markdown.
- refugees: R package designed to facilitate access to the UNHCR Refugee Data Finder.
- popdata: R client for the UNHCR POPDATA platform.
- quarto-html-unhcr: A Quarto extension to create UNHCR branded HTML documents.
- quarto-revealjs-unhcr: A Quarto extension to create UNHCR branded reveal.js presentations.