Most refugees are denied the right to work, and are pushed into informal labor markets, with the associated risks of exploitation. Compacts between international donors and host countries in the Syrian region present an example of an effort at a global level to...
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Kakuma as a Marketplace
This report aims to understand Kakuma as a potential market and identify business opportunities and challenges for the private sector, including commercial firms, social enterprises and local entrepreneurs. Based on a survey of 1,400 households in the refugee camp...
Refugees and Their Money: The Business Case for Providing Financial Services to Refugees
This study assesses the demand for financial services in refugee populations in Rwanda and estimates the business case for financial institutions to provide these services. The report makes the case that refugees have a strong need for comprehensive financial services...
Doing Business in Dadaab Report: Market Systems Analysis for Local Economic Development in Dadaab, Kenya
This report presents findings from a market system analysis conducted in the Dadaab refugee camps in Garissa County in northeastern Kenya. The analysis is based on research conducted by Samuel Hall in and around Dadaab in October and November 2018, including key...
Doing Business in Kakuma – Refugees, Entrepreneurship, and the Food Market
This report examines the environment for business and entrepreneurship in Kakuma through an in-depth examination of the food market. The food market figures large in the economic life of Kakuma (including the Kakuma refugee camps and the Kalobeyei refugee settlement)...
How Business Can Invest in the Future of the Rohingya and Host Community in Bangladesh
This brief presents the background to the Rohingya crisis and how it is affecting Bangladesh, why business should get involved, what investment and sourcing opportunities exist, and what next steps for interested businesses could be. The authors argue that businesses...
Stuck in the middle” – Seeking Durable Solutions in Post-Peace Agreement Colombia
This study examines the relationship between internal displacement, cross-border movements and durable solutions in Colombia. Based on almost 200 interviews with IDPs, refugees and returning refugees, the study examines drivers of displacement and onward movement...
Impact and Experience – Addressing Severity of Conflict Displacement
IDMC aims to complement displacement figures with an assessment of displacement severity in order to call attention to situations of particular concern, highlight key threats to IDPs’ safety and wellbeing, and better measure progress towards finding solutions to...
Breaking the Impasse: Reducing Protracted Internal Displacement as a Collective Outcome
This study describes the impact of protracted internal displacement and proposes steps to address internal displacement where durable solutions remain elusive. This analysis draws on case studies of protracted internal displacement in Colombia, the Democratic Republic...
Iraq’s Universal Public Distribution System: Utilization and Impacts During Displacement
This paper examines whether Iraq’s Public Distribution System, a universal food subsidy program, has mitigated the welfare loss of forcibly displaced households following the most recent wave of violence and displacement in 2014. The analysis is based on data from the...