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Date: Thu May 2, 2024 09:30:00 AM
Location: Online
Contact: Claudia Rivas
Photo: Thumbnail OH19
Event| Webinar| Event| Starts: Thu May 2, 2024 09:30:00 AM - Ends: Thu May 2, 2024 11:00:00 AM

#19 PEI Open House | Economic Inclusion for Refugees and Host Communities

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At the end of 2022, a staggering 108.4 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide. This global crisis encompasses 35.3 million refugees, individuals who have crossed international borders in search of safety in another country, and 62.5 million internally displaced people. Hosting displaced populations can exert economic, social, and financial pressures on host countries, many of which are already grappling with multiple challenges. 

Economic inclusion programs can help address some of these challenges by helping refugees and host populations improve their income, assets and resilience. Economic inclusion programs can customize support packages to meet the specific needs of refugee populations, while promoting social cohesion among refugees and their hosts. While the evidence base on economic inclusion programs targeting displaced populations is still modest, it is steadily growing. Emerging evidence demonstrates the substantial positive impact that economic inclusion programs can have on both refugees and host populations, including in highly fragile and volatile contexts. 

Replay this PEI Open House to learn from governments, NGOs, UNHCR and other key stakeholders to better understand how policy makers and program implementers can facilitate the engagement of forcibly displaced populations in economic activities, and how programs can help participants overcome the constraints characteristic of contexts of forced displacement.Â