All publications: displaced persons + refugees

Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) mapping for refugees, asylum seekers and host communities in Egypt

Partnership for improving prospects for forcibly displaced persons and host communities (PROSPECTS) - Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq

In Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq, the ILO under the PROSPECTS partnership is implementing interventions to address some of the critical decent work challenges facing both forcibly displaced persons and host communities, as part of efforts to enhance more...

Digitally empowering young people in refugee and host communities What is possible? - A mapping study in Kenya

The mapping study conducted by the ILO aims to inform practitioners in the field, including the programme staff and development partners, in the design and implementation of activities. The study seeks to identify good practices, capture lessons...

Financial education for refugees, IDPs and host communities in Iraq – Trainee's booklet (in Arabic and Sorani)

This booklet, available in Arabic and Sorani, was developed within the framework of the PROSPECTS project funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands and is intended for refugees, internally displaced persons (IDPs) and host...

ILO Appeal

COVID-19 appeal update: ILO’s Response to the Venezuelan Displacement Crisis

Within the framework of the Regional Refugees and Migrants Response Plan (RMRP), the ILO has launched an appeal to its funding partners to support the response to the unprecedented refugees and migrants crisis in the Latin American region. The ILO...

Financial education for migrants and refugees in Andean countries – Trainee's booklet (in Spanish)

This booklet, available in Spanish, was designed primarily for migrants and refugees in Andean countries and can be used by anyone who wishes to improve the organization and planning of their personal financial resources. It may be distributed...

Promoting Social Cohesion and Peaceful Coexistence in Fragile Contexts through TVET - Guide for TVET practitioners

This Guide aims to assist ILO constituents and technical and vocational education and training (TVET) practitioners to strengthen the role of skills development policies and programmes in peacebuilding efforts through inclusive learning...

Digital refugee livelihoods and decent work - Towards inclusion in a fairer digital economy [Full report]

The digitization of the world of work is fundamentally transforming how refugees can make a livelihood and obtain employment. A rapidly expanding global digital economy harbours countless new opportunities but it also poses a range of challenges and...

Financial education for refugees, IDPs and host communities in East Africa – Trainee’s booklet

This booklet on financial education targets primarily refugees, internally displaced persons and host communities in East Africa who wish to improve their money management skills. It introduces basic knowledge and tools related to earning, spending,...

Digital refugee livelihoods and decent work - Towards inclusion in a fairer digital economy [Summary]

This report offers the first comparative global assessment of the emerging field of digital livelihoods and digital work among refugees. The insights are based on eight unique case studies that are authored by leading experts in their respective...

Social Finance Brief: Microfund for Women, experience in serving refugees and host communities in Jordan

In this brief, focusing on “Making Finance Work for Refugees”, Social Finance documents the experience of MFW Jordan. MFW aims to provide sustainable (non-)financial services to poor (female) entrepreneurs and to empower them socio-economically....

Opportunities for extending social security coverage in Jordan

The report aims to support Jordanian policymakers in the extension of social security to informal workers. It formulates typologies for informal workers outside the social security system, analyses the main constraints to coverage and outlines a...

Executive summary: Opportunities for extending social security coverage in Jordan

The report aims to support Jordanian policymakers in the extension of social security to informal workers. It formulates typologies for informal workers outside the social security system, analyses the main constraints to coverage and outlines a...

Impact of COVID-19 on Migrants and Refugees in the Arab Region - Technical Paper

This paper focuses on the impact of the pandemic on specific groups, namely women, children and refugees.

Impact of COVID-19 on Migrants and Refugees in the Arab Region - Policy Brief

Migrants and refugees are among the social groups most impacted by the COVID-19 crisis, and are suffering disproportionately from its social and economic consequences.

Compendium: Employment and decent work in refugee and other forced displacement contexts

Compendium of ILO’s lessons learned, emerging good practices and policy guidance

Handbook on social health protection for refugees: Approaches, lessons learned and practical tools to assess coverage options

The purpose of this handbook is to guide UNHCR public health and programme staff and ILO staff working on social protection at country level on the considerations and practical steps required to assess options for the inclusion of refugees in...

Iraq Decent Work Country Programme Update

Overview of ILO-Iraq progress towards Decent Work for all.

Brief

PROSPECTS– Employment Intensive Investment Programme (EIIP)

The "PROSPECTS partnership for inclusive jobs and education for forcibly displaced persons and host communities in Ethiopia” is the government of the Kingdom of Netherlands funded initiative among the IFC, ILO, UNICEF, UNHCR and the World Bank, to...

Assessment of employment- intensive investment strategies in refugee-hosting communities in Ethiopia

The report identifies short- and medium-term interventions for the creation of jobs, infrastructure and other assets for host, IDP and refugee communities by means of interventions by the Employment-Intensive Investment Programme (EIIP).