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Making Refugee Self-Reliance Work: From Aid to Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa

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dc.contributor.authorHoogeveen, Johannes
dc.contributor.authorSilva, Karishma
dc.contributor.authorHopper, Robert Benjamin
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-01T15:29:10Z
dc.date.available2025-05-01T15:29:10Z
dc.date.issued2025-06-09
dc.description.abstract"Making Refugee Self-Reliance Work: From Aid to Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa" advocates for the enhancement of refugee self-reliance as a strategic, humane, development approach to refugee assistance. Facilitating refugees’ capacity to support themselves through gainful work not only upholds their dignity and autonomy but also offers socioeconomic benefits to host communities by unlocking opportunities for shared investment and development. The report demonstrates how refugee self-reliance in Sub-Saharan Africa remains elusive and identifies various reasons why this is the case: encampment limits the scope for self-reliance; restrictions on refugees’ right to work hinder self-sufficiency; small allocations of infertile land make even subsistence farming impossible; aid delivery in specific areas contributes to settlement patterns in which skills and economic opportunities do not match; economic development in remote, resource-scarce regions is unsustainable; and dependence on aid shifts funding priorities from long-term development to unproductive care and maintenance models. To overcome these challenges, the report outlines five areas for policy action: 1. Ending restrictive encampment policies 2. Boosting refugees’ economic participation 3. Supporting host communities 4. Reshaping financing and investment models 5. Investing in preparedness. Success requires committed leadership from host governments, as well as coordinated engagement and sustained support from humanitarian organizations and development partners.
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/978-1-4648-1969-8
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1596/978-1-4648-1969-8
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-4648-1969-8
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/43145
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWashington, DC: World Bank
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectREFUGEES
dc.subjectREFUGEE SELF-RELIANCE
dc.subjectSUBSISTENCE NEEDS
dc.titleMaking Refugee Self-Reliance Work: From Aid to Employment in Sub-Saharan Africaen
dc.typeBook
dspace.entity.typePublication
okr.date.disclosure2025-06-09
okr.date.doiregistration2025-06-11T02:12:14.355686Z
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Publication
okr.identifier.doi10.1596/978-1-4648-1969-8
okr.region.geographicalSub-Saharan Africa
okr.topicSocial Protection and Labor::Emloyment and Unemployment
okr.topicSocial Protection and Labor::Social Protections & Assistance
okr.unitEAWPV
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