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Building Inclusive Economies: Applications of Refugee Lens Investing
The latest landscape report from RIN highlights emerging trends, theses, successes, and lessons from the field of refugee lens investing, and shares recommendations for the path forward.
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Paradigm Shift: How investment can unlock the potential of refugees
RIN’s flagship report offers impact investors, grant-makers, and development finance professionals the first overview on how to invest in and with forcibly displaced people.
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Private sector & civil society opportunity in the face of the migration challenge in LatAm & Caribbean
*In Spanish only*
This new report from the Innovation Laboratory (IDB Lab) and the IDB Migration Unit shares data, stories, and successful initiatives that demonstrate the power of active private sector & civil society involvement to drive inclusive development.
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At a Climate Change Crossroads: How a Biden-Harris Administration Can Support and Protect Communities Displaced by Climate Change
Within the first 30 days of taking office, the Biden-Harris administration has made clear that climate change, migration, and displacement issues will be a priority for its first term.
This issue brief by Refugees International seeks to provide guidance on how to enable action on these key issues.
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Building Inclusive Economies: Applications of Refugee Lens Investing
The latest landscape report from RIN highlights emerging trends, theses, successes, and lessons from the field of refugee lens investing, and shares recommendations for the path forward.
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Financing Durable Solutions for Refugees and Forcibly Displaced People
This Earth Security Group report highlights the critical role that the private sector has to play in the success of sustainable solutions for forcibly displaced populations, empowering them and host communities to build a resilient future.
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Quarterly Digest on Forced Displacement: First Issue
The World Bank-UNHCR Joint Data Center on Forced Displacement (JDC) published the first issue of their Quarterly Digest, which shows how refugees, host communities, and countries of origin benefit from the interactions across the members of their respective communities.
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Refugee Entrepreneurs in COVID-19: U.S.
RIN’s Co-Managing Director Tim Docking presents key insights from their recent COVID-19 Refugee Investment Ecosystem Survey, and is joined by three panelists with unique perspectives on the experiences and needs of refugee entrepreneurs in the U.S. at this moment.
COVID-19
Refugees and COVID-19: More than a Health Issue
Dr. Elizabeth Ferris on supporting the 80% of the world’s refugees who don’t live in camps. “As refugees lose even their tenuous informal jobs in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, promoting and supporting self-reliance of refugees seems like a pragmatic alternative.”
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Breaking Down Barriers: Fintech Solutions for Refugees (Europe Focus)
This report from VillageCapital sheds light on the barriers that European fintechs face around working with refugee populations, and provides actionable recommendations for investors, financial institutions and government leaders to reduce these barriers to scale.
COVID-19
How Refugee Accelerators are Responding to COVID-19
RIN Fellow Betsy Alley shares observations on how refugee entrepreneurship accelerators and similar programs have been responding to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19
COVID-19 Resources
Lists of COVID-19 resources for entrepreneurs and the social impact sector from our partners.
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Enabling refugee integration and opportunity: A literature review
Commissioned by the RIN and developed by The Economist Intelligence Unit, this literature review draws on over 40 publicly-available reports to identify factors relevant to enabling or accelerating the integration of refugees into host communities.
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Refugee Investing Primer Webinar
This webinar unpacks what it means to invest in refugee ventures and how to apply the refugee investment lens framework.
