Investment Resource
Responding to Barriers Through Refugee Lens Investing: Uganda Study
RIN identifies high impact business models and sectors for Refugee Lens Investing (RLI) in Uganda, featuring a pipeline of specific market actors and potential partners.
Research
Building Inclusive Economies: Applications of Refugee Lens Investing
This 2020 landscape report highlights emerging trends, theses, successes, and lessons from the field of refugee lens investing, and shares recommendations for the path forward.
Video
Refugee Lens Investing: An Overview
Watch this video to learn about RIN’s theory of change, the Refugee Lens framework for investing, and the story of an R3 (refugee-supporting) enterprise in Uganda.
Investment Resource
Summaries of RLI Market Assessments in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda
RIN’s in-depth Refugee Lens Investing (RLI) market assessments highlight barriers to refugee self-reliance, financial & policy mechanisms to help mitigate barriers, opportunities presented by refugees and host communities, and RLI investment pipelines.
Video
Workshop Recap: Growing a Refugee-Lens Technology Business
Key takeaways from RIN’s ‘Growing a Refugee-Lens Technology Business’ workshop for Resilient 100 participants
Research
RLI Market Analysis & Strategy for Secondary Cities in Ethiopia and Uganda
With support from Cities Alliance, RIN identified key challenges and opportunities specific to investing in refugee lens companies in secondary cities in Ethiopia and Uganda to offer guidance to investors, donors, and NGOs seeking to support these enterprises.
Video
Refugee Entrepreneurship Showcase
Highlights, key takeaways, & recordings from the June 2022 event featuring entrepreneurs from RIN’s Resilient 100 program.
Investment Resource
Responding to Barriers Through Refugee Lens Investing: Uganda Study
RIN identifies high impact business models and sectors for Refugee Lens Investing (RLI) in Uganda, featuring a pipeline of specific market actors and potential partners.
Research
Creating a Refugee Lens Investment Roadmap in Jordan & Uganda
With support from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), RIN conducted in-depth assessments of market and policy barriers to Refugee Lens Investing in Jordan and Uganda. Learn more in this overview of the study’s research objectives and methods.
Initiative
Workshop Recap: Growing a Refugee-Lens Creative Brand
Highlights and key takeaways from RIN’s “Growing a Refugee Lens Creative Brand” workshop for Resilient 100 participants.
Video
Growing Your Business Through Refugee Lens Investing: Why & How?
Key takeaways and full session recording of RIN’s latest webinar, featuring entrepreneurs and business leaders who have tapped into new pools of capital & growth opportunities as refugee-lens enterprises.
Investment Resource
Resilient 100 Holiday Collection
Looking to shop with impact this holiday season? Check out the Resilient 100 Holiday Collection to shop products from refugee-owned and supporting businesses.
Initiative
Resilient 100
RIN in partnership with Silver Lining will provide 100 refugee-led and refugee-supporting companies with business coaching rooted in behavior-change science, investment readiness support, and networking. Learn more and apply.
Research
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.
