CaLP Asia Cash Transfer Programming and Persons of Concern Workshop Centre Point Hotel Chidlom Bangkok, Thailand 14-15 March 2016
Enabling refugees to improve their living conditions, to live with dignity and create a better future for themselves and their families
Capacities & opportunities Advocacy Enabling environment Programming Capacities & opportunities Economic empowerment Advocacy: Rights/access ILO international standards Economic impact of refugees Labour mobility
How are we moving forward? Development actors Private sector Safe value chains Putting refugees economic empowerment on the agenda of development actors Engaging the private sector based on the shared value Engaging refugees in safe value chains that have growth potential
Minimum Criteria for Livelihoods Programming strategic planning and informed programming partnership and technical expertise monitoring and evaluation sustainable access to financial services
Financial Inclusion SPTF: Guidance & TA for financial service providers Sida: incentives for financial service providers
Graduation Approach Target the most vulnerable Link social assistance with economic empowerment Business start-ups (grants/asset transfers) & wage employment Ecuador: National roll-out in 2016 Costa Rica: Graduation approach being adopted into government’s poverty reduction strategy
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