1. CaLP Asia Cash Transfer Programming and Persons of Concern Workshop
Centre Point Hotel Chidlom
Bangkok, Thailand
14-15 March 2016

2. Enabling refugees to improve their living conditions, to live with dignity and create a better future for themselves and their families

3. Capacities & opportunities
Advocacy
Enabling environment
Programming
Capacities & opportunities
Economic empowerment
Advocacy:
Rights/access
ILO international standards
Economic impact of refugees
Labour mobility

4. 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

5. Minimum Criteria for Livelihoods Programming
strategic planning and informed programming
partnership and technical expertise
monitoring and evaluation
sustainable access to financial services

6. Financial Inclusion
SPTF: Guidance & TA for financial service providers
Sida: incentives for financial service providers

7. 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