The Kulehe project, launched in Addis Ababa, supports 120 youth from refugee and host communities with entrepreneurship training, financial inclusion, and business linkages, promoting decent employment through the ILO Youth-to-Youth Fund.

The move, in collaboration with UNHCR, underscores TNG Digital’s commitment to integrating vulnerable communities into the formal financial system, ensuring greater economic participation and security.

The Banca de las Oportunidades project, “El Parche Financiero” (“the Financial Patch”), aims to promote financial inclusion for the 100,000 Venezuelan migrants in the country.

Coordinated efforts are needed to move from emergency response to long-term inclusion. The Community of Practice on the Financial Inclusion of Forcibly Displaced People aims to help make this happen.

RUFI has received the prestigious EUR 100 000 European Microfinance Award 2024 in recognition of its transformative efforts to enhance financial inclusion for refugees and forcibly displaced persons (FDPs).

This policy brief highlights key strategies for advancing financial inclusion for forcibly displaced persons (FDPs), addressing the unique barriers they face in accessing formal financial services.

This paper aims to answer the questions: what is displacement and its drivers? How is displacement related to financial exclusion? What challenges do FDPs face, and what do providers face in seeking to serve them? And what are FDPs’ financial and non-financial needs depending on their phase of displacement?

The $20 million facility will boost financial inclusion for individuals and small businesses in Kenya’s most underserved regions that serve as a home to hundreds of thousands of forcibly displaced people from countries across Africa.

A five-year blended finance program centered on market-conducive incentives shows that loan portfolio guarantees are not necessary for serving refugees.

The finalists will go on to compete for the EUR 100,000 prize for having demonstrated what financial inclusion organizations can do to support refugees and forcibly displaced people (FDPs).