Refugees

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The Humanitarian System Needs Development Partners – Podcast with the UN’s Mark Lowcock
Rajesh Mirchandani
October 26, 2017
More than 65 million people are forcibly displaced, for on average about ten years. That's the scale of the problem facing Mark Lowcock, the new UN Emergency Relief Coordinator and Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs.
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Prioritizing Livelihoods: How Personal Security Can Promote Economic Security in Jordan
Kate Gough
and
Cindy Huang
October 24, 2017
Ensuring refugees have access to livelihoods opportunities is one of the key factors to broader stability. When refugees are allowed to contribute meaningfully to the economy, they gain self-reliance and economic security. Creating sustainable livelihoods, providing the right to work ...
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Here’s How the International Community Should Support Rohingya Refugees and Host Communities
Cindy Huang
October 12, 2017
Given the rate and scale of the unfolding crisis in Myanmar, the international community is rightly focused on emergency humanitarian measures. But it is also imperative for international actors to move quickly to develop complementary solutions that can improve the situation both now and in the lon...
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Global Skill Partnerships: A Proposal for Technical Training in Settings of Forced Displacement
Michael Clemens
and
Kate Gough
October 11, 2017
The world urgently needs innovation to shape how international migration happens. Today people who are forcibly displaced are seen and treated largely as a burden, not as a resource that can bring shared benefits. A new type of private-public partnership can offer new opportunity for some of those w...