Podcasts about refugee livelihoods

  • 3PODCASTS
  • 34EPISODES
  • 9mAVG DURATION
  • ?INFREQUENT EPISODES
  • Jul 10, 2018LATEST

POPULARITY

20172018201920202021202220232024


Best podcasts about refugee livelihoods

Latest podcast episodes about refugee livelihoods

Economies: rights and access to work (Forced Migration Review 58)
FMR 58 - From refugee to employee: work integration in rural Denmark

Economies: rights and access to work (Forced Migration Review 58)

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2018 9:35


The launch of Red Cross Denmark’s Fast Track programme, which focuses on early refugee employment, offers an opportunity to explore the relationship between local employment of refugees and the sustainability of rural life.

Economies: rights and access to work (Forced Migration Review 58)
FMR 58 - Syrian economies: a temporary boom?

Economies: rights and access to work (Forced Migration Review 58)

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2018 5:24


Some displaced people and their host communities have benefited economically from the consequences of conflict in Syria’s Raqqa province. Others need support – and the type of support needed will change as circumstances change.

Economies: rights and access to work (Forced Migration Review 58)
FMR 58 - Integrating refugee doctors into host health-care systems

Economies: rights and access to work (Forced Migration Review 58)

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2018 12:57


Refugee doctors face a number of barriers to practising medicine, despite the significant contributions that they can make.

Economies: rights and access to work (Forced Migration Review 58)
FMR 58 - The role of rural grocery stores in refugee reception

Economies: rights and access to work (Forced Migration Review 58)

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2018 9:04


Our research with rural grocery store managers in Denmark suggests that the integration of asylum centres into the local social and economic life in rural areas is a key factor in successful refugee reception.

Economies: rights and access to work (Forced Migration Review 58)
FMR 58 - Integrating refugees into the Turkish labour market

Economies: rights and access to work (Forced Migration Review 58)

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2018 16:12


The granting to Syrian refugees in Turkey of the right to access formal work was a first step towards their economic integration but a number of challenges remain.

Economies: rights and access to work (Forced Migration Review 58)
FMR 58 - Supporting recently resettled refugees in the UK

Economies: rights and access to work (Forced Migration Review 58)

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2018 10:26


Organisations supporting recently resettled refugees to find employment should focus on providing them with the tools to navigate the employment market in a sustainable way that leads to their personal development.

Economies: rights and access to work (Forced Migration Review 58)
FMR 58 - Refugees’ right to work and access to labour markets: constraints, challenges and ways forward

Economies: rights and access to work (Forced Migration Review 58)

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2018 16:04


Host countries need to assess the potential for opening their labour markets to refugees, and enhancing access to decent work.

Economies: rights and access to work (Forced Migration Review 58)

In our main feature, authors explore the complex interactions of the constraints and opportunities involved, drawing on case-studies from around the world and highlighting the roles of new actors, new technologies and new-or renewed-approaches.

Economies: rights and access to work (Forced Migration Review 58)
FMR 58 - Collaboration with criminal organisations in Colombia: an obstacle to economic recovery

Economies: rights and access to work (Forced Migration Review 58)

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2018 12:04


Those seeking to support economic development for internally displaced people in Colombia need to understand how and why many IDPs collaborate with armed groups and criminal organisations.

Economies: rights and access to work (Forced Migration Review 58)
FMR 58 - Obstacles to refugees’ self-reliance in Germany

Economies: rights and access to work (Forced Migration Review 58)

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2018 11:23


The majority of Germany’s refugees and asylum seekers rely on government welfare and face serious obstacles to self-reliance. Integration policies must eliminate these obstacles to promote mutual long-term benefits for refugees and their new communities.

Economies: rights and access to work (Forced Migration Review 58)
FMR 58 - Refugees and host communities in the Rwandan labour market

Economies: rights and access to work (Forced Migration Review 58)

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2018 9:23


In Rwanda, Congolese refugees have the same freedom of movement and right to work as Rwandans but the experiences and economic activities of these two populations are very different.

Economies: rights and access to work (Forced Migration Review 58)
FMR 58 - The new world of work and the need for digital empowerment

Economies: rights and access to work (Forced Migration Review 58)

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2018 6:31


References are often made to forced migrants’ digital literacy, including use of smartphones to organise journeys and communicate once at their destinations. Other digital skills, including those relating to the workplace, are of greater relevance.

Economies: rights and access to work (Forced Migration Review 58)
FMR 58 - Investing in refugees: building human capital

Economies: rights and access to work (Forced Migration Review 58)

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2018 7:32


Investing in refugees’ well-being is a global public good, and the international community should work to reduce malnutrition and increase access to education for refugees in order to help build human capital and achieve better economic outcomes for all.

Economies: rights and access to work (Forced Migration Review 58)
FMR 58 - Towards greater visibility and recruitment of skilled refugees

Economies: rights and access to work (Forced Migration Review 58)

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2018 7:00


Showcasing refugees’ skills connects refugees to global work opportunities, and also shifts narrative from one of refugees being burdens to host countries to one in which refugees are recognised as skilled workers for whom countries should be competing.

Economies: rights and access to work (Forced Migration Review 58)
FMR 58 - Validating highly educated refugees’ qualifications

Economies: rights and access to work (Forced Migration Review 58)

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2018 8:42


Qualification certificates play a central role in the labour market integration of highly educated refugees but validating them presents considerable challenges. Sweden and Norway have introduced some positive developments to address such difficulties.

Economies: rights and access to work (Forced Migration Review 58)
FMR 58 - Refugee livelihoods: new actors, new models

Economies: rights and access to work (Forced Migration Review 58)

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2018 13:42


The international community is increasingly emphasising the need to bridge the humanitarian­–development gap. But what does this mean on the ground in terms of refugees’ livelihoods and economic inclusion?

Economies: rights and access to work (Forced Migration Review 58)
FMR 58 - The macro-economic impacts of Syrian refugee aid

Economies: rights and access to work (Forced Migration Review 58)

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2018 9:39


A new study on the effects of humanitarian assistance in response to the Syria crisis finds significant positive impacts for regional economic growth and job creation.

Economies: rights and access to work (Forced Migration Review 58)
FMR 58 - Refugees’ engagement with host economies in Uganda

Economies: rights and access to work (Forced Migration Review 58)

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2018 11:25


Multi-sited fieldwork in Uganda allows for an exploration of the complex patterns of engagement between refugees’ economic activities and local economies, in urban, emergency and protracted settings.

Economies: rights and access to work (Forced Migration Review 58)
FMR 58 - The gig economy in complex refugee situations

Economies: rights and access to work (Forced Migration Review 58)

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2018 13:10


Research with Syrian women refugees in Jordan suggests that, despite significant challenges, the gig economy has some potential to help refugees participate in host communities and to bolster their economic participation.

Economies: rights and access to work (Forced Migration Review 58)
FMR 58 - Livelihoods programming and its influence on secondary migration

Economies: rights and access to work (Forced Migration Review 58)

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2018 12:56


Improving access to work, as well as livelihoods programming itself, is required if the lives and livelihoods of Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia are to improve.

Economies: rights and access to work (Forced Migration Review 58)
FMR 58 - The shortcomings of employment as a durable solution

Economies: rights and access to work (Forced Migration Review 58)

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2018 7:42


The refugee assistance regime that prevails today seems to insist that the best, or only, solution to protracted refugee situations is firmly rooted in improving access to employment.

Syrians in displacement (Forced Migration Review 57)
FMR 57 - Learning from the Jordan Compact

Syrians in displacement (Forced Migration Review 57)

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2018 15:46


Analysis of the implementation of the Jordan Compact offers three key lessons: governmental approval is important but not sufficient, the incorporation of critical voices is crucial, meeting numeric targets is not the same as achieving underlying goals.

Innovation and refugees (Forced Migration Review, supplement 2014)
FMR Innovation and Refugees - Humanitarian innovation, humanitarian renewal?

Innovation and refugees (Forced Migration Review, supplement 2014)

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 12, 2015 10:29


The continued evolution of the humanitarian innovation concept needs a critical engagement with how this agenda interacts with previous and contemporary attempts to improve humanitarian action.

Innovation and refugees (Forced Migration Review, supplement 2014)
FMR Innovation and Refugees - Innovation and refugee livelihoods: a historical perspective

Innovation and refugees (Forced Migration Review, supplement 2014)

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 12, 2015 6:18


It is difficult to speak convincingly of ‘new’ or innovative practices towards refugees, especially in refugee livelihoods assistance, while there remains a significant gap in historical knowledge and institutional memory.

Innovation and refugees (Forced Migration Review, supplement 2014)
FMR Innovation and Refugees - Innovation for equity in Lebanon

Innovation and refugees (Forced Migration Review, supplement 2014)

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 12, 2015 5:37


Innovative approaches in Lebanon aim to address, in two very different ways, the particular needs of the most vulnerable among the refugee and host populations.

Innovation and refugees (Forced Migration Review, supplement 2014)
FMR Innovation and Refugees - Innovation and new ways of working across sectors

Innovation and refugees (Forced Migration Review, supplement 2014)

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 12, 2015 7:18


Humanitarian actors will have to adapt to a changing world but it will not be easy or straightforward. Operations are changing as a result of innovations which bring many improvements but also throw up challenges.

Innovation and refugees (Forced Migration Review, supplement 2014)
FMR Innovation and Refugees - Technology, production and partnership innovation in Uganda

Innovation and refugees (Forced Migration Review, supplement 2014)

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2014 4:44


Since 2007 a partnership between UNHCR, the Government of Uganda and ‘MakaPads’ inventor Moses Musaazi has helped provide affordable sanitary pads for thousands of refugee girls and women.

Innovation and refugees (Forced Migration Review, supplement 2014)
FMR Innovation and Refugees - UNHCR Ideas: an online platform for change

Innovation and refugees (Forced Migration Review, supplement 2014)

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2014 6:42


‘UNHCR Ideas’ aims to enable collaborative problem solving and idea generation among an online community.

Innovation and refugees (Forced Migration Review, supplement 2014)
FMR Innovation and Refugees - Resettlement and livelihoods innovation in the US

Innovation and refugees (Forced Migration Review, supplement 2014)

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2014 7:10


Conversations with multiple stakeholders in the US help to highlight barriers to economic self-sufficiency for resettled refugees and opportunities for innovative approaches.

Innovation and refugees (Forced Migration Review, supplement 2014)
FMR Innovation and Refugees - Entrepreneurship and innovation by refugees in Uganda

Innovation and refugees (Forced Migration Review, supplement 2014)

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2014 5:54


In order to make a living, refugees have to be innovative, and refugees in Uganda have contributed tremendously to entrepreneurship and innovation in the country.

Innovation and refugees (Forced Migration Review, supplement 2014)
FMR Innovation and Refugees - From the editors

Innovation and refugees (Forced Migration Review, supplement 2014)

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2014 3:09


From the editors

Innovation and refugees (Forced Migration Review, supplement 2014)
FMR Innovation and Refugees - Introduction: refugees and innovation

Innovation and refugees (Forced Migration Review, supplement 2014)

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2014 14:13


Doing innovation well presents challenges for how we can work better together as organisations and with displaced people, and how we can break down traditional barriers between actors – all while upholding ethical principles and protection standards.

Innovation and refugees (Forced Migration Review, supplement 2014)
FMR Innovation and Refugees - Innovation: what, why and how for a UN organisation

Innovation and refugees (Forced Migration Review, supplement 2014)

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2014 11:16


The purpose of innovation is to make humanitarian work more effective and more reflective. We do innovation to improve human lives by doing things better. Innovation, for UNHCR, is a humanitarian imperative to be carried out with partners.

Innovation and refugees (Forced Migration Review, supplement 2014)
FMR Innovation and Refugees - Learning curves and collaboration in reconceiving refugee settlements

Innovation and refugees (Forced Migration Review, supplement 2014)

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2014 11:10


A collaboration between UNHCR, Ennead Architects and Stanford University uses settlement design to promote innovation and further development in the refugee protection model but collaborators initially face a steep learning curve.