{"id":889,"date":"2018-07-26T13:51:02","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T13:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.refugepoint.org\/\/?page_id=889"},"modified":"2023-09-06T17:35:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T17:35:23","slug":"self-reliance-initiative","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.refugepoint.org\/our-work\/self-reliance-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Refugee Self-Reliance Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today there are over 108 million people forcibly displaced, including 35 million refugees. The average length of displacement is 20 years and growing. As the numbers grow, solutions shrink. Humanitarian aid budgets are spread impossibly thin. An annual average of $30 billion is spent on short-term emergency aid.<\/p>\n

Keeping refugees dependent on humanitarian aid is not sustainable or dignified. Refugee households want the opportunity to provide for themselves and their families. They want to work, use their skills, and make decisions about their finances, their lives, and their futures.<\/p>\n

In 2018, RefugePoint and the Women\u2019s Refugee Commission co-founded the Refugee Self-Reliance Initiative (RSRI)<\/strong><\/a>, a multi-stakeholder initiative promoting opportunities for refugees to become self-reliant and achieve a better quality of life.<\/p>\n

Housed at RefugePoint, the RSRI uses self-reliance programming to innovate global refugee response through the expansion of data and evidence, improvement in standards of practice for self-reliance programming, and creation of conducive policy environments. The initiative partners with NGOs, refugee-led and community-based organizations, governments, funders, academics, and UN agencies to help refugees reach their potential and use their talents to support themselves, their families, and their communities.<\/p>\n

Key programs include:<\/p>\n