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The World Bank has become a prominent player in forced displacement response. The Bank could strengthen its contribution further through better coordination with humanitarian agencies and more meaningful refugee participation.

Funding from the Gulf for refugee women’s empowerment could enhance self-reliance and women’s autonomy through flexible and innovative economic solutions, yet it risks reinforcing traditional gender roles and perpetuating inequalities.

The Russian invasion has prompted a new phenomenon: significant reverse remittances from within Ukraine to displaced Ukrainians in other countries. This has implications for the individual recipients, host countries and for Ukraine itself.

Refugees living in Aysaita camp in Ethiopia and Dadaab in Kenya struggle to meet their own basic needs. Despite severe hardship, interviewees describe sharing the little they have with others in more severe need.

To avoid restrictive institutional funding policies, Palestinian organisations are turning to online crowdfunding. However, this source of funds also has limitations and places power in the hands of corporations and individual donors.

The Jordan Compact promised ‘win-win’ solutions for Syrians and the Jordanian government, allowing Syrians to work and boosting Jordan’s economy. However, the Compact’s financing structures have led to limited change for Syrian refugees.

Refugee bonds have the potential to complement public sector funds and support refugee host countries’ economic development, but an emphasis on refugees’ contributions to the labour market may jeopardise the protection offered to them.

Financing support for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Afghanistan is challenging. An emphasis on local integration, involving local actors, the private sector, the diaspora community and climate finance could offer a way forward.

International donors’ requirements can prevent refugee-led organisations (RLOs) from accessing funding. Yet, as RLOs in Egypt demonstrate, direct finance for RLOs can deliver efficient, cost-effective and sustainable displacement response.