Archive of Theme: Inclusive Economies

Conducting a Rapid Assessment of the Refugee and Host Community Ecosystem in Uganda

Conducting a Rapid Assessment of the Refugee and Host Community Ecosystem in Uganda

Conducting a Rapid Assessment of the Refugee and Host Community Ecosystem in Uganda

With one of the most open-door refugee policies in the world, Uganda stands out as a significant refugee hosting country in Africa, offering opportunities aiming at the resettlement of the refugees. In collaboration with the Mastercard Foundation and World University Service of Canada (WUSC), we devised and conducted a rapid assessment focused on understanding the dynamics of the Refugee and Host Community Ecosystem in Uganda. Read More

Providing Comprehensive Investment Support to the Government of Tunisia

Providing Comprehensive Investment Support to the Government of Tunisia

As part of national efforts to change and improve Tunisia's investment landscape and its global implications, Expectation State, funded by the UK Government, delivered a multi-year programme to enhance and facilitate foreign investment into the country. The programme provided support Read More

Identifying Tensions Between Investment and Digital Rights

Identifying Tensions Between Investment and Digital Rights

In collaboration with Caribou Digital, and in partnership with USAID's Innovation, Technology and Research (ITR) hub, Expectation State was commissioned to identify tensions between investment and market growth in the digital technology sector and their impact on individual rights.  In Read More

Researching Devolution and Refugees Rights in Kenya

Researching Devolution and Refugees Rights in Kenya

Global failures to resolve conflicts that have generated refugees, alongside a corresponding failure to find solutions to displacement, have led to protracted exile for a significant proportion of the world’s refugees. This has had a major impact on countries in Read More

Integrating refugees into West African economies

Integrating refugees into West African economies

The Central Sahel is currently the fastest growing displacement crisis in the world, with ramifications for the wider West Africa region. Yet the ability for refugees and IDPs to play an active role in the economy is severely limited.  In Read More

Increasing access to finance for formal and informal businesses in Jordan

Increasing access to finance for formal and informal businesses in Jordan

Informal Livelihoods Advancement Activity (Iqlaa) is a five-year USAID-funded program supporting Jordan's Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs). Iqlaع aims to meet the immediate needs of formal and informal MSEs following the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis, while building stable foundations from which Read More

Assessing Barriers to Refugee Lens Investment in Jordan

Assessing Barriers to Refugee Lens Investment in Jordan

Jordan hosts the second largest proportion of refugees per capita in the world, but their ability to engage in the formal economy can be limited. The nascent field of Refugee Lens Investing is gradually decoding how global investors can better Read More

Profiling and Engaging Impact Investors for Jordan

Profiling and Engaging Impact Investors for Jordan

As an asset class and idea, impact investing is growing. Mainstream fund managers have entered the arena, raising awareness about the issues associated with the core tenets of impact investing. While this is great for the industry, it is less Read More

Advancing Policy to Integrate Arab Youth into their Economies

Advancing Policy to Integrate Arab Youth into their Economies

Arab youth have among the lowest levels of financial inclusion in the world. We were engaged by the Alliance for Financial Inclusion to conduct a special report on the landscape of youth financial inclusion in the Arab region as part Read More