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Dear Colleagues,

Please join us on Tuesday, April 22 at 9 am EDT (online via Zoom) to hear about new research on livelihoods for Rohingya refugees and its implications for practice.

After fleeing Myanmar in 2017, today nearly one million Rohingya refugees live in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Now the world’s largest stateless population, the Rohingyas in Bangladesh are barred from public education and formal work, relying almost entirely on humanitarian assistance. Strong evidence on how best to support the basic needs of this population, let alone provide for sustainable livelihoods, is limited.

New research is shedding light on the impacts of employment for Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar. Reshmaan Hussam will present her recent work on the impacts of employment on the mental well-being of men, women, and their households. Fatima Zahra will then present her ongoing work on the linkages between Rohingya fathers’ employment, psychosocial well-being, and its impacts on early childhood development. Md Iltemas Amin Adee will then comment on the implications of this work for policy and practice.



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The Displaced Livelihoods Initiative

Displacement is at an all-time high and is projected to climb in the coming decades, pushing the international donor, practitioner, and researcher communities to seek more cost-effective, long-term solutions to displacement. This has led to an increased effort to strengthen livelihoods, self-reliance, and economic inclusion. More evidence is needed, however, about what interventions best support sustainable livelihoods for displaced populations and host communities, and at what cost. DLI supports rigorous impact evaluations, pilots, exploratory studies, infrastructure and public goods projects, and scaling work to inform policies and programs on sustainable livelihoods for displaced populations and host communities. Funding for DLI comes from the IKEA Foundation. Learn more here

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Asia Humanitarian Action & Displacement Response Research Incubator

Organizations interested in exploring how randomized evaluations can complement their learning, advocacy, and fundraising toolkits are encouraged to apply for IPA and J-PAL's four-day randomized evaluation workshop, as part of our Displaced Livelihoods Initiative

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Hosted by IPA Philippines, the incubator is tailored to organizations implementing livelihoods programming for displaced persons or aiming to improve the protection of conflict-affected populations. Participants will learn how to design a randomized evaluation to better understand their program's impact. Learn more here

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