Portraits from PROSPECTS - Visualizing change in host and refugee communities

The world is witnessing record levels of displacement, which is increasing in scale and complexity as the years go on, including as a result of climate change. Significant international support is needed to help the host countries and enhance the education, protection, social and economic opportunities for forcibly displaced populations. As displacement becomes increasingly protracted, it requires a development-oriented response that puts decent work at the forefront of solutions.

This is the overarching aim of PROSPECTS - Partnership for improving prospects for forcibly displaced persons and host communities – the Humanitarian-Development-Peace nexus programme generously supported by the Government of the Netherlands and bringing together the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the International Labour Organization (ILO), the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Bank.

This exhibition gives a voice to hosts and refugees supported by PROSPECTS, enabling them to tell their stories and share their hopes and ambitions for a better future.

In this partnership, the ILO brings significant expertise and experience in supporting enabling environments to underpin inclusive socio-economic growth and decent work, strengthening labour markets and promoting access to improved working conditions and fundamental rights at work. The ILO supports efforts to stimulate labour market demand and immediate job creation through employment-intensive investment, local economic and business development. It provides targeted support to labour market institutions and actors, services and compliance and monitoring mechanisms that facilitate the integration of refugees into the labour market in accordance with its strong normative foundation of international labour standards. The ILO also brings expertise on technical and vocational education and training and on the recognition of prior learning for certifying the skills of refugees to better ensure access to the labour market, and methods for assessing labour market demand to provide the right skills to refugees needed by employers. In addition, it seeks to support governments in the development and improvement of more inclusive social protection systems.













The PROSPECTS Partnership Programme has its roots in the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) which calls for a global forced displacement response focusing on mobilising whole of- government, whole-of-society and whole-of-multilateral system. The Partnership model supports the operationalisation not only of the fundamental objectives of the GCR but also the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework that underpins inclusive socio-economic development among others.

It provides a platform by bringing together humanitarian and development partners and leveraging their respective comparative advantages to enhance response to forced displacement situations. As such, the role of the ILO is central to its ultimate success in proving the concept of partnership in addressing the needs of those who are forcibly displaced and the countries and communities that so generously host them.