New Displaced Livelihoods Initiative will help advance sustainable livelihoods for displaced and host communities

Today, over 100 million people have been forcibly displaced to escape violence, conflict, or persecution. Projected to continue growing, displacement is also intertwined with poverty, food insecurity and climate change. The newly-launched Displaced Livelihoods Initiative (DLI), which will be jointly managed by Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), with generous support from the IKEA Foundation, is the world’s first research fund dedicated to generating rigorous experimental and quasi-experimental evidence to inform policies and programmes that can foster sustainable livelihoods for displaced and host communities.