Finance in Displacement – Exploring and Strengthening Financial Lives of Refugees
Joint research project facilitated by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), 2019-2021
Project consortium: Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Tufts University, International Rescue Committee (IRC)
This research project will explore the financial and economic lives of displaced people using approaches appropriate for the sensitive context of forced displacement. It seeks to address existing knowledge gaps in understanding the financial needs of refugees, how those are met by existing financial services market, and where there is need for better support. It will engage key stakeholders and service providers in making sense of the implications of these insights for their own work, in two focus countries—Jordan and Kenya—and beyond. The findings from the project will feed into policy and programmatic interventions of key partners such as German Development Cooperation, IRC, and others.
Principal investigators: Hans-Martin Zademach and Kim Wilson (Tufts University)
Team: Swati Mehta Dhawan, Eva Garcke, Daphne Jayasinghe, Anneleen Vos (both IRC), Radha Rajkotia, Julie Zollmann (Tufts) et al.
More information: The Journeys Project
Featured Publications and Material
- Fresh FINDings newsletters
- Joint lessons report
- High level findings
- CGAP blog
- Podcast on gender based findings
- Global Symposium and Jordan Workshop
- Kenya and Jordan Financial Biographies (English version, Arabic version))
Further selected publications
- Dhawan SM, Zademach H-M (eds) (2021): A Hope for Home. A brief compendium of financial journeys of refugees and asylum seekers in Jordan, Eichstätt: KU
(English version, Arabic version) - Dhawan SM, Zademach H-M (2021): Mobile Money and Financial Inclusion of Refugees in Jordan – Hope or Hype?, Medford: The Fletcher School, Tufts University
- Zollmann J (2021): Following where Community-Driven Organizations Lead, Medford: The Fletcher School, Tufts University
- Dhawan SM, Zademach H-M (2021): Understanding Financial Health of Refugees in Jordan: Empirical FINDings II (= Materialien und Diskussionsgrundlagen des Faches Wirtschaftsgeographie, vol. 29), Eichstätt: KU
- Dhawan SM, Zademach H-M, Wilson K (2020): Navigating ‘Survivelihood’: Why refugees in Jordan plateau in their financial journeys too soon, Medford: The Fletcher School, Tufts University
- Dhawan SM, Zademach H-M (2020): Financial Journeys of Refugees in Jordan: Empirical FINDings I (= Materialien und Diskussionsgrundlagen des Faches Wirtschaftsgeographie, vol. 28), Eichstätt: KU
- Vos A, Weber K, Jayasinghe D, Post L (IRC), Wilson K (Tufts University), Dhawan SM, Zademach H-M (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt): COVID-19 and refugees' economic opportunities, financial services and digital inclusion, report in the context of our ongoing research project on financial inclusion of forcibly displaced persons (FIND)
FIND Short profile
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High Level FINDings
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FIND Symposium Selected Voices
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FIND Jordan Workshop
The Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (KU), International Rescue Committee (IRC), and Tufts University organised the FIND Jordan Workshop “Finance in Displacement: Refugee Integration in Jordan” on 13th July 2021. This virtual workshop featured key insights drawn from empirical research conducted in Jordan in 2019 and 2020, supported by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). Through our findings, we hope to provide recommendations to policymakers, humanitarian and development agencies, and other actors whose work aims to improve the lives of refugees.
A wide range of Jordanian stakeholders supporting refugee protection, livelihoods, and financial inclusion participated in the workshop and provided their valuable inputs. Below you can find the video recording presenting the results from the study at the workshop. The detailed agenda is available here: » Download Agenda
