A Guide to Market-Based Livelihood Interventions for Refugees

UNHCR’s Global Strategy for Livelihoods 2014–2018 has contributed to transforming the way the organization is working through the introduction of professionalized, data-driven, market-oriented approaches that strengthen linkages with the private sector and development actors. UNHCR and the ILO in partnership have carried out market and value-chain analyses at the country level in Costa Rica, Egypt, Mexico, Pakistan, South Africa and Zambia. This guide is based on the results of that work, and is written with the aim of providing a new way of looking at refugee livelihoods that combines a market system approach with more traditional livelihood interventions.