Client: IKEA Foundation
Duration: 2022-2027
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Country: Uganda
Solutions: Sustainable Business
The IKEA Foundation is one of the world’s largest private funders committed to helping refugees achieve economic self-reliance and sustainable livelihoods.
The Sustainable Market Inclusive Livelihood Pathways to Self-Reliance program (SMILES) seek to address rural refugee livelihood challenges in Uganda. SMILES aims to help ultra-poor refugee and Ugandan (host community) households in the Kikuube and Kyegegwa Districts graduate from food insecurity and fragile livelihoods to self-reliance and resilience.
The project combines a graduation approach, led by AVSI, and a market systems development (MSD) approach, led by DAI in partnership with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), REPARLE, Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), and the University of Makerere.
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