PROSPECTS – Improving Prospects for Host Communities and Forcibly Displaced Persons (Opportunity Fund Phase 2)

PROSPECTS is a partnership and a multi-year programme financed by the Government of the Netherlands and brings together the IFC, ILO, UNICEF, UNHCR and the World Bank to address crucial and emerging challenges of protracted displacement, in close coordination with the PROSPECTS is a partnership and a multi-year programme financed by the Government of the Netherlands and brings together the IFC, ILO, UNICEF, UNHCR and the World Bank to address crucial and emerging challenges of protracted displacement, in close coordination with the governments of the hosting countries. The Partnership focuses on four areas of intervention that enable forcibly displaced persons to overcome their specific vulnerabilities and host communities to pursue their own development efforts in transformed environments. These are: education and learning; employment; protection; and critical infrastructure. Opportunity Fund was introduced as an instrument to strengthen closer cooperation between the PROSPECTS Partners at country, regional or global levels in Phase 1 of PROSPECTS. The Netherlands kept the same instrument in Phase 2 to scale-up projects that have proven successful but also support innovative pilots testing new programming and policy approaches. As a result of this process, ILO has become part of various Opportunity Fund projects at country, regional (on durable solutions) and global levels. This country project is composed of three components. First, "PROSPECTS 4 Youth: Unlocking youth engagement in education and employment opportunities in forced displacement contexts" aims to evolve the Youth Workstream into an Inter-Agency PROSPECTS4Youth Technical Facility (P4YTF) that provides integrated support to PROSPECTS countries to strengthen the realisation of rights, access to services and socio-economic opportunities for young people1 by leveraging their engagement across all 4 pillars, with a focus on education and employment. Secondly, "Advancing Fair Recruitment and Decent Work for Refugees and Host Communities" aims to to promote fair recruitment and decent work for refugees and host communities. This will be achieved by advancing the following PROSPECTS short-term outcomes: (1) Improving labour market governance supporting transition to and entry into employment and formalization (STO 2.1). (2) Enhancing the capacity - of social partners, private sector and civil society, including refugee-led organizations - to increase access to the right to work, protect rights at work and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers in host countries (STO 2.4).. And thirdly, "Digital Opportunity Accelerator" aims to unlocking two systemic enablers for refugee and host community participation in the global digital economy: (1) portability of skills relevant for entry and progression in digital economy jobs and livelihoods, and (2) access to secure national digital ID systems that enable engagement in online work, business, education, payments, and related services at national and regional levels.

Project symbol

GLO/25/53/NLD

Admin unit

ADG/JSP

Start date

01/12/2025

End date

31/12/2027

Total allocation

5551147

Total expenditure

Status

Active

320270

Development Partners

Netherlands, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Country/Countries

Global

Outcomes

Outcome 7: Universal social protection
Output A.4. Expanded partnerships and development cooperation in support of the policy outcomes
Outcome 3: Full and productive employment for just transitions
Outcome 6: Protection at work for all
Outcome 4: Sustainable enterprises for inclusive growth and decent work