PROSPECTS – Shared responsibility, shared solutions: Expanding Sustainable Return and Third-Country Solutions for displaced communities in the East and Horn of Africa (PROSPECTS 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 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 entitled "Shared responsibility, shared solutions: Expanding Sustainable Return and Third-Country Solutions for displaced communities in the East and Horn of Africa" aims to lay the groundwork for expanding opportunities for sustainable return, mobility, and access to third-country solutions in the region and beyond, for displaced communities in and from PROSPECTS countries in the East and Horn of Africa.

Project symbol

KEN/25/51/NLD

Admin unit

CO-Dar es Salaam

Start date

01/12/2025

End date

31/12/2027

Total allocation

1980198

Total expenditure

Status

Active

70750

Development Partners

Netherlands, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Country/Countries

Kenya

Outcomes

Outcome 3: Full and productive employment for just transitions
Outcome 7: Universal social protection