Market and Value Chain Assessment For Refugee Livelihoods in Nairobi Metropolitan Area
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The study identified regulatory enforcement, awareness and implementation as the key challenges in enhancing refugees’ absorption into the employment sector in the country. Factors like lack of work permits, limitation in skills, lack of access to capital, and refugee status also contribute largely to refugee inaccessibility to formal work or self-employment. Arguably, the study found out that the service, transport, construction and ICT sectors within the Nairobi Metropolitan Zone have the largest employment potential for refugees, where they can easily be absorbed and earn a living. However, this has to be supported by creating awareness of the Refugee Act 2021, proper implementation of frameworks that support employment of refugee and asylum seekers, enhancing acquisition of work permits by refugees, training and mentorship of refugees, providing seed capital for refugees to start their own business among other things.
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United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees