About Re: Build
About Re: Build
Re: Build is committed to GENERATE AND SHARE EVIDENCE FOR INNOVATIVE, SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS SOLUTIONS that can be adopted to support refugees and host residents in other cities in East Africa and beyond.
The Re: Build program is FUNDED BY THE IKEA FOUNDATION and is currently under implementation in Kampala and Nairobi cities.
The IRC is the Lead Partner and has been coordinating a consortium of local and international partners to deliver the program interventions.
The program seeks for urban refugees and vulnerable host residents to achieve economic self-reliance and benefit from strengthened urban economic, regulatory, and social environments.
It aims to enable change at varying levels, from better access to livelihoods opportunities and inclusive services within communities, to improved refugee-related policies and more targeted and effective service delivery by national, regional, and global actors.
Some of the key features of the program’s approach are flexible funding, adaptive design, and continuous knowledge and evidence generation.
The objective of Re:Build is to enable positive change in the lives of urban refugees and generate evidence of what works in both Nairobi and Kampala cities.
Our approach in delivering this objective is by identifying client-centered approaches and practices that have the potential of building economic self-reliance for the refugees and their host communities.
We will continuously test effectiveness of these approaches, and regularly promote the findings through diverse platforms as a strategy for championing the cause of urban refugee with governments, donors, civil society, and other stakeholders to facilitate adoption of successful interventions at a large scale, with the aim of creating transformative opportunities for millions of people in East African cities and beyond.