This learning brief explores how flexible, long term funding mechanisms can support adaptive programming in humanitarian and development programs, with a specific focus on improving the lives and livelihoods of refugees and their host communities as implemented in the Re:BUiLD program.

We examine how flexible funding characterized by fewer restrictions and the ability to reallocate resources as needed enables humanitarian and development programs to be adaptive by adjusting strategies and activities in response to new information, emerging needs and changing circumstances. The examples presented in this brief are drawn from the Re:BUiLD program supported by the IKEA Foundation, and implemented by the International Rescue Committee and partners in Nairobi, Kenya and Kampala, Uganda