This report is the product of the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Contracted Research Project (2014-17) 'Facilitating new refugee enterprise formation in Sydney' between UTS Business School and Settlement Services International (SSI). The Ignite Program was designed to assist newly arrived humanitarian immigrants or refugees to set up a business in Sydney, Australia. Based originally on the Sirolli Institute model, the program developed and evolved in its own right as the original had never been applied to refugee clients in a large city.

In 2019/20 CFE undertook a refugee entrepreneurship pilot programme backed by the Home Office and The National Lottery Community Fund. This funded four existing business support organisations to design and run refugee entrepreneurship programmes over a one-year period. The pilot was subject to a thorough academic evaluation. Conducted by Dr Michelle Richey at Loughborough University, the evaluation has successfully expanded the evidence base for refugee entrepreneurship programmes and provided a detailed guide to aid the rollout of programmes nationwide.
This report is the culmination of a two-year independent evaluation of Inkomoko’s business support and loan’s initiative. Founded in and around Rwandan refugee camps in 2012, Inkomoko offers business training, consultancy and financial opportunities to camp residents with refugee status and local citizens. An estimated 22% of the world’s refugees currently live in camps (UNHCR, 2021). Refugee communities may now reside for decades in these once temporary places. These figures denote the increasing pressure support organisations and camp residents face in these settings.
The Gender Lens Incubation and Acceleration (GLIA) toolkit is an interactive resource, to guide accelerators and incubators (or ‘intermediaries’) through the journey of uncovering how our activities impact, and are experienced by, different gendered groups. This toolkit will equip us as intermediaries with the mindset, strategies, and frameworks to amend and improve both our organisation and program to increase accessibility and inclusivity of our work by all genders.

In “Starting Afresh: How entrepreneurship is transforming the lives of resettled refugees”, the Centre puts forward a compelling case about why refugees make great entrepreneurs, how they can contribute to the UK as business-creators, and how guiding them towards entrepreneurship can reduce public spending and strengthen social integration.

This policy guide focuses on the role of entrepreneurship in enhancing the positive effects of migration on economic growth and development.

The Guide is a practical tool aimed at strengthening the humanitarian-development nexus urged by the World Humanitarian Summit in May 2016 and the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants adopted at the 71st United Nations General Assembly in September 2016.

The goal of the Rose Review is to tap the huge unrealised economic potential of female entrepreneurs by making the UK one of the best countries in the world for women to start and grow a new business. Up to £250 billion of new value could be added to the UK economy if women started and scaled new businesses at the same rate as UK men. Even if the UK were to achieve the same average share of women entrepreneurs as best-in-class peer countries, this would add £200 billion of new value to the UK economy.
Lack of access to capital is often cited as one of the primary barriers entrepreneurs face in starting or growing a business. This report surveys the current knowledge landscape regarding access to capital with an eye towards innovative concepts for improvement to capital access systems.

This policy brief assesses the potential of entrepreneurship to be used as a tool for the integration of refugees into the labour market. It discusses the challenges faced in business creation by these potential entrepreneurs, as well as the opportunities created by their situation. It also discusses different policy approaches used to support refugees in business creation and the keys to their success. This policy brief is part of a series of reports produced by the OECD on inclusive entrepreneurship.

For the first time, the global landscape for refugee entrepreneurship support has been highlighted. The global survey analysed 39 organisations across 19 countries that are offering tailored business startup support to refugees. The survey found that their business education and support has already led to the creation of 12,960 businesses and 18,127 paid jobs – spanning food and creative industries, energy and environment, engineering, space, cyber and fintech sectors.
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