World Refugee Day 2025 - How The Financial Inclusion Sector Serves the World's Growing Number of Refugees

20 Jun 2025

This World Refugee Day e-MFP commits to supporting its members and the greater financial inclusion community in building FDPs resilience, restoring FDPs’ livelihoods, and helping them live with dignity in host communities.

At the end of June 2024, according to the UNHCR Mid-Year Global Trends Report, an estimated 122.6 million people worldwide remained forcibly displaced due to due to persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations and - increasingly urgently - climate change.

Financial inclusion of Forcibly Displaced People (FDPs) is crucial for addressing the challenges posed by forced displacement at individual, community, national, and global levels. Effective inclusion can support immediate displacement needs and foster long-term self-reliance and resilience. It can play a vital role in restoring decent livelihoods, contributing to local economies, and facilitating return or resettlement. Inclusive finance organisations can and do play an important role in improving the lives of forcibly displaced people.

This World Refugee Day e-MFP commits to supporting its members and the greater financial inclusion community in building FDPs resilience, restoring FDPs’ livelihoods, and helping them live with dignity in host communities.

See a selection of our recent resources on Financial Inclusion of Refugees and Forcibly Displaced People, which in 2024 was also the focus of the 100,000 euro European Microfinance Award: