Displacement and social assistance

This evidence digest presents the contextually specific challenges of providing social assistance to displaced populations, including internally displaced persons, refugees, and irregular migrants. It highlights the complexities introduced by displacement, which is increasingly prolonged and disproportionately affects low- and middle-income countries. It underscores the current state of evidence, key debates and the urgent need for tailored social assistance strategies. It proposes four directions for research to respond to gaps in evidence and strengthen social assistance service provision: lived experience of displaced people; viewpoints of frontline implementing actors; whole-of-society approach and; self-determination.