Incentivizing through the granting process: Some examples and lessons learned - English version

Incentivizing the self-reliance of displaced people through the granting process – lessons from the Lives in Dignity Grant Facility

The Lives in Dignity Grant Facility, founded by the EU and managed by UNOPS since 2020, has been designed to channel funding to promote development-oriented approaches to new, recurrent and protracted displacement crises. After two calls for proposals, and 14 projects funded globally, what can our early experience tell us about how donors can incentivize localization, the participation of displaced people, and the engagement of a whole-of-society approach? The LiD Grant Facility’s Forced Displacement Senior Advisor analyses what worked, and its impact thus far.