The United Nations Special Advisor on Solutions to Internal Displacement, Robert Piper, has said that the private sector plays a vital role in job creation, entrepreneurship support, and driving economic growth for the successful inclusion of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Africa.
While speaking at the African Roundtable on Private Sector Solutions to IDPs in Africa recently in Lagos, Robert highlighted that they have developed a new generation of solution plans to move millions of internally displaced persons onto pathways for sustainable solutions.
He emphasised the need for capital, ideas, creativity, and markets for the successful inclusion of IDPs in Africa.
“We have a new generation of solutions plans that promise to move millions of internally displaced persons onto solutions pathways. The private sector has a vital role to play—by creating jobs, supporting entrepreneurship, and driving economic growth. We need capital, we need ideas, we need…