Project Innovations

Apart from directly supporting clients through core project activities, each city found an innovative way to maximize its impact and go beyond its original ideas. Many of these innovations were not in the city’s original project design but are a result of city government ingenuity.

Barranquilla designed a unique client enrollment scheme that prioritizes applicants who tend to have fewer opportunities to find formal employment while still ensuring all applicants receive information regarding employment opportunities and access to social services.

Beirut directly engaged migrant, refugee, and marginalized Lebanese communities to identify the best use cases and locations for its first ever Municipal Mobile Health Clinic.

Lima piloted a new way of connecting international and local service providers to local communities through migratones, large community events where families can both receive services and celebrate their neighborhood.

Freetown designed a loan repayment scheme that allows its Waste Management Micro-Enterprise Program to sustain itself as it scales to help more people find work while creating a cleaner, greener city.

Mexico City, for the first time in its history, established a partnership between three key government secretariats—the Secretariat of Labor and Employment Promotion (STyFE), the Secretariat of Social Inclusion and Welfare (SIBISO), and the Secretariat of Health (SEDESA)—to deploy a coordinated response to the overlapping needs of migrants, refugees, and IDPs.

“I am very grateful to the project and to the

Government of Mexico City, because I have been given support independently of my ideas, nationality, or gender. I received support covering diverse needs including employment and health care for myself and my daughter. With the assistance, I feel more confident to face the challenges of starting a new life in a new city.”

Angye

Colombian project client Inclusive Income Protection Program, Mexico City, Mexico