Understanding Financial Health of Refugees in Jordan: Empirical FINDings II
By Swati Mehta Dhawan and Hans-Martin Zademach
Abstract: This report is a compilation of the empirical findings from the in-depth interviews undertaken in Jordan in the context of the research project “Finance in Displacement (FIND): Exploring and strengthening financial lives of forcibly displaced persons”. This report builds on the findings presented in an earlier report based on interviews conducted in the first of the three rounds of in-depth interviews as part of the FIND research project. In this piece, we bring together insights from the second and third rounds of interviews. The key aim of this report is to present further empirical findings on the financial lives of research participants in Jordan building upon the theoretical frameworks shared in the previous report and identifying some new ones. We adapt the Financial Health Framework to the context of displacement to understand what factors affect refugees’ ability to achieve both their financial and non-financial outcomes that justify financial service development such as to meet basic needs, manage debt, overcome financial setbacks, invest in the future, and broaden financial horizons. With this objective, this report will examine five high-level findings that summarize our key conclusions and recommendations to guide policy and programmatic interventions to improve financial lives of refugees in Jordan.
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