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Powering opportunities for entrepreneurs in displacement settings

A Twitter Space event

Powering opportunities for entrepreneurs in displacement settings

Energy Access

Join a power-packed conversation live on Twitter Spaces between brilliant refugee and IDP innovators and the thought leaders working to support them.

Co-hosted by Ashden and Global Refugee-led Network (GRN)

The panel will discuss how energy access can enable livelihoods for refugees and internally displaced people, and the backing needed for energy entrepreneurs in displacement settings including camps and settlements.

Displaced people will share stories of how they’ve overcome barriers to establish and grow their work.

This event will be hosted live on Twitter.

You can sign up for a notification reminder to join us here.

Moderator: Anila Noor, Co-Founder, GRN

Speakers:

Innocent Tshilombo – Founder & MD, Kakuma Ventures
Razia Sultana – Director and Founder of the Rights for Women and Welfare Society (RW Welfare Society) & Director of Arakan Rohingya National Organization (ARNO), Bangladesh

Event Information

Moderator

Anila Noor

Co-Founder, Global Refugee-led Network (GRN)

GRN is a group of refugee-led initiatives, networks, and advocates that works with and for refugees to

increase refugee participation in shaping policies
build refugee capacity to engage locally, nationally, regionally, and globally
strategically advocate for and promote inclusive human rights approaches to forced displacement.

Speakers/panelists

Innocent Tshilombo

Founder & MD, Kakuma Ventures

Kenya’s Kakuma Ventures bring solar-powered internet access to residents in one of the world’s largest refugee camps. The business was founded by refugee Innocent Tshilombo and supports entrepreneurs across the Kakuma camp to set up and manage WiFi hotspots in their own neighbourhoods.

Razia Sultana

Director and Founder of the Rights for Women and Welfare Society (RW Welfare Society) & Director of Arakan Rohingya National Organization (ARNO)

The RWWS aims to prevent human trafficking and strengthens the psychosocial resilience among Rohingya refugee women. Sultana is a researcher, human-rights activist, lawyer, and educator with a focus on trauma, mass rape, and human trafficking of Rohingya women and girls. As a senior researcher, she has published several reports (e.g., ‘Rape by Command’) documenting systematic sexual violence by the Myanmar security forces. In 2019, she received the US State Department’s International Courage for Women Award.

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Powering opportunities for entrepreneurs in displacement settings

A Twitter Space event