We mobilize the business community to improve the lives and livelihoods of over
30 million refugees forcibly displaced from their home countries.
A New Approach to Supporting Refugees
With more and more refugees displaced for longer periods of time, companies have a critical role to play in helping them integrate economically in their new host communities. We believe that businesses can most sustainably include refugees by leveraging their core business operations - by engaging refugees as potential employees, entrepreneurs and consumers. We believe these steps are good for refugees, good for the communities that host them, and good for business.
Hiring & Training
Companies can harness refugees’ talent by training, hiring, and integrating them into their own workforce.
Leveraging Supply Chains
Companies can encourage their suppliers to hire refugees, and they can source more from businesses employing refugees.
A Global Business Network
The Tent Partnership for Refugees is made up of more than 170 major companies committed to including refugees. Our members are based all over the world, and span industries from consumer goods and technology, to financial and professional services. Joining Tent is free of charge.
Hiring & Training
In Canada, Starbucks has committed to employing 1,000 refugees by 2022. This is part of Starbucks’s global effort to hire refugees around the world.
Supply Chain
H&M works with 20 suppliers employing about 500 refugees. By 2025, H&M has committed to doubling the number of suppliers it works with on this effort from 20 to 40, to create jobs for at least 2,000 refugees in Turkey.
Entrepreneurship
Generali has committed to empowering refugees to set up 500 new businesses by 2020. Starting in Germany and France, refugees can access a program of incubation, training, and funding to equip them with the skills, resources, and tools they need to grow their businesses.
Tailoring Products
Telefonica has committed to providing up to 10,000 Venezuelan refugees in Colombia access to affordable telecommunications services, including by providing internet hotspots at shelters for Venezuelans and offering subsidized mobile plans.