On the sidelines of the 2018 UN General Assembly (UNGA), the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative (AHI), RefugePoint and the Women’s Refugee Commission partnered to host a forum titled, “Better Lives Now: Leveraging Refugees’ Talents” to launch the Refugee Self-Reliance Initiative, a joint effort by a coalition of organisations, government agencies, foundations, research institutes and other partners focused on promoting opportunities for refugees to become self-reliant.

Amy Slaughter, Chief Strategy Officer, RefugePoint: "The Refugee Self-Reliance Initiative is where the conversation is happening globally on refugees self-reliance and one of the most important thing that we can do is to sustain the attention and the momentum and the interest in this topic so that the global commitments don't fade."