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.

​Halla Tómasdóttir, Director, The B-Team: "It's very clear that the current way of addressing these issues [concerning refugees] is not going to work. We have to become creative and courageous and come up with better solutions and allow people to bring themselves to have a purpose in life."