How displaced people are driving local economies | Julienne Oyler
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🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
The number of forcibly displaced people across the world is on the rise. While aid systems often focus on providing basic necessities like food and shelter, Julienne Oyler and her team at the nonprofit Inkomoko have a more ambitious plan: invest in refugee entrepreneurs in order to help them build their businesses, uplift their communities and gain access to financial services. She describes how displaced people are already driving local economies — and shows what it will take to bring their innovations to scale. (This ambitious idea is part of The Audacious Project, TED’s initiative to inspire and fund global change.)
Then Modupe talks about the ways investors can start supporting people with lived experienced on how to improve local economy.
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| 0:00.0 | Right now, over 117 million people across the globe have been forcibly displaced from their |
| 0:07.4 | homes and homelands. That number has steadily risen over the past 20 years, and it's only going to |
| 0:13.6 | increase with the start of new wars and the advancing climate crisis. It's estimated that one in 10 of us will be displaced in the next 25 years. |
| 0:24.3 | But even as this issue spreads, I often see others pushing displaced people away. I see a lot of |
| 0:31.0 | people ignoring or demeaning them instead of taking a moment to get to know them beyond these |
| 0:36.6 | traumatic incidents. |
| 0:38.2 | Navigating these situations calls for resourcefulness and resilience, |
| 0:42.0 | and we can learn a lot from displaced communities. |
| 0:45.1 | Understanding their lived experiences, providing new opportunities, |
| 0:49.1 | and investing in their futures can actually make the world a better place for all of us. |
| 0:56.6 | I'm a Dupacanola. This is Ted Business, a podcast from TED. |
| 1:01.7 | Our speaker today, Julianne Euler, is the CEO and co-founder of In Homoco, an organization that |
| 1:08.9 | provides training, consulting, and access to finance across |
| 1:13.2 | refugee and host communities in Africa. Julianne has seen firsthand what transformation is possible |
| 1:19.6 | when people provide long-term investment in the talents and ideas of displaced people. |
| 1:25.6 | Julianne is looking beyond short-term humanitarian aid |
| 1:28.8 | and asking serious investors to do the same. |
| 1:32.4 | Then after the talk, I'll expand on Julianne's timely message. |
| 1:37.4 | But first, a quick break. |
| 1:43.7 | And now, Julianne Ouler takes the TED stage. |
| 1:50.2 | Recently, after a long day of back-to-back meetings, I decided to treat myself to some ice cream. |
| 1:56.8 | So, leaving the office, I crossed the busy road, lined with solar panel streetlights, |
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