Comparative Skills Profiling Surveys and Assessment of Skills Recognition Opportunities Facilitating Refugees and Asylum Seekers’ Access to the Labour Market in South Africa and Zambia

"By the end of 2020, Southern Africa hosted more than one million refugees and asylum-seekers."

The Comparative Skills Profiling Surveys and Assessment of Skills Recognition Opportunities Facilitating Refugees and Asylum Seekers’ Access to the Labour Market in South Africa and Zambia report forms part of the consultancy Comparative skills profiling surveys and assessment of skills recognition opportunities facilitating refugees and asylum seekers’ access to the labour market in South Africa and Zambia. JET Education Services was commissioned by the ILO and the UNHCR to undertake the research, which forms part of the Southern Africa Migration Management (SAMM) project. The SAMM Project is funded by the EU and implemented by the ILO, the IOM, the UNODC and the UNHCR. Its overall objective is to improve migration management in the Southern Africa and Indian Ocean region and to contribute to achieving the 2030 Development Agenda.

Researchers: James Keevy, Andrew Paterson, Emmerentia Erasmus, Chana Chelemu-Jere, Hazel Mugo, Noxolo Xaba, Cody Costakis, Patrick Molokwane and Morris Phundulu

Fieldwork support in South Africa: Kedibone Boka, Sadhana Manik and Arorisoe Sibanda
Fieldwork support in Zambia: Robinson Majambere, Ibrahim Kasongo, Erick Mukendi and Fidel Tshinguja
Editing: Maureen Mosselson

Read the report here