The Innovations for Poverty Action and Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Displaced Livelihoods Initiative (DLI) supports rigorous impact evaluations, pilots, exploratory studies, and infrastructure and public goods projects, to inform policies and programs on sustainable livelihoods for displaced populations and host communities. Funding for DLI comes from the IKEA Foundation.

A portion of funding this round is earmarked for projects that include researchers with lived experience of displacement and/or work in partnership with refugee-led organizations. As part of this commitment, Round V also introduced two new funding types, evidence use grants and conference travel grants. You can learn more about these new proposal types here.

Supported projects will contribute to innovation and generalizable learning on program effectiveness, identify the mechanisms underpinning programming, and address potential barriers to impact. Priority areas of research include:

• resilience
• entrepreneurship
• wage employment
• social cohesion, inclusion, and norms
• rights and regulations

DLI’s Fifth Call for Proposals is now closed. Awards for Round V will be announced in September 2026.