Catalyzing Integration Outcomes for Migrants and Refugees The Potential of Results-Based Financing

It has become increasingly protracted, complex, and multidimensional. While often addressed primarily as a humanitarian emergency, migration also holds significant potential to drive economic growth, strengthen public systems, and promote social development in both origin and destination countries. Realizing this potential requires moving beyond short-term crisis responses toward long-term, systemic approaches that foster the sustainable social and economic integration of migrants in host countries.

This report, developed by Instiglio with the support of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation presents Results-Based Financing (RBF) as a strategic tool to support that shift. By linking funding to measurable outcomes, rather than to inputs or activities, RBF offers a flexible, efficient, and accountable way to enhance the effectiveness of migrant integration policies. RBF helps governments, donors, and implementing partners align their efforts, strengthen performance, and ensure that limited resources lead to concrete improvements in the wellbeing of both migrants and host communities. In doing so, RBF supports integration programs that not only reduce vulnerability, but also enable countries to fully harness the benefits of migration.

The report specifically explores how RBF can be applied to strengthen public policies across three core areas of migrant integration: legal regularization, economic inclusion, and access to essential services such as housing, healthcare, and education. It highlights practical examples, particularly from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), showing how RBF has been used to tackle integration challenges and deliver meaningful, measurable improvements in the wellbeing of migrants and the communities that host them.