World Bank maps social aid systems for displaced populations in Great Lakes region

The World Bank has documented how social protection systems (cash transfers, healthcare, food aid, employment programs) currently reach internally displaced people, returnees, and host communities across the Great Lakes region of Africa. This is baseline mapping work — understanding what exists now, who gets what, where the gaps are — which typically precedes recommendations for structural reform or new funding.

Displacement crises in the Great Lakes region have created millions of people without stable access to basic services; this document establishes what the actual protection landscape looks like today, which determines whether aid organizations know where to build, what's missing, and whether governments have capacity to integrate displaced populations into existing systems or need to build new ones.