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IKEA Announces New Commitments for Forcibly Displaced
December 14,
2023 by HFBusiness Staff in Business Strategy, Industry 
Ingka Group has supported 2,935 asylum seekers and refugees from 2019 to 2023 with 54% finding jobs inside or outside IKEA over the past three years. Additionally, since 2022, the company has directly hired 332 forcibly displaced people through its Displaced Talent program.
“We’re humble, yet proud that our commitment to integrate refugees into the workforce is proving to be robust, sustainable and built for the long-term”, says Tolga Öncü, Ingka retail manager.
“We are absolutely convinced that refugees and asylum seekers bring skills, diversity and different perspectives that benefit our business and society.”
Additionally, Ingka Group has engaged with more than 700 businesses to inspire them to open pathways to decent work for refugees and sharing the lessons learned in a Skills for Employment toolkit.
At the same time, other IKEA entities today announce new commitments for forcibly displaced people.
~ IKEA Social Entrepreneurship along with Cisco Foundation and implementation partner NESsT, will support an initiative that aims to create 3.000 long-term jobs that positively impact over 5.000 refugees and migrants in Poland and Romania.
~ Inter IKEA Group continues its partnership with Jordan River Foundation, creating long term employment for 400 refugee women and local female artisans and co-creating products for IKEA.
Also, the IKEA Foundation, the strategic philanthropy that operates independent from IKEA, announced that they have surpassed their commitment to refugees.
The Foundation exceeded its 2019 commitment of EUR 100 million to empower refugees and is currently implementing multiyear projects that serve more than 70,000 refugees and their host communities in East Africa.
According to the latest UNHCR estimations, by the end of September 2023, 114 million people around the world have been forced to flee their homes, with last year seeing the biggest jump in the number of forcibly displaced people ever.