A software platform that makes existing services more effective
The Global Refugee Network is our flagship platform. It aligns employment, training, migration and settlement providers around each refugee, so the whole sector can work from the same consented data.
A disconnected crisis
There is no shared infrastructure that lets organisations coordinate services around a refugee's qualifications, skills, experience and aspirations.
- Duplicated effort
- Multiple providers deliver overlapping services without coordination, leading to waste and gaps in coverage.
- High cost per outcome
- Fragmented systems mean every organisation builds its own tools, driving up cost and reducing impact per dollar.
- Siloed services
- Employment, training, migration and settlement operate independently, with no alignment around the individual.
Each side can find the other
For refugees
- Register once
- Anyone can create a profile of their skills, qualifications, experience and goals, wherever they are and whatever their visa status.
- Choose who sees you
- Organisations see an anonymised profile. The full profile is only shared when the refugee approves the request, and every decision leaves an audit trail.
For service providers
- Find candidates
- Search anonymised profiles across the network. AI matching ranks candidates and explains why each one fits.
- Be seen
- List your employment, training, migration or settlement services so refugees on the network can find them. We help you connect, even if you have no engineers of your own.
See matching at work
Start from a job, or describe the experience you need in your own words. GRN searches for the specific skills you asked for and for candidates whose experience means something similar, then explains why each one fits.
What the platform does
- Service connectivity
- API integrations connect refugees with legal support, education, networking, identity verification and settlement assistance.
- Candidate agency
- Refugees choose if and when to share their profiles, keeping full control over their data and opportunities.
- Intelligent matching
- One profile can be matched to training, mentoring, employment and migration opportunities at the same time.
- Data protection
- Secure, programmatic data access across trusted partners, with rigorous privacy standards throughout.
- Open-source foundation
- Built on the proven Talent Catalog codebase and professionally maintained for the whole humanitarian sector.
More impact per dollar
In a constrained funding environment, one shared platform replaces dozens of siloed tools.
Every provider that joins can reach the same candidates for employment, training, migration and settlement, and refugees keep full ownership of their profiles. Because the platform is reused across the sector, each improvement benefits every organisation on it.
Where GRN comes from
The Global Refugee Network builds on the proven, open-source Talent Catalog software, originally developed by Talent Beyond Boundaries and Cameron Foundation. GRN extends it beyond labour mobility to cover the whole refugee journey and opportunity set. Talent Beyond Boundaries continues to lead the world in refugee labour mobility on the same codebase.
Open Pathway Collective is responsible for the Talent Catalog repository on GitHub and is its primary active contributor, so the technology stays professionally maintained for the benefit of the whole humanitarian sector.