TBB’s story began in a country that has faced and continues to face extraordinary instability and turmoil.

When we first arrived in the region, most saw only a crisis of displacement. But we saw a vast, untapped pool of professionals who were ready to contribute. Healthcare professionals, engineers, technicians, educators, and countless others whose careers had been put on pause, but whose skills remained.

Lebanon was where we first met the individuals who would prove our outside-the-box idea could work. It was also where the Talent Catalog first started to take shape.

Today, the Talent Catalog has more than 155,000 registered displaced professionals seeking the opportunity to rebuild their careers and futures.

What began in Lebanon later became the blueprint for expansion within the region — including Jordan, Egypt, and Turkey — and eventually to other parts of the world where displaced talent remained overlooked.

Jordan has been part of the TBB story from the very beginning.

As displaced professionals across the region searched for opportunities to rebuild their careers, Jordan became a critical hub for connection, coordination, and pathway development. It was one of the first places where TBB established a local team and began working directly alongside displaced talent navigating life in limbo.

Years later, in 2023, Jordan also became home to the first-ever Global Refugee Labour Mobility Summit in Amman — bringing together governments, employers, NGOs, and international organizations from around the world to expand employment pathways for displaced professionals.

Jordan continues to serve as a key hub for expanding displaced talent mobility across the region, supporting employer partnerships, training collaborations, and broader ecosystem coordination aimed at opening pathways worldwide.

Australia is where the initial idea of refugee labor mobility first became a reality. It was the destination for our very first candidate relocation, marking a global milestone that proved the model was not just theoretical, but practical and repeatable.

Since that first breakthrough, Australia has become a world leader in this space. Through the Skilled Refugee Labour Agreement Pilot, the Australian government has created a dedicated pathway that removes the barriers that often keep displaced talent sidelined. This programme has paved the way for hundreds of professionals to bring their expertise to Australian industries.

Thanks to the continued advocacy of TBB and our partners, we are hoping that this programme will become permanent in the near future with the support of the Australian government, ensuring these pathways remain open for the long term.

Canada has become one of the most ambitious and successful chapters in the TBB story. By moving from small-scale pilots to a national strategy, Canada has proven that refugee labour mobility can be a mainstream solution for a country's economic and social growth.

Central to this success is the Economic Mobility Pathways Pilot (EMPP), an innovative programme that allowed Canada to welcome hundreds of displaced professionals, with a significant number of candidates successfully relocating with their families to rebuild their lives and careers. As a result, in 2025 alone, Canada secured the highest number of job offers of any destination country in our network.

Alongside pathways like the Provincial Nominee Program and Francophone Mobility, skilled refugees are increasingly able to move to Canada for meaningful employment on the basis of their skills.

From healthcare and engineering to information technology and the skilled trades, displaced professionals are filling vital roles in communities from coast to coast to coast. 

Our hope is that this programme continues to move toward permanency within the Canadian immigration system. By making pathways more accessible to skilled refugees a standard part of the migration landscape, Canada is setting a global example of how to combine economic needs with humanitarian innovation.

The UK is currently at a pivotal moment for refugee labour mobility. After years of evidence building, the UK government formally committed to establishing a capped route for skilled refugees to relocate for work. This is a direct result of the Displaced Talent Mobility Pilot that TBB has implemented since 2021.

This progress has been driven by pioneering employers and powerful partnerships with government, including the devolved governments of Scotland and Wales, who have championed this model as a way to welcome new talent into their communities. Key to our success has been our collaboration with the NHS, where displaced healthcare professionals are now filling critical roles and providing vital care to patients across the country.

To date, almost 600 candidates with their families have successfully relocated to the UK — the first arriving in 2019 — bringing expertise in sectors ranging from healthcare to engineering to animation. This growing community of professionals share their lived experience of displacement and labour pathways to become mentors, leaders, and advocates, supporting the next generation of displaced talent to navigate their own journeys to the UK.

As we look ahead, we are focused on continued advocacy to ensure these pathways become a permanent and sustainable feature of the UK’s immigration landscape, proving that when the right doors are opened, displaced talent can thrive.

In 2021, TBB began laying the foundations for refugee labour mobility pathways in Latin America.

As displacement across the region continued to rise, Colombia became a key entry point to building partnerships. Home to one of the largest displaced populations in the world, the country highlighted both the urgency of the challenge and the enormous talent and expertise of displaced professionals across the region.

Working alongside partners TBB began expanding awareness of labour mobility pathways for displaced people across Latin America and the Caribbean.

We quickly learned that the region was filled with skilled professionals ready to contribute: healthcare professionals, construction workers, engineers, educators, technology specialists, and entrepreneurs, all seeking the opportunity to rebuild their futures with stability and dignity.

To date, displaced candidates from across Latin America have relocated through labour mobility pathways to countries including Canada, Australia, and Italy, where they are rebuilding their careers, supporting their families, and contributing their skills to communities in need.

As the region continues to face displacement driven by political instability, violence, and economic uncertainty, TBB is focused on scaling partnerships and building long-term pathways that create lasting opportunities for displaced talent across the Americas.

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