Women's Refugee Commission
- A Advocate
- R Researcher
Description
The Women's Refugee Commission improves the lives and protects the rights of women, children and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. We research their needs, identify solutions and advocate for programs and policies to strengthen their resilience and drive change in humanitarian practice. Since our founding in 1989, we have been a leading expert on the needs of refugee women and children, and the policies that can protect and empower them.
Primary Functions
- Awareness Raising/Advocacy
- Capacity building/Technical assistance
- Research - policy analysis
Secondary Functions
- Networking/Convening
- Research - project evaluation
Geographic Scope
- Global / regional
Areas of work Back to Top
Education topics addressed
Other skills
- Life skills/sexuality education
- Rights/empowerment education
Cross-cutting topics addressed
- Early/child marriage
- Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
- Emergencies and protracted crises
- Empowerment
- Gender equality
- HIV and STIs
- Masculinities/boys
- Migration
- Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
- Violence (at home, in relationships)
Funders and partners Back to Top
Current girls’ education funders
Current girls' education partners
Locations and contact information Back to Top
Website
Headquarters location(s)
- New York, New York, United States of America
Office location(s)
- United States of America
Contacts
- Janna Metzler
- Associate Director, Sexual and Reproductive Health Program
- info@wrcommission.org
- Women's Refugee Commission
Locations of current girls’ education work
Map showing countries (listed below) where the organization is involved with girls' education programs
- Bangladesh
- Iraq
- Lebanon