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. 

Our Vision
Our vision is a world in which refugee and internally displaced women, children and youth:

  • are safe, healthy and self-reliant;
  • have their human rights respected and protected; and
  • inform and drive their own solutions and development.

Why We Do It
There are currently more than 66 million persons forcibly displaced worldwide. 

Read more: https://www.womensrefugeecommission.org/about

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Commit resources to support strengthened disability data
The Women’s Refugee Commission commits to collect, analyze, and report sex-, age-, and disability disaggregated data in its research, advocacy, and program work to strengthen the quality and inclusiveness of our activities. 

Timeframe and/or implementation plan
We commit to this throughout all WRC’s programs and research.

Theme: Data Disaggregation
Year: 2018
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The WRC will provide technical expertise and leadership on gender equality, gender-based violence prevention and response, and women’s participation and empowerment in the IASC Guidelines on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action. The WRC also commits to ensuring that the new IASC Guidelines will be gender sensitive.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan 
End of 2018: piloting and testing of initial draft guidelines;
Early 2019: Finalization of IASC Guidelines.

Theme: Women and Girls with Disabilities
Year: 2018
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The Women’s Refugee commits to supporting the IASC Task Team in developing the IASC Guidelines on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action. We commit to engage organizations of women with disabilities from conflict-affected countries in the development and support the guidelines roll-out and implementation through 2020. We will assist with the piloting of the guidelines through supporting innovative partnerships between women’s DPO’s and GBV actors in humanitarian settings. 

Timeframe and/or implementation plan
End of 2018: piloting and testing of initial draft guidelines 
Early 2019: Finalization of IASC Guidelines.

Theme: Conflict and Humanitarian Contexts
Year: 2018