Context
Across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and North America, millions of displaced women, children, and youth face persistent barriers to safety, health, and opportunity. Too often, their specific needs are overlooked in humanitarian responses, leaving them vulnerable and underserved. With expertise spanning economic empowerment, social inclusion, justice, sexual and reproductive health, and protection from gender-based violence, this project develops and scales approaches that transform humanitarian systems, ensuring that displaced women and girls are not only visible but central to shaping a more just and effective humanitarian response.
Goals
- Implement the I’m Here Operational Approach in targeted contexts to improve the safety, health, and socioeconomic well-being of displaced adolescents.
- Expand the use of the Refugee Self-Reliance Initiative and Self-Reliance Index to improve displaced women’s household resilience, empowerment, and mental health.
- Conduct rigorous research on the gendered impacts of displacement and migration, strengthening humanitarian actors’ knowledge and accountability to women and girls.
Activities
Myriad Canada’s project with the Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) will implement a combination of operational programming, self-reliance initiatives, and research to achieve project goals.
- Through the I’m Here Operational Approach, tools will be contextualized and translated, data will be collected directly with displaced adolescents, and targeted programming will be delivered to strengthen their safety, health, and socioeconomic well-being, with findings shared widely among humanitarian actors.
- The Refugee Self-Reliance Initiative (RSRI) will be advanced by evaluating entrepreneurship programs for displaced women-led households, examining the relationship between psychosocial well-being and self-reliance, and testing the feasibility of the Self-Reliance Index as a measurement tool across diverse contexts.
- Research on the gendered impact of displacement and migration will be conducted, beginning with desk reviews and field studies, leading to a comprehensive report with actionable recommendations. Findings will be disseminated to service providers, donors, and policymakers, and stakeholders will be engaged to translate evidence into improved policies and practices that strengthen accountability to women and girls.
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Key Performance Indicators to be Reached (KPIs)
- Awareness raised among service providers and the philanthropic community of specific needs of displaced women and girls
- Humanitarian effectiveness improved by influencing an enabling environment that is more responsive to the needs of displaced women and girls
- Improved household self-reliance, mental health, and empowerment for households where displaced women members run businesses
Myriad Canada is working with Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) on this project, a nonprofit whose mission is to improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children, and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. The Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) researches their needs, identifies solutions, and advocates for programs and policies to strengthen their resilience and drive change in humanitarian practice. WRC’s vision is a world in which internally displaced and refugee women, children, and youth are safe, healthy, and self-reliant; have their human rights respected and protected; and inform and drive their solutions and development.
Myriad Canada’s role is to carry out charitable activities across the globe in accordance with its charitable purposes. We control and monitor the use of funds and the progress of charitable activities to ensure that donations made to Myriad Canada have the greatest impact in accordance with donors expressed wishes. As a member of the Myriad Alliance with offices in Canada, the US, Europe, Asia and Australia, Myriad Canada has a vast international network and extensive practical expertise.
How to support this project?
By credit card: At the top right of this page, indicate the amount you wish to donate, and make the donation online by credit card. You will receive a receipt for tax purposes by e-mail just a few minutes after making the donation. It is simple and quick!
By cheque:
- Make your cheque out to Myriad Canada.
- IMPORTANT NOTE: We receive a lot of cheques! You must please indicate “Project G412 – Women’s Refugee Commission” in the memo line of your cheque to ensure that it is allocated correctly.
- Mail your cheque to: Myriad Canada, 1 Place Ville Marie, Suite 1670, Montreal, QC, H3B 2B6, Canada.
By Direct Deposit:
- For transfer instructions, please email or call Caroline Chaulet: caroline@myriadcanada.org or +1 438 300 8122.
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