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, Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) 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
- Conduct research on the gendered impacts of displacement and migration, strengthening humanitarian actors’ knowledge and accountability to women and girls.
- Expand the use of the Refugee Self-Reliance Initiative and Self-Reliance Index to improve displaced women’s household resilience, empowerment, and mental health.
- Improve the safety, health, and socioeconomic well-being of displaced adolescent girls by partnering with local organizations to implement WRC’s I’m Here Operational Approach in targeted contexts
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.
- WRC will drive critical research on the gendered impacts of displacement and migration, conducting field studies that will culminate in a comprehensive report with actionable recommendations. WRC will strategically disseminate findings to service providers, donors, and policymakers, then mobilize stakeholders to transform this evidence into stronger policies and practices that deliver real accountability to women and girls.
- WRC co-founded the Refugee Self-Reliance Initiative, a global network of over 400 organizations. Through this initiative, WRC will advance two key efforts: first, supporting use of the Self-Reliance Index, a first-of-its-kind measurement tool to assess self-reliance across diverse contexts; and second, conducting research on effective interventions that help displaced families sustainably rebuild their lives.
- Support WRC to expand the I’m Here Operational Approach, which equips humanitarian actors with tools to work directly with adolescent girls, listen to their needs, and co-design solutions to the risks they face. This targeted programming strengthens girls’ safety, health, and socioeconomic well-being, with findings shared widely across the humanitarian sector to drive broader adoption and impact.
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 displaced women and girls.
Myriad Canada is working on these projects with Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) , a nonprofit whose mission is to improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children, and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. 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.
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