The Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children is engaged in a three-year research and advocacy project aimed at improving the effectiveness of economic programming targeting refugee, internally displaced and returning women and youth. The project includes ten field assessments covering camps, urban settings and early return contexts. Under the program, six innovative pilot projects have been funded to allow operational organizations to try out new approaches and capture new learning.
The program will culminate in the production of a comprehensive livelihoods handbook which will be rolled out in three regional workshops in West Africa, East Africa, and Southeast Asia in 2009. The rollout of the handbook will be accompanied by an extensive advocacy campaign targeting donors and practitioners on how to improve funding for and design and implementation of economic programs targeting displaced populations. The aim of the Women’s Commission project is to bring about global systemic change in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of economic programming focused on improving both effectiveness and sustainability in conflict and post-conflict settings.
Dale Buscher
daleb@womenscommission.org
August 2006 - October 2009
