Tailoring Aid to Urban Displacement, Child Protection & Women’s Empowerment
Enabling dignity in urban displacement
When co-designing and overseeing funded humanitarian projects, RPI:
- Engages refugee-led partners working in urban areas and informal settlements
- Facilitates community-led prioritization of challenges and solutions
- Advises on supporting access to urban services and filling gaps in service provision
- Promotes a rights-based approach to protect and empower rights-holders and engage and support duty-bearers
- Encourages attention to issues of gender, child protection, and access by persons with disabilities
- Advises on and supports project monitoring to ensure that results are effectively tracked and achieved
RPI and Basmeh and Zeitooneh co-designed a program that has helped thousands of Syrian refugees connect with key urban service providers in Turkey