Empowering refugee women
A resource kit to support refugee led work, address SGBV and barriers to participation.
A major outcome of  the project ‘Refugee Women and Girls, the Key to Implementing Commitments made in the Global Compact on Refugees’ the Resource Kit has been developed to support  work with unregistered and registered refugee-led organisations, and groups with diverse levels of education to identify context-specific barriers and solutions to: gender equality, participation, leadership, decision making, social inclusion and an improved response to sexual and gender based violence.
The Resource kit was developed by Associate Professor Eileen Pittaway and Dr Linda Bartolomei, Forced Migration Research Network, UNSW. Graphics by Damayanthi Muthukumarage and original web design by Anja Wendt. Supported by the Australian Federal Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
The Resource Kit contains 14 modules
Each module includes a set of PowerPoint slides with trainers’ notes, several tools, exercises and background readings.
- Structural barriers, including registration, for WRLOs
- Understanding gender equality
- Gender-based social barriers for WRLOs
- Age, gender and diversity
- Identifying the impacts of sexual and gender based violence
- Harnessing lived experience
- Working with refugee men as partners in gender equality
- Meaningful participation
- Effective partnerships
- The power of privilege
- From humanitarian aid to human rights based community development
- Succession planning
- Collective working, consortiums and governance
- Using an intersectional approach to develop a strategic plan
This is an iterative resource which will continue to be developed and improved through a series of workshops. It is based on our on-going work, and the analysis is ours.
For this reason we have used the first person to introduce the materials to you. We invite all stakeholders to share suggestions for adaptations and or extensions based on their experiences of using the tool and resources and to showcase examples of own good practice.
Please submit suggested amendments and models of good practice to Linda Bartolomei at linda.bartolomei@unsw.edu.au.