Project Understanding: Moving from Crisis Response to Building Refugee Resilience

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Refugee assistance was established as a humanitarian intervention to provide a lifeline to people temporarily seeking refuge. Organizations are now able to quickly deploy high-quality responses such as safe drinking water, nutritious food and provisional shelter to refugees in urgent need throughout the world. This is a major achievement, but the realities of contemporary refugee experiences illustrate that immediate assistance is only the first of many challenges.