The Refugee Self-Reliance Initiative (RSRI) partners with NGOs, refugee-led and community-based organizations, governments, funders, academics, think tanks, UN agencies, and other multilateral actors to advance self-reliance opportunities for refugees.
OUR WORK
The Refugee Self-Reliance Initiative (RSRI) convenes and amplifies its members' work in critical areas of policy, practice, and research while advancing the knowledge, tools, standards, and legal frameworks that support self-reliance.
Through these tactics, the RSRI aims to embed effective self-reliance approaches in humanitarian and development responses to displacement.
LEARNING
We work to influence and improve policies and practices that promote refugee self-reliance by strengthening research, evidence, and data.
PROGRAMMING
We strive to increase awareness, alignment, and capacity of stakeholders to expand the scope and quality of self-reliance programming.
POLICY & ADVOCACY
We endorse and advocate for policies and practices that provide appropriate funding, programming, and support for refugee self-reliance.
OUR THEORY OF CHANGE
Our Theory of Change is based on the recognition that collective action is necessary to transform and shift the refugee response paradigm away from a ‘care and maintenance’ model towards a model built on self-reliance that responds to the urgency and scale of forced displacement today.
