WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP
Women-Led Organizations Should Shape the Responses They Lead.
Refugee women-led organizations are already responding to challenges within their communities. Our work is to strengthen their access to resources, organizational systems, partnerships, and opportunities to influence decisions.
About the Program
Investing in Leadership That Already Exists.
Across refugee communities, women-led organizations are mobilizing people, responding to local needs, and developing solutions rooted in lived experience.
Despite their contributions, many face barriers to accessing funding, building institutional capacity, gaining recognition, and participating in decisions that shape the refugee response.
Through the WRLO Program, FUSE works to address these barriers by investing in organizations already leading change.
We provide flexible resources, strengthen organizational systems, connect organizations with partners, and create opportunities for collective learning, visibility, and influence.
Our goal is not to lead on behalf of refugee women-led organizations, but to strengthen the conditions that enable them to lead.
Why This Program Exists
Changing Who Gets Heard, Trusted and Resourced.
Refugee women-led organizations understand the challenges facing their communities because they are part of those communities.
Yet the systems that determine access to funding, partnerships, and decision-making often leave these organizations at the margins.
We believe locally led solutions become stronger when refugee women-led organizations have the resources, recognition, and influence to shape the responses affecting their communities.
That is why our work focuses not only on strengthening individual organizations, but also on changing the relationships and systems around them.
How we work
Areas of support.
Resources and Funding Access
We provide unrestricted subgrants and connect refugee women-led organizations with funding opportunities that enable them to lead and expand their community-based solutions.
Organizational Strengthening
We support organizations to strengthen governance, legal compliance, financial management, proposal development, leadership, and other internal systems needed to manage resources and sustain their work.
Partnerships and Collaboration
We create opportunities for refugee women-led organizations, donors, humanitarian actors, and development partners to connect, build trust, share experiences, and explore collaboration.
Visibility and Collective Voice
We document learning, share experiences, and create platforms where refugee women-led organizations can communicate their work, increase visibility, and contribute to wider conversations.
Advocacy and Systems Influence
We engage in policy dialogue, advocacy, and partnerships that promote greater recognition and meaningful participation of refugee-led organizations in decisions affecting their communities.
Strengthen Refugee Women's Leadership With Us.
Creating a more locally led refugee response requires partnerships that recognize the knowledge, leadership, and contributions of refugee women-led organizations. We welcome opportunities to collaborate, share learning, and strengthen the systems that support their leadership.
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