Reports and Resources
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IRC Emergency Watchlist 2020
Watchlist 2020 highlights the countries where the IRC assesses there to be the greatest risk of a major deterioration in the humanitarian situation in the coming year.
Open letter to EU leaders ahead of the Global Refugee Forum
Ahead of the Global Refugee Forum David Miliband's writes to EU leaders urging them to address the glaring gaps in Europe’s own response to migration.
Ruled out of work: Refugee women’s legal right to work
This briefing assesses the impact of the law on refugee women’s right to work and access economic opportunities in high refugee hosting countries.
Ruled out of work: Refugee women’s legal right to work
This briefing assesses the impact of the law on refugee women’s right to work and access economic opportunities in high refugee hosting countries.
"We Build Bridges" Roadmap to the Sustainable and Responsible Financial Inclusion of Forcibly Displaced Persons
The IRC along with a coalition of actors is supporting the implementation of a Roadmap to the Sustainable and Responsible Financial Inclusion of FDPs, which offers a set of key policy recommendations for each relevant stakeholder group: governments, the private sector, humanitarian and development agencies, research organisations, and the standard setting bodies (SSBs).
The Role of the World Bank in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations
This note outlines the critical importance of World Bank investments in fragile states and crisis-related funding through IDA, offers a constructive critique and stock-taking of the Bank’s latest efforts and provides recommendations for the Bank and its shareholders to consider moving forward.
"The war destroyed our dreams" Why the international community should invest in Yemen's peace
The war in Yemen has turned the country into the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. A crisis that is man-made and predictable, and therefore one for which solutions are within reach. For nearly half a decade, the international community has held the country’s increasingly vulnerable population back from the brink of catastrophe with life- saving humanitarian assistance. Aid saves lives, but to address the factors which continue to drive the suffering of Yemeni civilians demands an urgent acceleration of efforts to reduce violence and secure peace.
No progress without peace: Failure to act will result in 20 years of child hunger in Yemen
In a report released today (3rd December) humanitarian agency, the International Rescue Committee (IRC), is calling on world leaders to catalyse opportunities for peace in Yemen and warning that failure to do so could lead to 20 years of rampant child hunger.
Safety First: Time to deliver on commitments to women and girls in crisis
This report highlights some of the links between GBV and key SDGs to show where GBV prevention and response needs to be integrated across sectors to address the double disadvantage faced by women and girls in crisis.
Shifting Social Norms: a gender analysis of time poverty, paid work and masculinity in Jordan
In 2018, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) assisted over 120,000 Syrian refugees and low-income Jordanians to access healthcare, protection, education and income generation opportunities.