Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network member
On Monday, October 11, 2021, RDI was honored to be formally inducted as an APRRN member. Established in November 2008, the Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network (APRRN) is a network of over 200 civil society organizations and individuals covering 25 countries in the Asia Pacific region and beyond.1 APRRN members are diverse, comprising service providers, human rights advocacy groups, research institutions, faith-based organizations, lawyers and law firms providing pro-bono legal aid, refugee community-based organizations (CBOs), and refugees themselves. APRRN aims to advance the rights of refugees and other people in need of protection in the Asia Pacific region. APRRN envisions…
Read moreNew RDI Partner Skilled Migrant and Refugee Technicians
Resilience Development Initiative and Skill Migrant and Refugee Technicians (SMART) had agreed to enter Collaboration on February 1, 2021. SMART a non-profit organization, established by expert refugees in Indonesia. The mission is to use technology and the internet to empower the refugee community and serve people and organizations that want to grow up fast. SMART’s abilities and experience approve that migration with all its difficulties and limitations has failed to keep us from progress and moving forward. The collaboration is underlined by the aims to increase awareness, knowledge-base, public discourse of urban refugees, and the empowerment of refugees through the use…
Read moreAPRRN Short Course on Refugee Rights and Advocacy
As a person who has just been exposed to or is involved in refugee issues, Jean Sonia considers herself fortunate to join the APRRN Short Course on Refugee Rights and Advocacy held from 24 November to 18 December 2020. This online course has helped her delve deeper into refugee issues through lectures, in-depth sessions with practitioners, case studies with small group works, and an individual task on chosen advocacy issues. She gained much new knowledge such as refugee rights, policy advocacy, elements of advocacy planning, gender and intersectionality in refugee advocacy and forced migration issues. This course also allowed her…
Read moreNetworking Grant by Royal Academy Engineering
Building a community of practice on urban refugee issues for a better and more inclusive urban governance Resilience Development Initiative is honored to receive a networking grant from Royal Academy Engineering (RAEng) for the project “Building a Community of Practice on Urban Refugee Issues for a Better and more Inclusive Urban Governance”. Royal Academy of Engineering is a charity that harnesses the power of engineering to build a sustainable society and an inclusive economy that works for everyone. The objective of this project is to build a community of practice (CoP), or a network of researchers, practitioners, and observers of…
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