Annual Reports
Research Reports
yoga alliance impact report
Through our partnership with Yoga Alliance Foundation (YAF), we have brought trauma-informed yoga to students, staff, and para-counselors on our campus. In order to assess our impact, we utilized YAF’s toolkit to measure and evaluate the effectiveness of our program. We are pleased with the positive impact the program has had on our students’ physical and mental well-being.
Stories from the Creative Economy: Making the Case for Refugee Artisan Enterprise
In this set of case studies, Stories from the Creative Economy: Making the Case for Refugee Artisan Enterprise (2019), the Aspen Institute’s Artisan Alliance traveled across the globe conducting field visits with three diverse social enterprises working with refugee artisans in Africa and the Middle East, Indego Africa, RefuSHE, and the Jordan River Foundation During these field visits, the Artisan Alliance learned more about the social and economic impact artisan work has on refugees by surveying program participants, conducting in-depth interviews, and documenting the insights of relevant stakeholders from the public and private sphere.
It is our hope that these studies build the knowledge base on refugee artisan businesses and provide actionable new ideas for supporters, investors, and other artisan enterprises.
Increasing Access to Economic Empowerment Opportunities for Refugee Girls in Nairobi: Insights & Lessons for Refugee Service Providers
In December 2017, RefuSHE partnered with the Mastercard Foundation to expand our approach to livelihoods development for unaccompanied refugee girls and young women in Kenya. RefuSHE conducted an assessment to identify market opportunities and in-demand skills for the unique population we serve, and then used the assessment findings to design and implement new components to our economic empowerment programming.
Increasing Access to Economic Empowerment Opportunities for Refugee Girls in Nairobi: Insights & Lessons for Refugee Service Providers (2019) provides key takeaways and lessons learned from the one-year partnership with Mastercard Foundation.
Our Impact
Since 2008, RefuSHE has provided services to over 3,150 young refugee women, girls, and their children in East Africa, including 1,000 girls in the Girls Empowerment Program (GEP) and 884 children and young women in the Safe House.
We’ve also reached over 25,000 urban refugees and host community members and over 1,000 government officials through our Gender-Based Violence/Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (GBV/SEA) prevention workshops and other Community-Based Protection & Livelihoods initiatives in Nairobi.