The IRC has been working with community organizers to hold village meetings to encourage men and women to talk about the importance of setting goals collectively, as a family. 

Attacks near their home in Sudan's Nuba Mountains forced Elisa and her family to flee to the Yida refugee camp two months ago.

Christine Akello is a member of an IRC Village Savings and Loans Association in northern Uganda that is helping families who were uprooted by the LRA conflict to recover and rebuild.

Women who fled the crisis in South Kordofan collect water from taps in the Yida refugee camp. Most of the new arrivals in the camp are women and children.

Many of the newly arrived refugees in Hagadera, over 80 percent women and children, find no other option than to settle on the edge of the over-congested camps.