The objective of this case study is to identify lessons learned and recommendations for improving the effectiveness of cash-based interventions in mitigating GBV risks and building women and girls’ resilience.

Earlier this year the IRC in Greece hosted cooking workshops for refugee and local women living on the island of Lesvos. Learn Koteu's Spinach and tuna with African fufu recipe. 

Earlier this year the IRC in Greece hosted cooking workshops for refugee and local women living on the island of Lesvos. Learn Elisabeth shares a spinach stew with beef and shrimp recipe.

Over the past decade, the International Rescue Committee has been working with communities and tribal and cultural leaders in northern Uganda to reduce violence against women and girls and increase accountability of perpetrators.

As we mark 12 years of the Syrian conflict, a new report documents how targeted violence against health care personnel and infrastructure has impeded vital sexual and reproductive health (SRH) care, resulting in far-reaching tolls on the health and wellbeing of women, girls, and health care professionals. The devastating earthquake that struck southern Türkyie and northern Syria in February 2023 has compounded already precarious access to health care in the region, contributing to the collapse of the fragile health care system in northwest Syria.

The IRC asked Syrian mothers in Jordan how they are managing to raise their daughters to be strong, hopeful and resilient young women.

In 2021 the IRC held cooking workshops for refugee and Greek women living on the Island of Lesvos in Greece. The workshops became a meeting point for different people, cultures, stories and memories. It promoted common experiences and mutual understanding through the universal language of food. The recipes shared, personal to the women who took part in the workshops, have been collected together as part of this cookbook. We hope you find a special recipe in this cookbook, from Afghanistan, Burundi, Cameroon, Greece, Iran, South Africa or Syria. They are all Recipes from Home. 

Five reasons why Afghanistan remains within the top 3 countries most at risk of worsening humanitarian crisis in the International Rescue Committee’s Emergency Watchlist.