Better Lives Now: Leveraging Refugees’ Talents is organized by RefugePoint and the Women’s Refugee Commission with support of the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative. The event is also produced in partnership with Club de Madrid, The Canadian Mission to the UN, MercyCorps, The B Team and Refugees Deeply.
 

RefugePoint

RefugePoint provides lasting solutions for the world’s most at-risk refugees. The organization identifies and protects refugees who have fallen through the cracks of humanitarian assistance and have no other options for survival, in particular women, children, and urban refugees.

In addition to the important work of improving the lives of individual refugees, RefugePoint works strategically to influence and improve refugee resettlement and protection systems, in order to assist exponentially more refugees. This includes influencing global policies and practices; developing new approaches and tools and training others to use them; promoting accountability and equity in refugee solutions; securing new financial resources for refugee solutions and influencing how the system deploys its resources; and opening up space for more nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to join the refugee solutions effort, leading to greater capacity in the system.

Women’s Refugee Commission

The Women's Refugee Commission improves the lives and protects the rights of women, children and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. The WRC researches their needs, identifies solutions and advocates for programs and policies to strengthen their resilience and drive change in humanitarian practice. Since its founding in 1989, the WRC has been a leading expert on the needs of refugee women and children, and the policies that can protect and empower them.

Reports and recommendations provided by the WRC drive changes to policies and practices. It was the first nonprofit to insist that sexual and reproductive health services are a basic need for refugee women and girls. The WRC works to reduce gender-based violence through safe economic opportunities, and develop tools that help gender-based violence practitioners to include women and girls with disabilities in their activities.

The Aurora Humanitarian Initiative

Founded on behalf of the survivors of the Armenian Genocide and in gratitude to their saviors, the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative seeks to empower modern-day saviors to offer life and hope to those in urgent need of basic humanitarian aid. It is an eight-year commitment (2015 to 2023), in remembrance of the eight years of the Armenian Genocide (1915-1923).

The Initiative looks to embrace Gratitude in Action, continuing the cycle of giving internationally. This is achieved through the Initiative’s various projects, including: The Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity, the Aurora Dialogues, the Aurora Humanitarian Index, the Gratitude Projects and the 100 LIVES Initiative.