Humanitarian crises impact women, girls, and marginalized groups differently and disproportionately. In emergencies, women and girls face heightened risks of sexual and gender-based violence, reduced access to lifesaving health services, greater food insecurity, and systematic exclusion from the decisions that shape the response around them. Too often, these needs are treated as secondary in the rush to mobilize aid. WRC's role is to make sure that does not happen. As an advocacy and research organization with more than 35 years of experience at the intersection of gender and displacement, WRC generates the evidence, builds the coalitions, and engages the policy spaces needed to ensure that the specific needs of women and girls are front and center from the earliest stages of any emergency. We track what is happening on the ground, hold systems accountable, and work to ensure that women and girls are not just recipients of humanitarian response but active partners in shaping it.
