We don't just attend the conversation. We help shape it.
We don't stop at frameworks, we bring them to life. Translating the principles of MRP into everyday practice: in our programmes, partnerships, and communities we work with. Because a right that stays on paper changes nothing.
International Framework
In December 2025, the Independent Declaration on the Right of Persons with Experience of Forced Displacement or Statelessness to Participate in Decisions That Affect Them was launched at the Global Refugee Forum Progress Review in Geneva. We don't just endorse it, we build our work around it.
Participation is not a courtesy extended to refugees. It is a legal right, a normative right, a human right. We also apply the Guidelines on Co-produced Research with Refugees and Other People with Lived Experience of Displacement because the standard isn't working on communities. It's working with them.
The global conversation about refugee participation is evolving. International bodies, governments, and civil society organisations are being asked to move from rhetoric to accountability. Tawasul Foundation is part of that shift.
We engage with this framework because it reflects who we are and what we believe: that every person with lived experience of displacement has not only the right to be heard, but the knowledge and capacity to lead.
Our work is built on a simple conviction: frameworks only matter when they change how you show up.
The people most affected by displacement are our most important collaborators, in programme design, advocacy, and community dialogue.
Participation must be embedded in law and policy, not left to individual goodwill. We push for frameworks that make refugee participation a requirement, not an exception.
Through mentorship, knowledge-sharing, and network-building, we invest in displaced leaders so their voices carry weight in every room.
