Empowering half a million displacement-affected children and youth to reach their full potential
Introduction
Right to Wellbeing 2025 (RtW25) is a four-year initiative from the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) to empower half a million displacement-affected children and youth to reach their full potential by significantly improving their wellbeing and learning outcomes.
RtW25 focuses on three main project activity pillars
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Raise awareness on key issues affecting the mental wellbeing of displaced children and youth and serve as a global advocate for a child’s right to wellbeing.
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Increase the access and availability of quality psychosocial support (PSS) services to displaced children and youth through an embedded approach to respond to increased PSS needs caused by conflict and crisis.
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Improve the quality of psychosocial support services (PSS) available to displaced children.
The impact of a crisis
Children in crisis-affected communities often witness extreme acts of violence and human suffering, sometimes leading to nightmares, flashbacks, and crippling grief. Disruption of basic needs caused by displacement, such as access to education, may deprive children of normal physical, social-emotional and psychological development. Without appropriate mitigations, long-term exposure to these high levels of stress can be particularly damaging to both physical and mental health for children and young people.
ⓘ Even after children have escaped the bombs and bullets, many are still haunted by the memories that follow them and without NRC’s help, many children will be left to face their trauma alone. Watch NRC’s commercial to learn more.
Introducing NRC’s Better Learning Programme
To empower half a million displacement-affected children and youth, we are utilising our flagship classroom-based psychosocial support intervention, the Better Learning Programme (BLP). For over a decade, the BLP has helped children recover from the traumatic events they experience during crisis and displacement. The BLP is flexible and adaptable, allowing us to quickly implement it in any emergency or under-resourced setting.
We constantly update the BLP with the latest research, field-based learning, and best practices through our long-standing research collaboration with the University of Tromsø. This ensures that our programme effectively addresses the needs of the communities we serve.
Progress so far
NRC’s Right to Wellbeing 2025 initiative is funded by
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Are you interested in partnering with the Norwegian Refugee Council to empower half a million displacement-affected children and youth through the Right to Wellbeing 2025 initiative? Get in touch with us today to explore partnership opportunities.