• Open to the public, please register to attend  
• 🕖 Time: 14:00-16:00
• 🌍 Venue: Centre International de Conférences Genève (CICG)

This session will explore how we can more effectively work to advance refugee leadership and participation in humanitarian and development responses as a part of a 'whole-of-society' approach. Research indicates that while refugees and other displaced communities possess unique knowledge, skills, and perspectives that can significantly contribute to effective solutions in international development, their expertise and experiences are often overlooked or marginalized within the top-down governance models that exist.  The session will consider and help to address the inequitable nature of knowledge production, funding, and power dynamics more broadly within the humanitarian system.  The session will showcase pioneering research and new guidelines that were developed through extensive consultation, are co-owned, and are now widely endorsed.