R-Space is returning to Geneva on the side of the GRF Progress Review 2025 with an expanded and powerful program featuring 27 refugee-led panels. Designed as a space rooted in refugee realities, R-Space brings together diverse refugee leaders, organizations, and allies to drive conversations that are shaped, led, and owned by refugees themselves.

Over three days, panels will explore solutions, innovations, and lived-experience insights across protection, localization, disability inclusion, climate, economic inclusion, gender, and more. R-Space continues to model what meaningful participation looks like when refugees set the agenda creating a safe, collaborative, and proud space where refugee expertise leads policy discussions and collective action.

Some sessions require registration.

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Day 01 | 15 December 2025

9:00 am – 6:00 pm

GRF Review Rapid Support Sessions, Organizational Brainstorm Sessions, Legal Health Check-Ins

Aropa Consulting; Refugee Emergency Fund; PILnet; APNOR More details & Registration

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9:00 am – 9:30 am

Opening and Welcome Remarks

Grand Salon

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10:00 am – 11:30 am

Parallel Panels

• Reimagining Refugee Leadership: Social Cohesion, Peer Learning, and Self-Reliance in a Changing Humanitarian Landscape

  International Council for Refugees & Immigrants; Refugee Self-Reliance Initiative; PACUHR

  Grand Salon

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• Beyond Present Rhetoric and Exceptionalism: Centering Refugee Leadership in a Transformational Humanitarianism

  Refugee Youth Education Hub

  Petite Salon

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11:30 am – 12:00 pm        Room Transition

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12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Parallel Panels

• Beyond the Funding Crisis: RLOs Leading Systemic Change

  Coalición por Venezuela; Fundación Refugiados Unidos; ODI Global; Basmeh & Zeitooneh

  Grand Salon

• Refugees At Work: New Tools to Fight Workplace Injustice

  Refugees at Work

  Petite Salon

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1:30 pm – 2:00 pm            Room Transition

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2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Parallel Panels

• Advancing Inclusion and Participation of Refugees with Disabilities in the GRF Pledges: Stocktaking Progress & Mapping the Future

  Global Network of Refugees with Disabilities; International Refugee Assistance Project

  Grand Salon

• Localisation in Action: Bridging National and Refugee-Led Leadership

  Oxfam; Afro Roads Consultancy; Bondeko Refugee Livelihoods Center; ICVA; Refugees International; Voices of Ezidis; Coalición por Venezuela

  Petite Salon

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3:30 pm – 4:00 pm                 Room Transition

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4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Parallel Panels

• Refugee-Led Economic Models: From Entrepreneurship to Cooperative Futures

  Robo Co-op; Lighthouse Legal Media; Qurus; Free Ukraine Global; SINGA; UkraineNow.ch; Hechoxrefugiados

  Grand Salon

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• Building Bridges Across Regions: East Africa & Latin America

  LERRN; R-SEAT; RYEH; Coalición por Venezuela

  Petite Salon

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5:30 pm – 6:00 pm             Room Transition

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6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Parallel Panels

• From Insights to Action – The Road to GRF 2027

  Equal Asia Foundation; Afghan LGBT Organisation; Forcibly Displaced People Network

  Petite Salon

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7:30 pm – 9:00 pm               Reception

Grand Salon & Café

Day 02 | 16 December 2025

9:00 am – 6:00 pm

GRF Review Rapid Support Sessions, Organizational Brainstorm Sessions, Legal Health Check-Ins

Aropa Consulting; Refugee Emergency Fund; PILnet; APNOR More details & Registration

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9:00 am – 10:30 am

Parallel Panels

• From Pledges to Practice: Refugee-Led Pooled Funds that Deliver

  Resourcing Refugee Leadership Initiative(RRLI); Asylum Access

  Grand Salon

• Advancing Meaningful Refugee Participation in Scholarship & Education Assistance at All Levels

  Ethiopian Multinational Community in Japan; Unifamily; Connection Ubuntu; Meca Ministry; RLO partners

  Petite Salon

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10:30 am – 11:00 am                  Room Transition

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11:00 am – 12:30 pm

Parallel Panels

• Redes que Transforman: Participación Significativa, Cooperación Regional y Liderazgos LGBTIQ+ en América Latina y el Caribe

  GARLOS; IRCA CASABIERTA; Regional LGBTIQ+ Networks

  Grand Salon

• Beyond Borders, Building Power Together: Stateless & Refugee Movements in Solidarity

  Global Movement Against Statelessness; Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion

  Petite Salon

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12:30 pm – 1:00 pm                        Room Transition

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1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

Parallel Panels

• MENA Voices in Action: Reimagining Refugee-Led Responses to Forced Migration

  11.11.11; Independent Diplomat; Olive Branch; IGAM; Door Beyond War; Basmeh & Zeitooneh; SMK; STL; ARDD; Al Watan Syria; AHCSA

  Grand Salon

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• Refugee Leadership in Action: Financing, Evidence & Systemic Change for Meaningful Participation

  Asia Pacific Network of Refugees (APNOR)

  Petite Salon

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2:30 pm – 3:00 pm                       Room Transition

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3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Parallel Panels

• Meaningful Refugee Participation Under Pressure: Models, Accountability & Redefining Impact

  RAB Germany; U.S. Refugee Advisory Board;RAN Canada, NZRAP and Australia RAP

  Grand Salon

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• Advancing Meaningful Participation Through RLO-Led Equitable Partnerships

  YARID; Refugiados Unidos; APNOR; Asylum Access

  Petite Salon

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4:30 pm – 5:00 pm                     Room Transition

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5:00 pm – 6:15 pm

Parallel Panels

• Centroamérica en el Centro

  Fundación Arias; Fundación Sin Límites; Alianza Vencer Costa Rica

  Grand Salon

   

• The Resettlement Campus Movement: How Higher Education Can Transform Refugee Resettlement

  Every Campus A Refuge (ECAR)

  Petite Salon

Day 03 | 17 December 2025

9:00 am – 6:00 pm

GRF Review Rapid Support Sessions, Organizational Brainstorm Sessions, Legal Health Check-Ins

Aropa Consulting; Refugee Emergency Fund; PILnet; APNOR More details & Registration

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9:00 am – 10:30 am

Parallel Panels

• Voices Forward: Refugee-Led Movements for Shifting Power, Learning & Change

  TRSN; UNHCR; RLRH; GRYN; DRC

  Grand Salon

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• Countering Hate Speech Against the Rohingya: A Refugee Women–Led Response

  Rohingya Maìyafuìnor Collaborative Network

  Petite Salon

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10:30 am – 11:00 am                      Room Transition

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11:00 am – 12:30 pm

Parallel Panels

• Beyond Participation: Institutionalizing Refugee Leadership for Sustainable Solutions

  RefugePoint; IRAP; FRUN; RELON-Kenya; Refugee Self-Reliance Initiative; Youth Voices Community

  Grand Salon

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• Displaced Voices in Decision-Making: Building Inclusive & Resilient Communities

  CO Stabilization Support Services; E-Mentor

  Petite Salon

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12:30 pm – 1:00 pm                       Room Transition

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1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

Parallel Panels

• The Power Within: Displaced Youth & Women Redefining Self-Reliance, Dignity & Policy Change

  Empower HER; AYAN; Similar Ground; REWON; Youth Voice Community; Solidarity Initiative for Refugees

  Grand Salon

• Implementing the Route-Based Approach: From Political Commitments to Protection Outcomes

  R-SEAT

  Petite Salon

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2:30 pm – 3:00 pm                     Room Transition

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3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Parallel Panels

• From Survival to Leadership: Centering Black, Racialised & LGBTQI+ Refugee Voices

  Cohere; Hope for Refugees International; Girl Power Action Initiative; MIF UK; MCC Toronto; Rainbow Railroad

  Grand Salon

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• Refugee-Led Action in Southeast Asia: Resilience & Impact

  YCWS; Same Skies; Hope Learning Centre; Refugee Talent Program; Animation Project for Humanity; Emplace Initiative; HELP for Refugees; Jakarta Bersatu Project

  Petite Salon

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4:45 pm – 6:00 pm                Closing Event