Program · Empowerment & Leadership

Interagency Collaboration Forum

Building strategic and equitable partnerships and collaboration among refugees and wider stakeholders.

Equitable partnership, by design

A shared table for refugee-led and non-refugee stakeholders

Non-refugee stakeholders increasingly want stronger understanding and skills to engage refugees in meaningful ways — but progress varies widely, and few spaces exist for sustained, structured collaboration.

The Interagency Collaboration Forum brings refugee-led organisations and non-refugee stakeholders — donors, NGOs, agencies — together on equal footing to build long-term, equitable partnerships and take collaborative action.

A multi-stakeholder panel session at the Global Refugee Forum

What the forum builds

From goodwill to structured collaboration

Good intentions alone don't build equitable partnerships — the Forum gives stakeholders a repeatable structure to work from.

Shared table, equal footing

Refugee-led organisations and non-refugee stakeholders convene as partners setting an agenda together — not as grant recipients being briefed.

Skills stakeholders actually need

Practical grounding in meaningful refugee participation for donors, NGOs and agencies who want to engage refugees well but don't yet know how.

Partnerships built to last

Structured, sustained engagement rather than one-off consultation — designed to hold up beyond a single grant cycle or event.

Collaborative action, not just dialogue

Forum sessions are designed to end in commitments — joint initiatives, referrals, or funding conversations — not just discussion.

How it connects

Part of a wider empowerment pillar

The Forum works alongside APNOR's Meaningful Refugee Participation Training & Index — the Index gives a stakeholder its baseline, the Forum gives it the room to act on it.

MRP Training & Index Empowerment & Leadership pillar

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If your organisation wants to build an equitable, long-term partnership with refugee-led initiatives, we'd like to hear from you.

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