Program · Grassroots Engagement & Capacity Sharing

Local Hubs & Consultations

National-level networks of refugees and refugee-led organisations that shape community priorities and connect local voices to APNOR's regional work.

How local hubs work

Where regional strategy meets local reality

Local Hubs bring together refugees and refugee-led organisations in a given country or region to discuss APNOR's work, share community priorities, and coordinate joint action. They are the grassroots foundation that everything else — funding decisions, advocacy priorities, training design — is built on.

APNOR currently connects with local hubs across South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia and the Pacific — see them all on our interactive network map.

Explore the network map

Refugee leaders in hands-on training at a local hub

What a hub does

Four functions, one local network

A local hub isn't a branch office — it's a self-organising network of refugees and RLOs in one country or sub-region, connected into APNOR's structures rather than run by them.

National consultations

Regular gatherings that surface what refugees and RLOs in that country actually need — feeding directly into APNOR's regional Agenda for Change.

Steering Committee representation

Each hub connects to a member of APNOR's regional Steering Committee, who carries local priorities into strategic decision-making.

Local delivery point

Hubs are where regional programs land locally — Skills Enhancement participants, RLA Activators and APSOR delegates are usually nominated through a hub.

Peer-to-peer support

RLOs within a hub share knowledge, referrals and — where possible — resources with each other, without waiting on the regional secretariat.

Don't see your country?

Starting a new hub

APNOR doesn't parachute hubs into a country from the top down — a hub starts when refugee leaders already active in that country come together and ask to connect.

1 · Reach out

Get in touch through our contact form — tell us who's already organising in your country and what you're hoping to build.

2 · Convene locally

We help connect you with existing RLOs and refugee leaders nearby, and support your first local consultation.

3 · Join the network

Once established, your hub gets a Steering Committee link, a place on the network map, and access to APNOR's full range of programs.