Amplify

We elevate refugee leadership, expertise, evidence, and solutions through research, advocacy, communications, and global policy engagement to strengthen refugee responses.

What We Amplify

Elevatingthe work, achievements, and innovations of refugee leaders
Evidenceresearch, publications, tools, and practical resources that strengthen understandings of meaningful participation
Trainingfor more influence in policy and global decision-making

Refugee-led organizations are often first to respond and last to leave — bringing lived experience, professional expertise and community trust. Amplify puts refugee leadership where it belongs: at the core of designing and delivering responses.

The funding argument

First to respond. Last to be funded.

Refugee-led organizations are closest to the people they serve and furthest from the money. These are the published figures — follow them left to right.

2022$46.9B

total international humanitarian assistance

2022$26.4M

of it reached refugee-led organizations

2022Almost half

of that came from one private philanthropy

20230.7%

of humanitarian aid went to refugee-led initiatives

A thousand dots. Each one is $46.9 million.

2022 · 1,000 dots = $46.9B
56%Everything refugee-led organizations received, all year:$26.4Mdoes not fill one dot.$1 in every $1,777 of humanitarian funding.THE WHOLE YEAR AS ONE DAY → 49 SECONDSONE DOT$46.9MENLARGED 14×

The 2022 and 2023 figures count different things — organizations in one year, initiatives in the other. They are two separate measurements of the same shortfall, not a change over time.

Figures as published by R-SEAT · 2022 & 2023 reporting years