Women Refugees Empowerment in Refugee Camps

During displacement, women are more at risk and they face a number of challenges such as exposure to gender-based violence (GBV), risk of exploitation, health risks especially for pregnant women, and psychological trauma. The call for gender equality and women’s empowerment in refugee populations is present through humanitarian action platforms and policies. The research methodology of this study is a content analysis, utilising the tool of discourse analysis of selected documents about empowerment. The study has found that there is no common understanding of how to achieve empowerment and that different approaches are used depending on the humanitarian programme’s vision; awareness is needed to clarify the confusion between the terms ‘gender equality’ and ‘women empowerment’; women empowerment is an important aspects for the achieving development and gender equality; empowerment requires awareness and acceptance both from women and men in the community in order to be achieved; intersectionality of factors is an important tool of analysis that can help provide a more accurate understanding of women’s conditions and needs in the field