Stay with Dignity. Move with Safety. Choose with Freedom.

A Call to Reduce Forced Emigration — While Protecting Freedom of Choice

The Urgency: Forced Migration Is Costing Lives

Every year, thousands of the most vulnerable people are pushed to flee, chasing safety or the possibility of a better future. Many undertake dangerous journeys where they face extortion, trafficking, exploitation, abuse, and even death. Those who reach distant countries often arrive only to confront discrimination, unsafe labor conditions, legal vulnerability, and continued violence.

This is not a journey driven by hope. It is a journey driven by necessity.

Why People Leave: Pressures That Strip Away Choice

For too many, the decision to migrate is shaped not by aspiration, but by:

  • Economic insecurity and lack of opportunities

  • Protection risks and rising insecurity

  • Weak public services and limited access to rights

  • Social fragmentation and lack of community stability

These pressures create conditions where emigration becomes the only perceived path to safety, dignity, or survival — especially for youth, women, and vulnerable groups.

Mission: Ensuring No One Is Forced to Flee

WRO works at the heart of these challenges. Through integrated humanitarian services, protection programs, livelihoods support, peacebuilding, and long-term development initiatives, WRO addresses the structural drivers that push people to leave their homes.

Our commitment is clear:
To create an environment where individuals have the opportunity, security, and dignity to build safe, empowered, and meaningful lives at home — free from exploitation, abuse, and violent extremism — so that migration becomes a choice, not a survival strategy.

  1. The Right to Stay

Creating Real, Dignified Options for Remaining

People should be able to remain in their homeland safely, securely, and with meaningful livelihoods.
When these conditions fail, forced emigration becomes more likely.
WRO’s interventions directly address the drivers that undermine people’s ability to stay.

1.1 Economic Opportunities That Reduce Migration Pressures

Addressing Lack of Economic Opportunities — A Primary Push Factor

WRO combats this through a comprehensive and market-driven livelihoods portfolio, including:

  • Skills development in public, private, non-profit sectors

  • Vocational training aligned with local labor market needs

  • Entrepreneurship training and business mentorship

  • SME start-up and expansion support

  • Cash-for-work programs and emergency income initiatives

  • Green skills and climate-adaptive livelihoods

  • Livelihoods market assessments to inform evidence-based programming

Measured Impact:

  • 85% of participants report improved livelihoods and increased economic independence.

  • 91% of youth, women, and marginalized groups gained new employment pathways and skills that anchor them in local economies.

Support livelihood programs to reduce migration driven by economic desperation.

1.2 Safety & Protection: Reducing the Risks That Force People to Leave

Protection Risks + Insecurity + Lack of Economic Opportunities = Forced Migration

In many areas, insecurity and economic deprivation reinforce one another.
People leave not only to escape violence or fear, but to escape the compound vulnerability created by unsafe environments, weak services, and limited livelihoods.

WRO addresses these intersecting risks through:

  • VAWG prevention and response programs

  • Child protection and education initiatives

  • Legal aid, civil documentation support, and access to justice

  • Mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) — individual, group, community, and family-based

  • Health services, including specialized services for women

  • WASH, shelter, and emergency relief

  • Integrated protection case management

  • Safe spaces — Women & Girls Safe Spaces, Child-Friendly Spaces, Youth Spaces, and community centers

Measured Impact:

  • 94% of legal aid beneficiaries achieved dignified, positive case outcomes.

  • 96% gained stability and improved wellbeing through MHPSS support.

  • 95% of children demonstrate improved safety, learning conditions, and protection outcomes.

Help us strengthen protection systems that keep families safe at home.

1.3 Social Cohesion & Reintegration: Strengthening the Communities People Stay For

Belonging, Acceptance, and Reintegration Reduce Onward Movement

WRO strengthens the social fabric through:

  • Peacebuilding and community dialogue

  • Conflict resolution and mediation

  • Social cohesion activities across diverse identity groups

  • Civic education, leadership development, and community engagement

  • Reintegration support for returnees and formerly displaced individuals

  • Family tracing, reunification, and community acceptance mechanisms

  • Community healing and resilience-building

Measured Impact:

  • 97% of returnees supported by WRO report restored belonging, safety, and reintegration success.

Support community stabilization as a cornerstone of reducing forced migration.

  1. The Right to Move

Protecting Human Mobility, Safety, and Voluntary Migration

Migration is a universal human experience.
WRO’s work is grounded in the understanding that movement itself is not the problem —
the problem is when people are forced to move by insecurity, poverty, discrimination, or exclusion.

International human rights–based approach upholds:

  • The right to seek opportunities abroad

  • The right to move safely and legally, without risking one’s life

  • The right to return home and rebuild family and community life

  • The right to remain connected across borders

  • The right to make informed, voluntary decisions about mobility

Our goal is not to stop migration. It is to stop migration driven by desperation.

Partner with us to promote safe, dignified migration pathways.

  1. How WRO Reduces Forced Migration

An Integrated Model That Addresses Every Push Factor

WRO’s integrated holistic system-strengthening model reduces the drivers of forced emigration across the following pillars:

✔ Protection

Decreases fear-driven migration by ensuring safety, rights, and access to justice.

✔ Livelihoods & Economic Empowerment

Reduces economically driven migration by creating income stability and opportunity.

✔ MHPSS & Health Services

Reduces trauma-driven migration and improves emotional resilience.

✔ Peacebuilding & Social Cohesion

Reduces conflict-driven movement and secondary displacement.

✔ Youth & Women’s Leadership

Reduces future uncertainty by fostering agency, skills, and participation.

✔ Government, Civil Society, Community Partnerships

Reduces community dividers and barriers to social and economic support services.

These interventions work together to make staying possible, dignified, and sustainable.

  1. Expanding Choice: The Heart of Human Dignity

WRO’s work transforms the migration landscape by expanding—and protecting—people’s freedom to choose.

With strengthened livelihoods, safety, services, and belonging at home, people can:

  • Stay and build a business

  • Stay and work in safer, more stable environments

  • Leave for education or work abroad through legal pathways

  • Return home after migration, reintegrate, and utilize new resources locally

  • Build cross-border livelihoods or family networks

Freedom lies not in where people go, but in their ability to choose.

  1. What Our Impact at Home Shows

Lives Rebuilt. Futures Secured. Communities Strengthened.

  • 90% report improved wellbeing

  • 93% build skills and confidence to lead change

  • 85% strengthened livelihoods

  • 96% of women and girls found healing and stability

  • 97% of returnees reintegrated successfully

Your support helps scale these life-changing outcomes.

  1. Join Us in Expanding Human Freedom

Through its integrated programming model, WRO addresses the full spectrum of factors that drive forced emigration:

  • Economic precarity

  • Insecurity and lack of services

  • Trauma and mental distress

  • Violence against women and girls

  • Social fragmentation

  • Limited youth opportunity

  • Community instability

  • Male vulnerability to violent extremism

These outcomes represent lives rebuilt, futures reclaimed, and communities strengthened.

Our commitment remains clear:

No one should be forced to flee.
Everyone should be free to choose.

Partner with WRO to build a future where staying is safe, moving is dignified, and every path is chosen freely.