APRRN has now become a network led by people with lived experience, and in 2024 and 2025, we made concerted efforts to ensure that diverse refugee leaders and people with lived experience would have space at policy and decision-making forums and events on issues that affect their own lives. This has included advocating for their participation, encouraging our partners, including UN agencies, to fund those participants with lived experience who are able to travel to speak at events and sit around negotiation tables. In circumstances where funding has not been available, APRRN has stepped in to ensure the participation of refugee leaders in platforms which otherwise would not have been accessible to them.
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