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Creating safety and belonging: Lessons from women and child friendly spaces in four country offices

Islamic Relief has integrated women and child friendly spaces into its humanitarian and development programming across different countries. These spaces serve as safe environments where women and children can access psychosocial support, learn new skills, and rebuild confidence after crisis. This paper aims to facilitate further understanding on how such spaces can effectively respond to protection, psychosocial, and inclusion needs in both humanitarian and early recovery settings.

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Locally Led Adaptation to climate breakdown

This paper reviews the prospects for Locally Led Adaptation (LLA) to climate breakdown. Alongside a review of the LLA principles, national instruments, institutions, finance, ‘cross-cutting factors’ of equity, inclusion and climate justice, it explores the potential of faith and faith-based actors towards realising just and effective climate action for the world’s most vulnerable populations. It concludes with an examination of the risks and barriers, and ways they may be overcome.

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Islamic Relief 2025 Climate Policy: Summary

Islamic Relief is committed to responding to the threats facing our world due to the breakdown of climate systems. Islamic Relief’s 2025 Climate Policy sets out the policy positions, summarised below, needed to realise our work towards empowering the most disadvantaged families and communities to overcome poverty and vulnerability.

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Put it out: Islamic Relief’s Climate Policy 2025

This Climate Policy sets out again Islamic Relief’s long-held positions regarding the climate emergency, reiterating core positions set out in previous publications, and setting out the systemic and structural global changes needed to mitigate the climate emergency, and to realise Islamic Relief’s Global Strategy to address the worst consequences.

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Takaaya: How community kitchens offer a local lifeline to Sudan’s hunger crisis

Sudan is currently facing one of the most devastating humanitarian crises in recent history. The conflict, which erupted in April 2023, has triggered the world’s largest displacement crisis, with over 12 million people uprooted from their homes, and has plunged more than half of the population into acute food insecurity. Famine has been declared in multiple regions, including El Fasher in North Darfur, where communities remain under siege, cut off from humanitarian aid and basic necessities.

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Islamic Relief Bangladesh Annual Report 2024

In 2024, Islamic Relief Bangladesh delivered transformative interventions to more than 1.4 million people across 35 districts. Our work included providing lifesaving humanitarian assistance to Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals (FDMNs) who lack access to many basic necessities, and responding to climate disasters that so often afflict Bangladesh. Learn more about our programmes and the impact of your support in this report.

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Orphan Sponsorship in Gaza

This report forms part of a campaign to secure sponsors for the more than 7,000 children on Islamic Relief’s orphan sponsorship waitlist. It details the ways donors can support orphaned children suffering incredible hardship under Israeli bombardment in Gaza.

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