Giving voice to displaced women and girls through participatory research

ReGHID is a research project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council of the United Kingdom (ESRC-UK), involving research institutions in the UK, Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador and Honduras, which aims to better understand the lived experience of displaced women (aged 25-49) and adolescent girls (15-24) that migrate from Venezuela to Brazil and Colombia, from Central America to Mexico, and those that return to Central America in regards to their sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs and rights.

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Human rights-based approach to sexual and reproductive health in displacement

The core of ReGHID’s work is founded on a rights-based approach to public health, as a way to assert the indivisibility of human rights, understand levels of responsibility and accountability of state and non-state actors, and, most importantly, assess health policies in what they relate to the protection of displaced women and adolescents in Brazil, […]

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Impact and Policy engagement for durable solutions

Our research will strengthen displaced women and adolescent girls’ agency and autonomy, capacity to exercise their SRH rights and contribute to more responsive and rights-based health systems services for displaced women and girls in Central and South America.  Pathways to impact have been co-designed with NGOs, UN agencies and regional organisations, together with local experts […]

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How does ReGHID link to the Sustainable Development Goals?

ReGHID supports the commitment of the Sustainable Development Goals to ‘leave no one behind’. While the UN SDG principle of ‘leave no-one behind’ is inclusive of migrants and refugees, the realisation of universal health care for women and girls migrants requires better understanding the conditions surrounding migration and forced displacement that often fuel health inequities […]

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COVID-19 lockdown experience

ReGHID officially started in February 2020, and had its initial activities directly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. This has represented a shift in some of the fieldwork activities and methodologies and has provided the team with the opportunity to build a theoretical and policy working papers with more time and involvement of international partners. Preliminary fieldwork activities, initially scheduled for 2020 will be carried out in 2021 to include focus groups with displaced women and girls, photovoice activities and interviews with key actors in health services in Brazil, Mexico and Honduras.

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