Peru is home to over 1 million refugees and migrants from Venezuela, representing nearly 20% of Venezuelans who have left their country since 2018. In Peru, many Venezuelans have irregular migratory status due to restrictive procedures.
This results in limited access to essential health and education services and restricts entry into the formal labor market. In this context, many Venezuelan women, adolescents, and children also become vulnerable to trafficking, exploitation, and abuse.
people reached directly through services in 2023
HIAS provides refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants with services in Lima, Tumbes, La Libertad, Puno, and Tacna. Our team also has mobile response units at the northern border, in Piura and Chiclayo. Our strategy promotes the integration of displaced people into host communities, while guaranteeing security and freedom. We provide community-based and individualized care, identify and assess specific needs, and build an action plan with each person to ensure their protection and economic inclusion. Our mobile teams use a “pop-up” approach to identify urgent and complex cases. This allows us to provide immediate support for gender-based violence (GBV) survivors, those with severe health issues, unaccompanied children, families on the streets, and LGBTQ+ refugees. Food security, education, child protection, and temporary shelter programs are integrated into this comprehensive strategy for highly at-risk individuals.
Our economic inclusion programs ensure that refugees have economic opportunities to earn sustainable income and start their lives anew.
Promote Economic Inclusion
We help women and girls access their full potential and live free from violence by supporting survivors, mitigating risks, and engaging communities in change.
End Gender-Based Violence
We provide legal services and support, including free legal representation for asylum seekers so that everyone around the world, including displaced people, can have equal access to their legal rights.
Provide Legal Support
Our economic inclusion programs ensure that refugees have economic opportunities to earn sustainable income and start their lives anew.
Promote Economic Inclusion
Latin America and the Caribbean has some of the highest rates of gender-based violence in the world. This innovative program is working with men to help them understand how traditional forms of masculinity perpetuate violence against women and girls, and what they can do to change this.
In Peru, HIAS partnered with Columbia University and UNHCR to carry out a study of how to adapt a psychological intervention to a COVID-19-affected setting, where remote delivery was necessary. The study also tested a shortened approach that was designed to better fit the needs of mobile populations. This work can help humanitarian organizations to better adapt care to settings marked by crisis and disruption and to better evaluate their efforts to do so.
Read MoreThis report explores the lessons learned during the implementation of the 'Positive Masculinities' curriculum module run by HIAS in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. This curriculum module was part of the violence against women and girls prevention program in the Andean region.
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