Health & Protection

Promoting Health, Wellbeing, Protection, and Inclusion

TESFA is committed to improving the physical, mental, and social wellbeing of refugees with disabilities while ensuring their safety, dignity, and equal rights. Through integrated health and protection initiatives, we work to enhance access to quality healthcare, rehabilitation services, psychosocial support, and inclusive protection mechanisms. We also promote gender equality, child protection, safeguarding, and disability inclusion to create safe and supportive communities where every individual can live with dignity and participate fully in society.

Objectives

• Improve access to quality healthcare and rehabilitation services.
  Promote
• mental health and psychosocial wellbeing.
• Strengthen gender equality, child protection, and safeguarding.
• Prevent discrimination, abuse, violence, and exploitation.
• Advocate for accessible, inclusive, and rights-based health and protection services.

Programme Leadership

Lead Department: Health, Protection & Inclusion Department

Supporting Departments:

• Programs, Projects & Community Services
• Education, Research & Advocacy
• Partnerships & Resource Mobilization
• Information, Communication & Digital Services
• MEAL

Goal

To promote accessible, inclusive, safe, and dignified health and protection services for refugees with disabilities.

Programme Areas

• Health & Rehabilitation
• Gender, Child Protection & Inclusion

Key Principles

• Dignity
• Confidentiality
• Accessibility
• Inclusion
• Do-no-harm
• Person-centred approaches
• Informed participation
• Safeguarding
• Referral and coordination

Expected Outcomes

• Improved access to health and rehabilitation services.
• Increased awareness of protection services.
• Stronger referral pathways.
• Improved disability inclusion.
• Safer and more accessible services.

Programmes

Health & Rehabilitation

Improves access to healthcare, rehabilitation services, assistive devices, mental health support, and community-based rehabilitation.

Learn more: → Health & Rehabilitation

Gender, Child Protection & Inclusion

Promotes gender equality, child protection, safeguarding, disability inclusion, and prevention of discrimination and violence.

Learn more: → Gender, Child Protection & Inclusion

Related Programmes

Continue exploring TESFA’s programmes:

→ Education & Scholarships

→ Research & Documentations

→ Advocacy & Rights Protection

→ Livelihood & Economic Empowerment

→ Humanitarian & Community Support 

→ Membership & Community Engagement

→ Capacity Building & Organizational Development 

→ Partnerships & Resource Mobilization

→ Information, Communication & Digital Inclusion 

→ Sports, Culture, Arts & Recreation

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