What It Is
Female Head of Household
Global Policy Tracker
The FHH Tracker is a student-led policy tracker, examining how national laws shape the lives of displaced single mothers and female-headed households across conflict and displacement settings.
This demographic is often treated as part of a broad "vulnerable populations" category. That makes it easy for the most common barriers they face to stay hidden in plain sight.
The Global FHH Policy Tracker is a country-by-country tool that monitors how laws, policies, and public systems shape the lived reality of displaced female-headed households, also known as single mothers, including refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs).
What protections exist on paper?
What can women actually access in real life?
Where are the gaps, exclusions, and contradictions?
What reforms are realistic now?
Designed for policymakers, program teams, funders, advocates, researchers, and journalists who need a clear snapshot of what is helping, what is blocking, and where change is possible.
The Architecture
How The Tracker Works
Each country page is designed for immediate clarity, utilizing visual status chips and 24 rigorous indicators separated into Core Risks and Policy Windows.
Youth-Led Research Model
The Tracking Teams
A core feature of this project is its research model. Country analysis is supported by students and early career professionals working in their own countries, with guidance from The Refugee Archive and external mentors.
Most of our researchers join the project from affiliated universities located in developing countries. Others are recent graduates interested in developing policy and analysis research portfolios and experience.
This team demographic type strengthens local accuracy, builds accountability at home, and creates a practical training and portfolio pathway for emerging researchers.