National Refugee-led Advisory and Advocacy Group (NRAAG)

The National Refugee-led Advisory and Advocacy Group (NRAAG) is an Australian refugee-led entity with the purpose of creating spaces and platforms for voices of former refugees, people seeking asylum, and people from refugee-like backgrounds to be included in decisions, policies, public and media discourse about them. NRAAG's aim is to ensure that the people whose lives are impacted by decisions made and actions taken are also playing an essential part in the decisionmaking process. NRAAG envisions to do this by informing key policies, service delivery, campaigns, research, and initiatives affecting the lives of its constituents with a range of partners and allies. The guiding principle deeply entrenched in all of NRAAG’s work is the belief that given the opportunity and the right resources, those with first-hand experience of an issue, the impacted communities, are best placed to devise the most effective and efficient solutions to their own challenges. With this strengths-based approach and the expertise of lived experience, we aim to join forces with key players in the refugee rights movement to find solutions that will positively enhance the lives of refugees and people seeking asylum in Australia.