Archives: RLO Evaluation

Friday, June 14, 2024

When displaced persons lead research: experience from East Africa

Refugee researchers are typically included in research projects as assistants and data collectors rather than core or lead researchers. This can lead to exploitation and power imbalances between insider and outsider researchers in individual research projects and in the field of forced migration research. We use the term ‘insider researcher’... More

Monday, July 17, 2023

From anecdote to evidence: researching RLOs in East Africa and the Middle East

While we knew that refugee-led organisations were important actors in the refugee response ecosystem, their roles and scope of activity were poorly understood. How could we move from anecdote to evidence, to better understand the nature and scope of refugee-led responses to the needs of refugees? In response to this question, the Local Engagement... More

Tuesday, July 11, 2023

New Article: Refugee Mobilisation to Support Refugee Rights in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey

We are pleased to announce that the Lead Researchers of the RLO Evaluation: Middle East Project have published an article titled "Refugee mobilisation to support refugee rights in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey" in the June 2023 Special Issue of Forced Migration Review: Mobilising for rights in the MENA region. The article explores the research... More

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

JMHS Special Issue on Protracted Displacement

Patterns of Refugees’ Organization Amid Protracted Displacement: An Understanding From Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey Oroub El-Abed, Watfa Najdi, and Mustafa Hoshmand from the Centre for Lebanese Studies just published a new article on the patterns of refugee organizations in Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey in The Journal on Migration and Human... More

Monday, April 10, 2023

Final Report – Refugee Communities Mobilising in the Middle East: Refugee-led Organisations in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey

This report presents the final results from the Middle East portion of the project “Evaluation of Refugee-led Organisations in East Africa and the Middle... More

Monday, April 3, 2023

ملخص تنفيذي – تقييم المنظمات التي يقودها اللاجئون في الأردن ولبنان وتركيا

(Arabic) This Executive Summary presents key findings from the Middle East portion of the project "Evaluation of Refugee-led Organisations in East Africa and the Middle... More

Monday, January 30, 2023

Report Launch: Refugee Communities Mobilising in the Middle East

Available in عربي Français Español Event details and recordings available here. On January 16, the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN), in collaboration with the Centre for Lebanese Studies (CLS), hosted a webinar to launch the Middle East results from the project Evaluation of Refugee-Led Organizations in East Africa and the... More

Monday, January 16, 2023

Executive Summary – Refugee Communities Mobilising in the Middle East: Refugee-led Organisations in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey

This Executive Summary presents key findings from the Middle East portion of the project "Evaluation of Refugee-led Organisations in East Africa and the Middle... More

Thursday, October 20, 2022

Report Launch: Refugee-led Organizations in East Africa

Available in عربي Français Español Event details and recordings available here. On September 29, the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN) hosted a webinar to launch the report on Refugee-led Organizations (RLOs) in East Africa supported by LERRN and the Refugee-Led Research Hub (RLRH). The report and Executive Summary are... More

Tuesday, August 9, 2022

New video published by CLS on empowering RLOs

LERRN's Partner Organization, the Centre for Lebanese Studies (CLS), has published a new video entitled "Refugee-led organizations are locked in a vicious cycle. How can we break it?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xavSjeGaCCA According to CLS, "we need to help Refugee-led organizations by advocating for better and clearer domestic laws and... More

Saturday, June 25, 2022

LERRN Partners Present at REF Conference 2022

LERRN partners Linda Oucho, Mark Oyat, Pascal Zigashane, Dulo Nyaoro and Kiya Gezahegne, along with LERRN Research Officer Heather Alexander, presented on refugee led organizations and localized knowledge ecosystems at the Research and Evidence Facility Second International Conference on Migrants and Forcibly Displaced Persons: Towards Greater... More

Tuesday, May 31, 2022

East Africa RLO Evaluation: Kampala Analysis & Writing Retreat

The four lead researchers of the RLO study in East Africa - Abis Getachew (Ethiopia), Andhira Kara (Kenya), Uwezo Ramazani (Tanzania) and Mary Gitahi (Uganda) -  and the Refugee-Led Research Hub's facilitator gathered in-person for the first time in Kampala for a 5-day analysis and writing retreat. During the week, the team will develop... More

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