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Thursday, May 21, 2020
Merve Erdilmen, McGill University Witness Ayesiga Sosthenes, University of Dar es Salaam The idea of strengthening local humanitarian actors’ capacities, and access to funding and information, as well as making local non-governmental organizations essential partners in strategic decision-making processes, has been around globally since the early... More
Monday, April 6, 2020
By Faith Mario Mjalilla This year’s World Health Day comes at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic is sweeping the globe and putting millions of lives at risk. It’s important to highlight that refugees are more vulnerable to infection due to their precarious living conditions in camps. As the world continues its attempt to... More
Monday, March 16, 2020
In the summer of 2019, Leonard Chimanda, a Masters candidate of Laws in Migration and Refugee Law at the University of Dar es Salaam and Stéfanie Morris, a researcher at the University of Ottawa were tasked to evaluate whether there are gaps in Tanzania's current national legal and regulatory framework. Discrepancies between international law... More
Thursday, February 20, 2020
In commemoration of the World Day of Social Justice, LERRN is proud to share the stories of our partners committed to the social justice for all. For DIGNITY Kwanza, our lead partner in Tanzania, the pursuit of social justice for every individual, even the most marginalized and vulnerable is at the heart of their... More
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
MERVE ERDILMEN PhD Student, Department of Political Science, McGill University Read here: Durable Solutions and the Humanitarian-Development Nexus Executive summary: This paper provides a brief review of the literature on the link between humanitarian and development approaches to durable solutions for refugees. By shedding light on the meaning,... More
Friday, October 4, 2019
On 2 October 2019, Khoti Kamanga, co-founder of the Centre for the Study of Forced Migration at the University of Dar es Salaam, and Co-Applicant for LERRN, published an op-ed in The Citizen, one of Tanzania’s leading English-language newspapers, reflecting on the 50th anniversary of the 1969 OAU Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of... More
Monday, August 19, 2019
By Stéfanie Morris & Leonard Chimanda In the spirit of collaboration which is so central to LERRN, we’re writing this post together. We do this not only to highlight our research in Tanzania but also to discuss why local-international research partnerships are the bedrock of this undertaking. In what follows, we alternate between separate... More
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