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GAIN Webinar Series: Translating Academic Research into Effective Responses to Forced Displacement
May 24, 2022 — May 25, 2022
Time: 8:00 AM — 10:00 AM
| Key Contact: | Global Academic Interdisciplinary Network (GAIN) |
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LERRN is pleased to announce our participation in the upcoming webinar series from the Global Academic Interdisciplinary Network (GAIN): Translating Academic Research into Effective Responses to Forced Displacement. Join us for a series of online discussions in which we will explore how academic findings and initiatives that can support decision-making processes to improve the lives of refugees, forcibly displaced persons, and host communities.
Over two sessions on 24 and 25 May, a range of diverse research partners, including Dadaab Response Association Director Okello Mark Oyat, Dignity Kwanza Director Janemary Ruhundwa, and Action Pour le Progres Director Pascal Zigashane, will showcase findings and initiatives that can support GCR stakeholders in making evidence-based decisions and policies based on reliable, independent research conducted by academics and persons with lived experience of forced displacement. Key donors and supporters will also discuss the importance of producing actionable and relevant research that is led, co-designed and co-implemented with refugees and forcibly displaced persons.
Session 1: The Transformative Potential of Inclusive and Localized Refugee and Forced Displacement Research
Session 2: Urbanization: Refugee Economies and Access to Essential Services
Simultaneous interpretation will be available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish, as well as International Sign Language.
Event times are shown on this page in Eastern Daylight Time (UTC +4).
Launched at the 2019 Global Refugee Forum, the Global Academic Interdisciplinary Network (GAIN) brings together universities, academic alliances, and research institutions, together with UNHCR and other relevant stakeholders to support the implementation of the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR).