Building Bridges Across Regions: East Africa & Latin America
December 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
| Location: | Impact Hub, Rue Fendt 1, 1201 Genève, Switzerland - Petite Salon |
| Cost: | Free |
Note the time is indicated CET 04:00 – 05:30 PM CET (Geneva).
Join us to learn from the LERRN’s 2020–2025 research across East Africa, the Middle East, and South America.
The discussion explores how meaningful participation delivers stronger policy and program outcomes, what challenges persist, and what each region can learn from the other to strengthen refugee leadership globally. This session is part of the R-Space @ The GRF Progress Review 2025. Designed as a space rooted in refugee realities, R-Space brings together diverse refugee leaders, organizations, and allies to drive conversations that are shaped, led, and owned by refugees themselves. Over three days, panels will explore solutions, innovations, and lived-experience insights across protection, localization, disability inclusion, climate, economic inclusion, gender, and more.
Full R-Space @ The GRF Progress Review 2025 program can be accessed here.
Presenter:
Stephanie López Villamil, Research Associate, LERRN
Stephanie will present a synthesis of the results of two special research projects carried out from 2020 to 2025 in East Africa (Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania), the Middle East (Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey), and South America (Chile, Colombia):
- Evaluation of Refugee-Led Organizations in East Africa and the Middle East
- The Process and Politics of Refugee Leadership: A Comparative Analysis of Factors Conditioning Refugee Leadership in the Global South
Read the full synthesis report here.
Discussants:
- Ana María Diez, President, Coalición por Venezuela
- Abdullahi Mire, RYEH
- María Guevara, Latin America Lead, R-SEAT
Moderator:
James Milner, LERRN Project Director