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Refugee-Led Organizations in East Africa: Community Perceptions in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Ethiopia
Thursday, September 29, 2022 from 9:00 am to 10:00 am
- In-person event
- Contact
- lerrn@carleton.ca
An important development in refugee and forced migration research, policy, and practice in recent years has been the increased recognition that refugee-led initiatives and organizations (RLOs) play a vital role in meeting community needs. However, there is a very limited understanding of the various forms RLOs can take, how refugee communities perceive them, and the factors that condition their work.
Join us on Thursday, 29 September 2022, as we launch the results of an innovative research project that seeks to fill this gap by examining the impact of refugee-led organizations in urban and camp/settlement sites across Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. Led by researchers with lived experiences of displacement from start to finish, and supported by a consortium of partners including the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the Open Society Foundations (OSF), and Robert Bosch Stiftung, this research provides timely and surprising insight on the factors that enable and constrain the work of RLOs.
Panelists
Abis Getachew
- Ethiopian returnee / former refugee; Lead Country Researcher in Ethiopia, RLO Evaluation
- Email Abis
Andhira Yousif Kara
- Sudanese refugee; lead country researcher in Kenya (Nakuru, Kenya)
- Email Andhira Yousif
Mary Gitahi
- Kenyan refugee; lead country researcher in Uganda (Nakivale Settlement), RSC RLO study
- Email Mary
Uwezo Ramazani
- former refugee from the Democratic Republic of the Congo; lead country researcher in Tanzania (Dar Es Salaam), RSC RLO study
- Email Uwezo
Moderator
James Milner
- Project Director, LERRN
The Refugee-Led Research Hub (RLRH) is a non-profit initiative of the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) at the University of Oxford. The RLRH is located in Nairobi at the British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA). We create opportunities for researchers with a displacement background to lead primary and secondary research studies in the field of forced migration, from start to finish. Our main thematic interests in Refugee Studies are livelihoods and self-reliance; and leadership and participation of displaced populations in humanitarian response and policy-making. RLRH also offers a series of academic programmes which support graduate access and professional development for students with lived experience of displacement.
LERRN is a team of researchers and practitioners committed to promoting protection and solutions with and for refugees. The goal is to ensure that refugee research, policy and practice are shaped by a more inclusive, equitable and informed collective engagement of civil society.