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Evaluation of Refugee-Led Organisations in East Africa and the Middle East

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LERRN, the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) at the University of Oxford, and the Centre for Lebanese Studies (CLS), are working together on a study funded by a consortium of donors including the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the Open Society Foundations (OSF), Robert Bosch Stiftung and others. This innovative, fully participatory research is led by researchers with lived experience of forced displacement and aims to understand the factors that influence the impact of refugee-led organisations (RLOs) as service-delivery providers in humanitarian settings in East Africa and the Middle East.

East Africa Team
Middle East Team

Publications

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 …

Webinars

29 Sep 2022 – Refugee-led Organizations in East Africa: Community Perceptions in Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, and Tanzania

16 Jan 2023 – Refugee Communities Mobilising in the Middle East: Refugee-led Organisations in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey