{"id":11384,"date":"2025-12-08T17:25:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T22:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/?post_type=cu-events&#038;p=11384"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:30:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:30:29","slug":"building-bridges-across-regions-east-africa-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"cu-events","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/cu-events\/building-bridges-across-regions-east-africa-latin-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Bridges Across Regions: East Africa &#038; Latin America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"preFade fadeIn\">Note the time is indicated CET 04:00 &#8211; 05:30 PM CET (Geneva).<\/p>\n<p class=\"preFade fadeIn\"><strong>Join us to learn from the LERRN\u2019s 2020\u20132025 research across East Africa, the Middle East, and South America.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"preFade fadeIn\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.refugee-space.org\/events-2-1\/event-one-bkyc4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.refugee-space.org\/events-2-1\/event-one-bkyc4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">R-Space @ The GRF Progress Review 2025.<\/a>\u00a0Designed as a space <em>rooted in refugee realities<\/em>, 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.<\/p>\n<p>Full\u00a0R-Space @ The GRF Progress Review 2025\u00a0program can be accessed <a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/6912090b55c6993602d71c51\/t\/693729df2ad8651abb0f91b6\/1765222879747\/R-Space+%40GRF+Progress+Review+2025+Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Presenter:<\/h4>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/people\/stephanie-lopez-villamil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stephanie L\u00f3pez Villamil<\/a>, Research Associate, LERRN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle2\">Stephanie will present a s<\/span>ynthesis 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):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/special-projects\/lerrn-rsc-cls-evaluation-of-rlos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Evaluation of Refugee-Led Organizations in East Africa and the Middle East<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/refugee-leadership-in-south-america-and-east-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Process and Politics of Refugee Leadership: A Comparative Analysis of Factors Conditioning Refugee Leadership in the Global South<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the full synthesis report <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/cu-files\/synthesis-report-refugee-led-responses-and-agency-in-east-africa-the-middle-east-and-south-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Discussants:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"fontstyle0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/people\/ana-maria-diez\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ana Mar\u00eda Diez<\/a>, President, Coalici\u00f3n por Venezuela<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Abdullahi Mire, RYEH<\/li>\n<li>Mar\u00eda Guevara, Latin America Lead, R-SEAT<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Moderator:<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/people\/milner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Milner<\/a>, LERRN Project Director<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"daevent-type":[],"event-audience":[],"event-featured":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Building Bridges Across Regions: East Africa &amp; Latin America - Events - LERRN: The Local Engagement Refugee Research Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Note the time is indicated CET 04:00 - 05:30 PM CET (Geneva). 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