{"id":11384,"date":"2025-12-08T17:25:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T22:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=11384"},"modified":"2026-04-28T10:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:40:09","slug":"building-bridges-across-regions-east-africa-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/event\/building-bridges-across-regions-east-africa-latin-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Bridges Across Regions: East Africa &#038; Latin America"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<p class=\"preFade fadeIn\">Note the time is indicated CET 04:00 &#8211; 05:30 PM CET (Geneva).<\/p>\n\n\n\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\n\n\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>&nbsp;Designed 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\n\n\n<p>Full&nbsp;R-Space @ The GRF Progress Review 2025&nbsp;program 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\n\n\n<h4 id=\"presenter\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Presenter:<\/h4>\n\n\n\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\n\n\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\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\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\n\n\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\n\n\n<p>Read the full synthesis report <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/cu_file\/synthesis-report-refugee-led-responses-and-agency-in-east-africa-the-middle-east-and-south-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"discussants\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Discussants:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\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\n\n\n<li>Abdullahi Mire, RYEH<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mar\u00eda Guevara, Latin America Lead, R-SEAT<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"moderator\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Moderator:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/people\/milner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Milner<\/a>, LERRN Project Director<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-11384","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2025-12-15T16:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2025-12-15T17:30:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":false,"cu_event_meeting_room":"","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/11384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/11384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11436,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/11384\/revisions\/11436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=11384"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=11384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}