{"id":1956,"date":"2020-06-20T08:01:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T12:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/?p=1956"},"modified":"2026-04-28T10:41:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:41:03","slug":"lerrn-announces-plans-for-refugee-advisory-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/2020\/lerrn-announces-plans-for-refugee-advisory-network\/","title":{"rendered":"LERRN Announces Plans for Refugee Advisory Network"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n LERRN Announces Plans for Refugee Advisory Network\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

June 20, 2020<\/strong>\u2014Ottawa \u2013 <\/strong>On World Refugee Day 2020, the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN)<\/a> is excited to announce plans to launch a Refugee Advisory Network<\/a> to enhance the role of civil society\u2014and refugees themselves\u2014in the global refugee system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plans for a Refugee Advisory Network follow the results of a September 2019 policy dialogue<\/a> co-hosted by LERRN and the Refugee Hub<\/a> and involving a number of refugee leaders and civil society partners. It builds on the pivotal experience of LERRN Advisor Mustafa Alio<\/a>, who was named as the first ever official Refugee Advisor to the Delegation of Canada<\/a>, headed by the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Marco Mendicino, to the inaugural Global Refugee Forum in Geneva in December 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The launch of the Refugee Advisory Network, which has been endorsed by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, represents an important step forward in ensuring that refugees can engage in a direct and meaningful way in global policy discussions. LERRN believes that policy partners stand to benefit from the expertise offered by former refugees, whose ideas for solutions are rooted in their experience of the realities of forced displacement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Refugee Advisory Network will be comprised of a group of refugee leaders in Canada who are actively engaged in diverse aspects of global refugee policy discussions and connected to global refugee networks. Members of the Network will be selected through an open and competitive process supported by a Selection Committee that includes representatives from civil society, academia and prominent former refugees. During their two-year term, Members will benefit from mentorship and capacity-building opportunities to enhance their ability to constructively engage with the global refugee policy process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Network will be a resource that the Government of Canada can draw on for including refugee participants and advisors to future delegations to international meetings on the refugee system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In endorsing the launch of the Refugee Advisory Network, Minister Mendicino stated: \u201cWe are proud to build on Canada\u2019s leadership demonstrated at the Global Refugee Forum in Geneva to support this new initiative by The Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN)<\/a>. The initiative will amplify the voices of refugees so that they can better shape the policies that affect them. Having the experiences and insights of refugees at the table will strengthen Canada\u2019s contributions to the international refugee system.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For up-to-date info, visit the RAN Canada landing page:<\/h4>\n\n\n
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June 20, 2020\u2014Ottawa \u2013 On World Refugee Day 2020, the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN) is excited to announce plans to launch a Refugee Advisory Network to enhance the role of civil society\u2014and refugees themselves\u2014in the global refugee system. Plans for a Refugee Advisory Network follow the results of a September 2019 policy dialogue co-hosted by LERRN […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,121],"tags":[558],"class_list":["post-1956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-refugee-advisory-network-relevant-publications","tag-miscellaneous"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"announcement"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1956"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5106,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956\/revisions\/5106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}