{"id":655,"date":"2019-12-03T12:56:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T17:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/?p=655"},"modified":"2026-04-28T10:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:40:07","slug":"brainstorming-ways-to-support-refugee-participation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/2019\/brainstorming-ways-to-support-refugee-participation\/","title":{"rendered":"Brainstorming Ways to Support Refugee Participation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Brainstorming Ways to Support Refugee Participation\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>In September 2019, LERRN and the Refugee Hub convened researchers, practitioners and policymakers for a Policy Dialogue to explore how Canada can support meaningful refugee participation. Refugee-led organizations often express the principle \u201cnothing about us without us\u201d to highlight the importance of including refugees in discussions and decisions that impact their lives, not only when implementing projects and policies but also from the beginning of the design process. Participants proposed seven action items to support refugee participation going forward: a mentorship program for refugee leaders in Canada, refugee participation related to the Global Compact on Refugees, the development of guiding principles for refugee participation, support of creative expression, the creation of a fund to support refugee participation, and greater participation in the design of research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/250\/Outcomes-Refugee-Participation-Dialogue.pdf\">Outcomes Refugee Participation Dialogue here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In September 2019, LERRN and the Refugee Hub convened researchers, practitioners and policymakers for a Policy Dialogue to explore how Canada can support meaningful refugee participation. Refugee-led organizations often express the principle \u201cnothing about us without us\u201d to highlight the importance of including refugees in discussions and decisions that impact their lives, not only when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,144,195],"tags":[560],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-pwg-p","category-refugee-participation","tag-blogs"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"electronics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655","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=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}