New partnerships: How international organisations can support refugee-led organisations
Public Seminar Series
Wednesday, 20 May 2020, 5pm to 6.30pm
Zoom webinar
Hosted by Refugee Studies Centre
Public Seminar Series, Trinity term 2020
#ByRefugees: Strengthening refugee-led humanitarian response during the Covid-19 pandemic
This seminar series focuses on refugee-led assistance and protection in the context of Covid-19. It features panels of individuals whose work is shaping how we understand and support refugee-led responses during crisis. Their accomplishments – whether as practitioners, policy influencers, funders, or community responders – challenge conventional top-down approaches to humanitarian assistance. These approaches are increasingly important in the current context, in which traditional humanitarian capacity has been stretched and forced to adapt. Refugee-led organisations are on the frontline of the response, in both refugee camps and cities.
The series will explore how refugees are responding to the current crisis, reflect on how they can be supported by external actors, and consider the prospects for creating lasting forms of participatory humanitarian governance. The majority of panelists are refugees.
All seminars will take place over Zoom and will allow time for Q&A sessions with the panelists. The series will also be livestreamed on Youtube and recorded.
Series Conveners: Alexander Betts and Andonis Marden (Refugee Studies Centre) and Shaza Al Rihawi, Anila Noor, Najeeba Wazefadost and Mustafa Alio (Global Refugee-Led Network)
Enquiries to Annelies Lawson (annelies.lawson@qeh.ox.ac.uk)
Please note, all times listed are in BST (British Summer Time)
Seminar 3
New partnerships: How international organisations can support refugee-led organisations
Dana Al Anzy – Partnership Associate, Civil Society and NGO Division, UNHCR (Geneva)
Edmund Page – CEO, Xavier Project (Kenya & Uganda)
What role can international organisations play in supporting refugee-led humanitarian response? And how has the Covid-19 pandemic affected this relationship? In this seminar speakers will examine what exactly should 'localisation' look like, and what have been the challenges and successes their organisations have encountered while trying to advance this agenda. The seminar will last approximately 90 minutes, with half the time allocated to Q&A.