Urbanisation: Refugee Economies and Access to Essential Services

Join us for a series of online discussions in which we will explore how academic findings and initiatives that can support decision-making processes to improve the lives of refugees, forcibly displaced persons, and host communities. Over two sessions on 24 and 25 May, a range of diverse research partners will showcase findings and initiatives that can support GCR stakeholders in making evidence-based decisions and policies based on reliable, independent research conducted by academics and persons with lived experience of forced displacement.
Key donors and supporters will also discuss the importance of producing actionable and relevant research that is led, co-designed and co-implemented with refugees and forcibly displaced persons.
Launched at the 2019 Global Refugee Forum, the Global Academic Interdisciplinary Network (GAIN) brings together universities, academic alliances, and research institutions, together with UNHCR and other relevant stakeholders to support the implementation of the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR).
Read more at phap.org/25may2022