Empowering Refugee-Led Organisations - ‘Civil Society Innovation and Urban Inclusion’ #8

For the Centre’s 2020 Report on ‘Civil Society Innovation and Urban Inclusion’, we’re speaking with inspirational innovators from civil society organisations (CSOs) around the world to hear the stories of their advocacy and programming work to make cities more inclusive.

In this episode, colleagues from Urban Refugees and their partners from refugee-led organisations (RLOs) in Uganda and East Africa, tell us about the context for their work in the Ugandan capital city, Kampala, why RLOs are best positioned to meet their communities needs, and how and why they should be viewed as equal partners by other actors in the humanitarian system with higher levels of resources and support.

We spoke with:
• Julia Zahreddine, Advocacy Co-ordinator, Urban Refugees
• Jessica Sallard, Head of Mission, Urban Refugees Incubation Program (or URIP) in Uganda
• Robert Hakiza, Executive Director of Young African Refugees for Integral Development (YARID)
• Shima Bahre Abdalla, Deputy Chairperson of the Sudanese Women for Peace and Development Association (SWPDA)
• Keyidri Idri, Administrator of United South Sudanese Urban Refugees Community (USSURC)
• JeanPaul Kasika, Executive Director of the African Youth Initiative for Development (AYID) and Board member of the Global Refugee-led Network (GRN) African Chapter

Explore the Centre’s ‘Civil Society Innovation and Urban Inclusion’ report: http://icscentre.org/innovationreport from November 2020.

Find out more about Urban Refugees at their website: http://www.urban-refugees.org/ or on Twitter https://twitter.com/UrbanRefugees, Instagram https://www.instagram.com/urban.refugees/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/urbanrefugees.

Find out more about:
• YARID at their website: https://www.yarid.org/
• AYID at their website: https://www.ayid-africa.org/
• GRN at their website: https://www.globalrefugeelednetwork.org/who-we-are/

This podcast is kindly supported by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and its Strong Cities 2030 initiative. Promoting global collaboration and knowledge sharing for sustainable urban development. Find out more about Stronger Cities 2030 at: https://www.kas.de/en/strong-cities-2030.