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Research Uptake
Angela HaynesResearch Uptake Manager
What is research uptake?
• DFID terminology• More than: communication/ Engagement with
‘audiences’ / ‘stakeholders’ / ‘targets’• Get research off the shelf and into use• Begin at the start of the research• Continue throughout and beyond the life of
the research project
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Global Communications Team 2014
L-R: Wendy Landau (ACMS), Ansar Anas (RMMRU), Grace Baey (ARI), Angela Haynes (Sussex), Collins Yeboah (CMS)
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Main Audiences
• policy makers• NGOs, migrant organisations & think tanks:• media • Researchers outside of the consortium • NEW: private sector
Which policy makers?
• Intergovernmental / Multilateral – EU, UNDP, UNDESA, ILO
• Regional – economic communities e.g. ECOWAS, SADC; blocs e.g. AU
• Local/ municipal government• development donor community – DFID, SDC, • National governments in Africa and Asia• Northern governments e.g. Sweden, UK 10/04/2023 5
Which policy themes? Phase I
• Focus issues – construction and domestic workers; rural-urban migration/urbanisation; gender and migration
• Mainstreaming migration into national development strategies
• Post-2015 development framework
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Which policy themes? Phase II
• Remittances and youth aspirations• Counterfactuals – what would have happened
if no migration had occurred• Migration industry• Migration policy• Host communities’ perspectives
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Which policy fora?• Global Forum on Migration and Development
(GFMD)• Consultations and roundtables – European
Commission expert meeting on integrating migration into development strategies and the post-2015 agenda
• Organise conferences – urbanisation in Africa conference (Nov 2012); planned gender conference Jun 2015
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Communications Outputs• Policy briefs – rural-urban migration in Ghana; Indonesian domestic
workers in Singapore;• Film on domestic workers, “Ceria” http://
facebook.com/readingacrossworlds • Photographs - http://
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• Slideshow http://migratingoutofpoverty.dfid.gov.uk/newsandevents/18december/picturegallery
• Website http://www.migratingoutofpoverty.org • Posters10/04/2023 9
Activities• Newsletter Internal Migration Eye (IMigE)• Social media – tweets & blogs• UN Global Forum on Migration and Development
(GFMD) – active participation, 2014 stall• Meetings with national and local govt • Training – DFID, FCO Migration Directorate• EU: consultations re new migration policy • UN: discussions with UNITAR• Collaboration with Diaspora and migration NGOs10/04/2023 10
Challenges
• Relevant terminology – South-south v regional• Less policy focus on internal migration• Use of jargon, caveats, difficult language,
complexity• Cross-government coherence
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Engagement with media• TRAINING – migration and development;• BRIEFINGS and PRESS CONFERENCES• SHARE Migrating out of Poverty outputs – please
ensure that you and colleagues are on Sonia and Collins’s mailing lists
• TELL our audiences about your documentaries, photos, articles and broadcasts – tweet links to your reports
• FOLLOW US: @migrationrpc• ANY OTHER IDEAS?
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