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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