COMING BACK, STARTING AGAIN

Episode 1 of the Cities of Refuge and Return Podcast series sets the foundation. It introduces LLEARN -Local Leadership East Africa Return and Reintegration Network-, a research and action project working across five East African cities to understand and strengthen how reintegration actually works on the ground. 

This episode explains what reintegration means in practice (economic, social, psychosocial, and political dimensions), how LLEARN's research was conducted across nearly 1,900 households and five countries, and how the Participatory Forum model works. It previews the five cities, Bosaso, Kakuma, Aweil, Dessie, and Koboko, and introduces the central tension of the series: policies describe reintegration as a transition; for people, it is a negotiation that never really ends.

Hosted by Mwara Namelok. Produced by Samuel Hall for LLEARN. Funded by the European Union and contracted by ICMPD through the MMD Grant Facility. With Partners: The Consortium of Ethiopian Human Rights Organizations (CEHRO), Youth Voices Community (YVC), Tadamun Social Society, Bridge Network and the South Sudanese Refugee Association

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