Establishing a bold influencing agenda aimed at changing policies, practices, and investments at national, regional, and global levels by encouraging adoption of program evidence and learning.
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Our aim is to ensure that Re:Build’s scope of change extends across Kampala and Nairobi, and beyond to any city hosting refugees. The specific outcomes for our Influence and Adoption pillar are focused on two levels:
- Enabling policy change through national, regional and global policy makers.
- Sector change within the humanitarian and development community, who in turn must engage local private sector stakeholders.
- Using our evidence and learnings, we promote the value and effectiveness of urban refugee livelihoods programming.
Campaigns
Campaigns are tools employed by Re:Build to influence policy and practice at a global, regional, national and community level. In 2022, Re:Build conducted a campaign on the cost-of-living crisis for urban communities in Kampala and Nairobi which climaxed with the launch of a policy brief in October of the same year. The brief was launched during the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) conference on the Kampala Declaration held in Nairobi. The brief called on donors and host governments to provide humanitarian assistance and national social protection on the basis of a human right without discrimination based on refugee status and location. Globally, the Re:Build brief was presented at the UNHCR’s dialogue on protection challenges in Geneva.
In 2023, Re:Build is conducting a six-month long campaign on ‘Decent Work’ to promote refugees’ access to decent work in Nairobi and Kampala. The campaign aims to ensure that employers, governments, the private sector , humanitarian, and development actors understand the regulatory framework governing the type of employment that refugees can access and adopt strategies and practices that address barriers to refugee access to the formal and decent work.
Reports & policy briefs
In June 2022, Re:Build launched a report which analyzed refugee-related laws and policies in Uganda and Kenya and their responsiveness to urban refugee needs and called on governments, donors, the private sector, non-government organisations and other actors to do more in promoting urban refugees’ self-reliance. Re:Build is working on a policy brief on Decent Work to be launched in September 2023. Reports and policy briefs are tools through which the program shares evidence and innovative sustainable livelihoods solutions on what works and doesn’t work in promoting urban refugee self-reliance in East Africa and beyond.
Community level advocacy
In both Kampala and Nairobi, Re:Build conducts community-level advocacy through partners PLAVU and Pamoja Trust, respectively. Our community-level advocacy promotes social cohesion, peaceful co-existence, inclusion of refugees in governance spaces and amplification of refugee and host community voices. The community-level advocacy is complemented by the national level engagements the program has with city authorities in Kampala and Nairobi.