Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks

Session title: Listening Better to Reach Inclusion: beyond age, disability and gender

Organizer(s): CLEAR Global, Minority Rights Group

8 May 24 09:00-10:30 UTC+2 (Salle 2)

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SessionAbstract

What don’t we know, and who aren’t we seeing?

Why does it matter?

And what can we do about it?

How can humanitarian organizations get the data they need to plan and implement inclusive programmes? How can they avoid data collection and analysis approaches that entrench the invisibility of those who aren’t being reached- often a significant proportion of the affected population.

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Speakers

Emily Elderfield, CLEAR Global

Emily Elderfield is Advocacy Officer at CLEAR Global, formerly known as Translators without Borders, which works to ensure people can get information and make themselves heard, whatever their language. This work has included projects supporting language awareness and inclusion of marginalized language speakers in humanitarian action in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Somalia and Ukraine.

Claire Thomas, Minority Rights Group

Claire Thomas is Co-Executive Director of Minority Rights Group. She initiated and oversaw an innovative methodology to assess whether exclusion linked to minority clan status took place in Somalia and if so, the exact degree and nature of its impacts. The study which was funded by the Swiss MFA is available here; https://minorityrights.org/resources/minority-inclusion-learning-review-of-the-ministry-of-foreign-affairs-of-switzerland-programmes-in-the-horn-of-africa/. The study is widely credited with focusing attention on continuing minority exclusion in Somalia and prompted many agencies to review their policies and procedures.

Ibrahim Hassan, MCAN

Ibrahim Hassan is CEO of the Marginalised Community Advocacy Network (MCAN). He is an active and vocal spokesperson for minority communities at risk of marginalization in Somalia. He oversaw MCAN's participation in a ground breaking minority inclusion study which documented the continuing impact of minority exclusion. Since 2022, he has been a full member of the Humanitarian Country Team and has raised issues of discrimination and exclusion that impact on ethnic and linguistic minority communities in Somalia regularly.

Mirianna Budimir, Practical Action

Dr Mirianna Budimir is the Senior Climate and Resilience Expert at Practical Action, an international non-profit organization working in Latin America, Africa, and South Asia. Mirianna is part of the team that conceptualized and applied Practical Action’s Missing Voices Approach, which aims to capture first-person perspectives of marginalized people in order to inform disaster risk management.