Social protection and sustainable peace in the Middle East and North Africa Region: Building a new welfare-centered politics
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Bath
Department Name: Social and Policy Sciences
Abstract
Led by the MENA Social Policy Network, University of Bath, www.menasp.com (founded in 2012 and convened by Jawad, PI), in partnership with the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), this proposal brings together a host of UK and international research leaders and partner organisations to undertake an ambitious programme of cross-disciplinary innovation and capability development in the governance of social policy in MENA. The distinctive contribution this network will make is to introduce a paradigm shift in MENA conflict prevention research, policy and practice that will enhance the social welfare politics of Arab countries in the Sothern Mediterranean region (Levant and North Africa) - our geographical focus. These are ODA compliant countries, the highest exporters of economic migration to Europe and historically, at the nexus of armed conflict in MENA. The Network management team includes expertise in ethics, mental health and disability, Middle East history, anthropology, urban planning and the environment, gender, visual arts and education.
Our Network vision is: to demonstrate, through a mutually supportive framework of innovative, cross-disciplinary research and capacity development for policy change, how effective social policy governance in MENA can provide nuanced and contextualised pathways to peace and emerging localised solution-driven initiatives. We will do this through a programme of work that will serve GCRF goals as follows: (1) maximising the impact of Co-I-led proof of concepts and an £800,000's worth of LMIC and UK-led commissioned research strand that is co-designed with LMIC partners and builds on localised expertise; (2) fostering shared learning across innovative peacebuilding research projects and testing the feasibility, scalability, transferability and effectiveness of different approaches across diverse fragile MENA countries; (3) bringing conflict prevention research more centrally into sustainable development planning and programming through the apparatus of social policy governance and its affiliated concept of social protection thereby addressing directly SDGs 1, 3 (reduce poverty; achieve wellbeing across life course), 5 (achieve gender equality), 10 (reduce inequalities) and 11 (promote inclusive peace). Our aims are: (1) Cross-disciplinary innovation: to improve knowledge bases and practices in conflict prevention and sustainable peace in MENA by focusing on the interconnections between community-level social justice grievances and the macro-level governance of social policy; (2) Capacity development of existing research and policy practice: we will support policy learning and "design thinking" such as through policy labs, social policy governance seminars and an e-learning course for policy-makers.
We argue that there is momentum for a fresh and expanded reassessment of the nature and scope of conflict in MENA which directly addresses the long-overlooked question of community-level social justice grievances and how these react against or are reproduced by macro-level political decision-making. We will advance current knowledge and practice by showing how conflict prevention and social policy governance share common concerns: how to enable communities to live cohesively and share resources equitably. This is a fundamentally cross-disciplinary question about state-society relations, otherwise referred to in the contemporary international development literature as "political settlements". It is an issue of relevance to volatile MENA countries that are now implementing austerity policies at a time when they are also mandated to produce national development plans supporting the universal social protection vision of the SDG 2030 agenda. The challenges of social and income inequality in MENA are stark: in a 2015 report, the World Bank acknowledged the need to address the "quality of life" grievances that had fueled the Arab uprisings.
Our Network vision is: to demonstrate, through a mutually supportive framework of innovative, cross-disciplinary research and capacity development for policy change, how effective social policy governance in MENA can provide nuanced and contextualised pathways to peace and emerging localised solution-driven initiatives. We will do this through a programme of work that will serve GCRF goals as follows: (1) maximising the impact of Co-I-led proof of concepts and an £800,000's worth of LMIC and UK-led commissioned research strand that is co-designed with LMIC partners and builds on localised expertise; (2) fostering shared learning across innovative peacebuilding research projects and testing the feasibility, scalability, transferability and effectiveness of different approaches across diverse fragile MENA countries; (3) bringing conflict prevention research more centrally into sustainable development planning and programming through the apparatus of social policy governance and its affiliated concept of social protection thereby addressing directly SDGs 1, 3 (reduce poverty; achieve wellbeing across life course), 5 (achieve gender equality), 10 (reduce inequalities) and 11 (promote inclusive peace). Our aims are: (1) Cross-disciplinary innovation: to improve knowledge bases and practices in conflict prevention and sustainable peace in MENA by focusing on the interconnections between community-level social justice grievances and the macro-level governance of social policy; (2) Capacity development of existing research and policy practice: we will support policy learning and "design thinking" such as through policy labs, social policy governance seminars and an e-learning course for policy-makers.
We argue that there is momentum for a fresh and expanded reassessment of the nature and scope of conflict in MENA which directly addresses the long-overlooked question of community-level social justice grievances and how these react against or are reproduced by macro-level political decision-making. We will advance current knowledge and practice by showing how conflict prevention and social policy governance share common concerns: how to enable communities to live cohesively and share resources equitably. This is a fundamentally cross-disciplinary question about state-society relations, otherwise referred to in the contemporary international development literature as "political settlements". It is an issue of relevance to volatile MENA countries that are now implementing austerity policies at a time when they are also mandated to produce national development plans supporting the universal social protection vision of the SDG 2030 agenda. The challenges of social and income inequality in MENA are stark: in a 2015 report, the World Bank acknowledged the need to address the "quality of life" grievances that had fueled the Arab uprisings.
Planned Impact
Academic impact: LMIC researchers based in universities, NGOs, government institutions and independent think tanks are the primary academic beneficiary group. Our international Co-Is, partner organisations such as CREAD, IFI and ARDD-legal aid and the early career researchers in our advisory board (such as Bailey - UK, Zaki - Egypt and Al Jabiri - Iraq) already give an idea of the wide range of researchers we will work with and who will support the commissioning and synthesis of our network activities. The Network will undertake a suite of capacity building and knowledge sharing activities with strand (ii) grant-holders, including ECRs and researchers in our partner organisations, civil society and policy stakeholder groups using various tools such as research ethics training (IFI, Lebanon seminar in year 1) and social policy governance (CREAD, Algeria Seminar in year 2). In addition, researchers will benefit from peer mentoring activities and an e-learning course (see IPC-IG letter of support). In line with the Impact strategy and Theory of Change plan, the project manager will support the management team in tracking the milestone academic activities of the network through progress meetings, mentoring clinics, synthesis events and the online tools of the www.menasp.com website.
Societal impact: There are various ways in which our Network will achieve societal impact since it is directly focused on understanding and tackling the major social justice grievances that drive conflict in MENA such as precarious work, social exclusion and lack of voice . Indeed, our research will directly enhance understanding and test the applicability of the current spread of the Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) framework which is informing government and donor agency interventions in MENA countries and calling into question state capacities in addressing the rights and needs of citizens and refugee populations. Hence, policy officials both internationally and in MENA, community groups and NGOs working on conflict prevention, social protection and social justice issues are key stakeholder groups. By engaging global organisations as Network partners (such as Friends of the British Council, UNDP, IPC-IG, Centre for Social Development in Africa, Centre for Poverty, IFI-AUB and NGOs such as the ARDD-legal aid), this proposal will directly reach, inform and influence state and civil society actors in MENA. It will do this by exposing them to new policy learning opportunities and involving them in the analysis and synthesis of project findings. The Policy Lab activity in year 3 (Mohammad V University, Morocco) feeds directly into the societal impact pathway since it provides a safe space to introduce principles and elements of "design thinking" to NGOs working on social protection issues. Marginalised populations such as unemployed youth, refugees, female-headed households, people with disabilities, religious minorities are also key beneficiary groups. The Network will work with its advisory board and partners to create space for new policy dialogue by engaging hard-to-reach groups like unorganized male protesters in Basra (Iraq), powerful religious endowment institutions or Waqfs (Lebanon, Jordan, Tunisia), marginalised populations (such as IDPS in borders along Yemen and Syria) and people with disabilities (whether this is caused by conflict or not). This effort directly supports the aim of the network to link micro- and macro-level analysis of social policy governance. The policy lab will be a way to reach marginalised populations via their community representatives.
In our due diligence and planning meetings, we will highlight examples of confirming actions or corrective actions that may be taken by the management team to mitigate the risk factors to the theory of change assumptions. We will rely on pre-existing networks of trust that our management team and advisory board provide to anticipate risks to our impact pathway strategy.
Societal impact: There are various ways in which our Network will achieve societal impact since it is directly focused on understanding and tackling the major social justice grievances that drive conflict in MENA such as precarious work, social exclusion and lack of voice . Indeed, our research will directly enhance understanding and test the applicability of the current spread of the Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) framework which is informing government and donor agency interventions in MENA countries and calling into question state capacities in addressing the rights and needs of citizens and refugee populations. Hence, policy officials both internationally and in MENA, community groups and NGOs working on conflict prevention, social protection and social justice issues are key stakeholder groups. By engaging global organisations as Network partners (such as Friends of the British Council, UNDP, IPC-IG, Centre for Social Development in Africa, Centre for Poverty, IFI-AUB and NGOs such as the ARDD-legal aid), this proposal will directly reach, inform and influence state and civil society actors in MENA. It will do this by exposing them to new policy learning opportunities and involving them in the analysis and synthesis of project findings. The Policy Lab activity in year 3 (Mohammad V University, Morocco) feeds directly into the societal impact pathway since it provides a safe space to introduce principles and elements of "design thinking" to NGOs working on social protection issues. Marginalised populations such as unemployed youth, refugees, female-headed households, people with disabilities, religious minorities are also key beneficiary groups. The Network will work with its advisory board and partners to create space for new policy dialogue by engaging hard-to-reach groups like unorganized male protesters in Basra (Iraq), powerful religious endowment institutions or Waqfs (Lebanon, Jordan, Tunisia), marginalised populations (such as IDPS in borders along Yemen and Syria) and people with disabilities (whether this is caused by conflict or not). This effort directly supports the aim of the network to link micro- and macro-level analysis of social policy governance. The policy lab will be a way to reach marginalised populations via their community representatives.
In our due diligence and planning meetings, we will highlight examples of confirming actions or corrective actions that may be taken by the management team to mitigate the risk factors to the theory of change assumptions. We will rely on pre-existing networks of trust that our management team and advisory board provide to anticipate risks to our impact pathway strategy.
Organisations
- University of Bath (Lead Research Organisation)
- Mohammed V University (Collaboration)
- Maastricht University (UM) (Collaboration)
- Western University (Collaboration)
- Lebanon Support (Collaboration)
- University of Johannesburg (Project Partner)
- Intl Ctr Pol for Inclusive Growth IPC-IG (Project Partner)
- United Nations Development Programme (Project Partner)
- Friends of the British Council USA Inc. (Project Partner)
- ARDD-Legal Aid (Project Partner)
- Centre for Poverty Analysis (Project Partner)
- Centre de Recherche en Economie Appliquée pour le Développement (Project Partner)
- American University of Beirut (Project Partner)
Publications
Rana Jawad
(2020)
Covid and social protection in the MENA region
Rana Jawad
(2020)
Religion, social policy and populism
in Social Policy and Society
Jawad R
(2020)
Social Protection and the Pandemic in the MENA Region
in Current History
ARDD Jordan
(2021)
Briefs about the state of Social Protection in the Arab World
Barsoum G
(2021)
From Fisher wives to fish vendors: Gendered livelihood transitions in a fishing village in Egypt
in Journal of Rural Studies
Barsoum G
(2021)
Evaluating the Impact of Entrepreneurship Edutainment in Egypt: An Experimental Approach.
in Economica
ARDD Jordan
(2021)
Coping with COVID-19 in Jordan: A gendered human security approach
Said M
(2021)
Sticky Floors and Glass Ceilings: Gender Wage Gap in Egypt
in Female Economics
Description | Preliminary findings: - policy actors working on social protection and conflict issues are still not aligned and further work is needed to understand where synergies lie. - MENA countries have focused on more on the issue of national security understood as law and order rather than welfare. This limits the prospects for sustainable peace. - Members the team are examining evidence that humanitarian interventions may better better addressing the issue of conflict prevention by integrating services for refugees into existing national systems - climate change is an issue that we are also examining and findings are due to emerge - We are now producing policy briefs that will be disseminated at our end of project conference. Awarded projects are also underway. - Prof Timo Kivimaki's research has found that: the causal relationships between state fragility in the MENA region and the consequent problems of social deprivation and injustice as well as processes of violence and conflict there. By answering this question, this part of the research has also given answers to the question of what methods of policies of governance and capacity building addresses the kind of problems of state fragility that help conflict prevention best. By state fragility, this briefing refers to problems in the legitimacy and efficiency of the management of the state's social, economic, political and security management. By organised violence we mean 1. armed conflicts, 2. one-sided violence (authoritarian violence, terrorist violence against civilians, etc.) and 3. non-state violence, i.e. conflicts without state involvement. |
Exploitation Route | - In depth insights about the political economy of social policy and conflict prevention will support more contextually-relevant policy making - future researchers are gaining skills through the awards we are commissioning - civil society, donors and government agencies are gaining better insights about how to enhance social protection interventions |
Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy Environment Healthcare Government Democracy and Justice Security and Diplomacy |
URL | http://www.menasp.com |
Description | The network is expanding and building momentum internationally as a credible and safe space for rigorous knowledge sharing about social policy and conflict prevention in the MENA region. We are collaborating with new partners like ARI, Cardno and have gained new funding from The Ford Foundation. We have started webinar series and our efforts for early careers are really taking off and gaining momentum. We are starting a campaign to feed back to our stakeholder the key findings from our research outputs, for example we have recently published a special issue on state legitimacy and social services that we will disseminate widely and we are also planning a new internal network survey to disseminate policy expertise on social protection and conflict prevention. We are also starting a new special issue on sustainable peace. Our members are regularly invited to speak at key social policy events around the world. An external and independent evaluation of the network has been carried out which has provided very useful insights a bout its influence and potential future impact. We know for example that the network helps researchers form a professional identity and also, its outputs are respected and referenced in the MENA region and beyond. |
First Year Of Impact | 2022 |
Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Environment,Healthcare,Government, Democracy and Justice,Security and Diplomacy |
Impact Types | Cultural Societal Economic Policy & public services |
Description | Policy lab training and exchange event |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Stakeholder consultation meetings - Lebanon/Jordan |
Geographic Reach | Asia |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Social protection and Covid-19 in MENA |
Amount | $645,000 (USD) |
Organisation | Ford Foundation |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United States |
Start | 03/2021 |
End | 03/2023 |
Title | Ethics training tools |
Description | Ethnics training films and guidance |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | training tools and methods |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V69KkmfagZY&t=65s |
Title | Research Ethics video case studies |
Description | Part of the Research Ethics tools include case study videos - learnings from different countries. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Helping researchers improve their ethics and to overcome challenges in their contexts. |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpJyZ0GAcuM |
Title | Strengthening the development of 'Policy Lab' methodology |
Description | Policy Labs bring together key stakeholders (from service users to policy-makers) to discuss policy and opportunities for change, solutions, or improvements through regular 'labs' online or in-person sessions. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | Better communication between all key policy stakeholders in the policy cycle. Sharing knowledge and building regular communication with other policy labs to better improve the methods. |
Title | MENA social policy expertise |
Description | I established the IPR MENA social policy network which now includes over 1000 contacts and members. This is a platform for communication about MENA social policy research and has helped to build a community of experts on social policy in the MENA region. We will continue work on this database as part of the AHRC development award. We continue to develop this database and it will support out GCRF network analysis. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2013 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | I now organise the bi-monthly conference on MENA social policy with host institutions. Most recently, this was the GDIE in Bonn and the forthcoming collaborator will be Cairo University. I successfully gained a contract with UNICEF, Middle East office in Jordan to establish a database on social policy expertise in the MENA region. I am also regularly contacted to act as the MENA lead on other projects. For instance, there is a new database on social safety nets in Developing countries which is funded by DFID-ESRC and led by Manchester University and I am in charge of the MENA charge in this database - www.gdi.manchester.ac.uk |
URL | http://www.bath.ac.uk/cds/projects-activities/UNICEF/index.html |
Title | Survey on social protection and conflict prevention in MENA |
Description | Forthcoming Survey on knowledge of social protection related to conflict prevention in MENA We have selected three survey companies and aim to being data collection imminently in Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | The survey is in development ahead of data collection. We are about to being data collection. |
Title | The Fragility-Grievances-Conflict Triangle in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA): An Exploration of the Correlative Associations |
Description | The Fragility-Grievances-Conflict Triangle in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA): An Exploration of the Correlative Associations |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | The Fragility-Grievances-Conflict Triangle in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA): An Exploration of the Correlative Associations |
Description | 1st network meeting - Dubai 7-9 March 2020 |
Organisation | Lebanon Support |
Country | Lebanon |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Lebanon support is an NGO working in conflict and social protection in Lebanon. They are a new network partner whom we have scoped and they will take part in our forthcoming workshop. |
Collaborator Contribution | They will give us feedback on our network strategies and ethics plan. They will also help us reach policy stakeholders in the region. They therefore help us achieve key criteria of the AHRC network plus both in the development and inception phase. |
Impact | Various outputs will emerge from the Dubai workshop such as an ethics protocol. |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Capacity building of students through proof of concept work |
Organisation | Western University |
Country | Canada |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Rachel Forrester-Jones and Rana Jawad have practicum students at Western University to support the development of their shared proof of concept. They provide guidance and training to the students while the students gain valuable experience working on the research. |
Collaborator Contribution | Students are undertaking key work for the development of a proof of concept. |
Impact | - |
Start Year | 2022 |
Description | Early Careers events and others on human security with Maastricht University - Tamara Kool and Des Gasper |
Organisation | Maastricht University (UM) |
Country | Netherlands |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Joint events collaboration on human security |
Collaborator Contribution | Ideas, organisation, inviting speakers and attendees |
Impact | Not yet - in planning phase |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Expanding understanding of social policy and conflict prevention in MENA at University of Western Ontario |
Organisation | Western University |
Country | Canada |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Through one of the Co-Investigators, Rachel Forrester-Jones, moving to work at the University of Western Ontario we have a new partnership and opportunities to hold events and trainings and share knowledge between the University and project team. |
Collaborator Contribution | Additional experts to speak at events or participate in activities. |
Impact | - Share health policy focused event - New network of attendees for events and webinars - enhanced relationship with another institution for the Netwrok |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Partnered with Moroccan Institute for Advanced Studies (MIAS), Mohammed V University (MVU) to co-host the MENASP Bi-Annual Conference |
Organisation | Mohammed V University |
Country | Morocco |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | The MENASP network hosts a bi-annual conference focused on Social Policy in the MENA region. For our 10th Anniversary and 5th Bi-annual conference we put together a hybrid conference in Rabat Morocco. The MENASP Network oversaw the call for papers, conference content planning, promotions and booking transport and accommodation for speakers and our team. The MENASP Network were co-hosts at the conference. The Network is overseeing the call for papers for the conference proceedings. |
Collaborator Contribution | MIAS provided the venues, local knowledge and promotions, catering, technical and operational support to the conference. It was hosted in the University buildings. MIAS provided support to the call for papers and conference planning. MIAS continue to work with The MENASP Network on the conference proceedings. |
Impact | The conference resulted in the sharing of new research, training practices and knowledge to academics, practitioners and policy makers focused on social policy in the MENA region. The conference gave focus to the relationship between social policy and conflict prevention in the MENA region providing new evidence and tools for the themes of conflict prevention and social policy. |
Start Year | 2022 |
Description | Arab Forum for sustainable Development |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Invited to take pare in panel SDG 1 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Bi-Annual Conference on social policy in MENA |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | In July 2023, The MENASP Network together with MIAS, Mohammed V University, Morocco, hosted a bi-annual conference on social policy in the MENA region with a focus on conflict prevention. The two day conference in rabat took a hybrid format with papers, presentations, roundtable discussions, and networking. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.menasp.com/en/past-conferences/ |
Description | Blog series |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | A series of blogs on being a refugee during the COVID-19 pandemic |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
URL | https://ardd-jo.org/Series/i-am-a-refugee-in-the-age-of-coronavirus-blog |
Description | Blogs |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Blogs on a range of topics |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019,2020,2021 |
Description | Blogs from Network members |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Regular blog with featured writers within the network on topics focused on social policy and conflict prevention in MENA. Comparative and interdisciplinary studies have been featured and the blogs receive wide readership. The blogs also bring new people into the network as the guest writers share with their own networks. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021,2022 |
URL | https://www.menasp.com/en/outreach/ |
Description | Early Career Researchers engagement: workshops, mentoring and webinar series |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Multiple events organised as part of the Early Career Researchers initiatives to provide mentoring, knowledge-sharing and training opportunities for ECRs focused on social policy in the MENA region. There have been a mixture of in-person and predominantly virtual events given the regional and international reach aimed at providing accessible support and resources to ECRs. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021,2022,2023 |
URL | https://www.menasp.com/en/news/menasps-early-career-researchers-ecr-initiative/ |
Description | Establishment of the MENASP network website |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | website allowing wider engagement with academics and policy-makers source of information and analysis |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019,2020 |
URL | http://www.menasp.com |
Description | Invited speaker |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited speaker on social protection - Arab reform Initiative |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Keynote talk to Research Programme on Religious Communities and Sustainable Development Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | Keynote on religion and development to Research Programme on Religious Communities and Sustainable Development Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Newsletter |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Quarterly newsletter |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019,2020,2021 |
Description | PODCAST |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | A podcast about my research |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.bath.ac.uk/research-centres/centre-for-the-analysis-of-social-policy/ |
Description | Policy Innovation Case Studies |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Policy innovation case studies (PICS) on a range of topics including employment, civil society, social accountability and social assistance These activities continue to go strong. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019,2020,2021 |
URL | http://www.menasp.com |
Description | Policy lab training and exchange event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The policy lab training and exchange event sought to share insights into effective policy labs in conflict affected states, particularly in the MENA region. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Policy statement |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | ARDD provided an urgent statement on Monitoring Access to Healthcare Services and Legal Protection among low-income Jordanians and Refugees |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://ardd-jo.org/ar/News-Room/statement-on-monitoring-access-to-healthcare-services-and-legal-pro... |
Description | Quarterly newsletter |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The newsletter is a core information source on social policy in MENA. It provides a round of of key events, publications and opportunities for involvement for the readers, with members sharing their news. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021,2022 |
URL | https://menasp.us8.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=a46ca0f578daa355077ab93bc&id=a5ca2e56cd |
Description | Spotify - Podcast series |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The Network produced a series of podcasts to widen the reach of our interviews and webinars. Making people able to listen on commutes or doing other tasks. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
Description | Stakeholder engagement event: Jordan |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | In March 2023, we ran a stakeholder engagement event in Jordan to share our work on social policy and conflict prevention in the MENA region and discuss topics of communicating new research with the public and policy-makers. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Webinar series |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | In Autumn 2021, we launched a monthly webinar series with speakers from within and outside of the MENASP Network on topics related to social policy and conflict prevention in MENA. This has continued into 2023 and into early 2024. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022,2023 |
URL | https://www.menasp.com/en/news/launching-the-menasp-network-webinar-series-last-wednesday-of-each-mo... |