Migration, Urbanisation and Conflict in Africa (MUCA)

Lead Research Organisation: Addis Ababa University
Department Name: Institute for Peace and Security Studies

Abstract

Africa, the world's least urbanised region, is experiencing the fastest rates of urban growth on the globe. Although partly a consequence of natural population increase and reclassification of previously rural areas as urban, in many cities in-migration constitutes the dominant source of urbanisation. While this trend has potential to contribute to economic growth and dynamism, rapid urban population growth can leave already overstretched municipal authorities unable to catch up, leading to massive failures in infrastructure and service provision, proper tenure documentation, and regulated settlement patterns.

Africa's urban dwellers are increasingly vulnerable to risks relating to demographic pressure, impacts of climate and environmental change, and social, economic and political hazards. A significant proportion of Africa's urbanites are likely to settle in slums, with uncertain property rights and public services, and will struggle to secure a decent life in contexts of few employment opportunities. All too often these processes also produce increasing social tension, conflict and violence. These dynamics have direct and wide-ranging ramifications for the delivery of SDGs, most notably in terms of keeping up with service delivery demands and providing decent, well-paid jobs to a rapidly increasing urban population (SDG 8). This potentially translates into increasing vertical inequality (SDG 10), as well as difficulties in building sustainable cities (SDG 11) and ensuring peace, justice and the rule of law (SDG 16).

Yet despite the widespread consensus that urban sustainability and inclusion are now crucial for future stability and wellbeing in most African countries, the ways in which migration feeds into current urban challenges is poorly understood. Urban in-migration has complex and contradictory consequences in contemporary Africa, and is all too often associated with 'crisis narratives' and disorder in the absence of an adequate knowledge base on when and how migration leads to conflict. Some existing research has explored changing rural-urban migration dynamics, while other research examines the rise in different forms of urban violence - but very little research has explored the crucial inter-relationships between all three phenomena (urbanisation, migration and violent conflict) in a sustained and comparative way. These relationships are however only like to rise in importance in the context of population growth, increased pressure on land, and displacement related to climate change.

MUCA will address this gap, providing an evidence base to facilitate a better understanding of the conditions under which migration combines with other factors to worsen urban conflict - or indeed to alleviate it. This will be pursued through a structured comparative research design that involves nine cities covering three very different kinds of migration-affected cities spread across the three research countries of Ethiopia, Nigeria and Uganda. These countries are chosen to offer a spread of Eastern and Western African cases and different legacies of conflict and population movement. The three city types are i) large 'primate' cities affected by competition over high value land, high ethnic diversity and conflict over lucrative resources in the informal economy; ii) secondary cities affected by major industrial investments (historically or more recently) that are seeing new forms of in-migration and conflict relating to tensions around employment, land, and service delivery; and iii) cities experiencing a major influx of people displaced by regional or international conflicts.

Through an exploration of the migration-conflict-urbanisation nexus in these cities, guided by the aims and objectives set out in the section on 'objectives', MUCA will provide evidence for development agencies, urban planners, and policy makers to build a more peaceful urban Africa in the years to come.

Planned Impact

This research aims to impact the following groups of direct beneficiaries:

a) Municipal and national government agencies in Ethiopia, Nigeria and Uganda
b) NGOs and local civil society organizations working on issues of urban development, conflict and forced displacement in the nine case study cities and nationally within the three countries
c) Intergovernmental agencies and donors including UN-HABITAT, The Intergovernmental Organization for Migration, UN OCHA, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, Economic Community of West African States, the African Union and the UK Department for International Development
d) International NGOs including the International Rescue Committee, Saferworld and Oxfam GB
Indirect beneficiaries include:
e) Rural-urban migrants in the case study cities and more broadly, through impacts on national-level policy, NGO programming and CSO practices
f) City-dwellers affected by urban conflict linked to in-migration within the case study cities and more broadly, through impacts on national-level policy, NGO programming and CSO practices

The direct beneficiaries will be impacted through the provision of a robust and detailed evidence base on comparative experiences of migration-related urban conflict (and attempts to mitigate it). This will enable policy and programming that is more sensitive to contextual differences and the range of perspectives foregrounded in our research. These beneficiaries will also benefit from engaging with each other, bridging policy silos and scales, through the national and regional/international impact events across the three years of the programme. By holding major policy events at the national level in Year 1 and Year 3, beneficiaries spanning governmental, inter-governmental and non-governmental spheres will engage in dialogue from an early stage, benefiting from mutual learning as well as through being able to shape aspects of the research in line with their own concerns.
Meanwhile, bringing municipal government into conversation with CSOs to explore the migration-urbanisation-conflict nexus through our stakeholder dialogues in all nine cities in Years 1 and 2 will create a platform for deepened cross-sectoral engagement. The country research teams will also identify several rural-urban migrants and long-term city-dwellers in conflict-affected areas to invite to the second stakeholder dialogue in each city, facilitating in-depth discussions of the research and emerging findings. This will further impact all stakeholders by generating potential for enhanced mutual relations and communications channels.
We will further ensure impact on direct beneficiaries through widespread dissemination of policy briefing papers laying out the implications of the research findings in each city, along with a number of comparative and cross-cutting thematic briefing papers highlighting findings in key areas. These will be supported by the participation of team members in a side event at the UN-HABITAT World Urban Forum in 2022, as well as potentially any major international conference on migration that is arranged for that year. Additionally, municipal officials and relevant CSOs will be impacted by the 3-day training events to be held in each country in the third quarter of the final year of the project, including through the development of multi-stakeholder urban conflict mitigation strategies that can inform policymaking and programming at the city level. Indirect beneficiaries in the form of e) and f) above will be impacted both through any changes in policy and programming achieved through the impacts on direct beneficiaries, and through heightened awareness among state and societal actors of the challenges they face. Ultimately the project aims to impact these indirect beneficiaries as widely as possible through contributing to improved policies and practices to manage displacement and urban in-migration, leading to improved urban social relations and peace.

Publications

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Description - Predominance of economic migrants in primate and industrial cities, while victims of forced displacement (internal or international) dominate the inter-migration stock in the third tier cities;
- Settlement patterns follow spatial segregation and enclaves along ethnic and religious lines, especially in cities dominated by displacement;
-Access to land and resources is a major cause of conflicts;
- Undocumented migrants contribute to insecurity and conflicts across cities.
-Migration and urbanisation tend to exacerbate existing conflicts or contribute to the emergence of new ones, particularly when urban areas become flashpoints for resource contestation and economic struggle.
-Conflicts are sometimes violent in nature with the youths holding control of communities at street levels.
-Conflicts are sometimes sectoral in nature (Ex transport sector).
-Local/traditional structure is more effective for conflict management at community levels, but weak as it lacks the ability to sanction.

NON RESEARCH FINDINGS:
There is need for further collaboration between knowledge institutions and civil society and development practitioners eg IOM on issues of migration
-The relationship between architecture and conflicts in cities: Poor urban planning limits the ability of security agencies to respond to situations of conflict and insecurity.
-Significant gap in internal migration data, as well as IDP response
-The Nigerian state relies too heavily on the cooperation of gangsters and warlords to enforce narrow order, with political implications. Stakeholders engagements revealed insights into the collusion between government's security agencies and actors in conflicts.
-Border cities are flashpoints because of illicit trafficking and migration.
Exploitation Route The outcomes inform academic debates on the relationship between migration, urbanisation and conflict. At the center of this contestation is the 'right to the city' of migrants, which is not yet properly recognised by the literature. Our work has highlighted different levels and types of exposures to conflict between primate, secondary/industrial and displacement cities. There is now need to adopt a more quantitative method led research, while paying attention to different pathways to understanding conflict causation in particular areas/spaces as well as sectors. There is also need to pay attention to much smaller cities which have differnet sociologies and demographies than the nine cities we studied under this project.
Sectors Communities and Social Services/Policy

Government

Democracy and Justice

 
Description 5-week visit by Early Career Researchers (Asebe Amenu Tufa, Edegelign Hailu, Esther Thontteh, Kennedy Eborka, Hakimu Sseviiri) to University of Sheffield, 24 April-30 May 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact There was a five weeks visit by the MUCA team of Early Career Researchers from Ethiopia, Uganda and Nigeria to Sheffield. This was to provide them with the opportunity to focus on co-writing, sharing findings, listening to targeted lectures and get support from the U of Sheffield team.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description A Workshop for an edited book on urban Ethiopia 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact A workshop was conducted in Addis Ababa from 20-21 July 2023 for the contributing authors of an edited book on urban Ethiopia. The objective of the edited book is to share the research outputs of the research project, and to disseminate the research findings to continental and international audiences. The workshop brought together participants mainly from the area of academic and research institutions in Ethiopia and Europe.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact The researchers of the project participated and contributed to the programme of the European Conference on African Studies (ECAS), which took place from 31 May-3 June 2023 at the University of Cologne in Germany. The conference aimed to explore Africa's critical engagements with the past, present, and future of Africa's global entanglements. Researchers of the MUCA project hosted a panel, and presented six papers to a large audience.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.ecasconference.org/2023/
 
Description Experience Sharing Visit for officials and technical staff of the Addis Ababa City Administration to Kampala City 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact An experience sharing visit was organized for Addis Ababa City Administration officials and technical staff to visit Kampala City from 25 February-1 March 2024. The objective of the experience sharing visit was for the officials and technical staff of the Addis Ababa City Administration to share experience with their Kampala City counterparts in the area of urban management focusing on peacebuilding, conflict management, migration, and more. The main highlights of the visit included meetings with key representatives of the Office of the Mayor of Kampala City and the Urban Lab at Makerere University.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description Expert Group Meeting 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The Expert meeting interrogates three categories of migration induced/influenced conflicts across the country. In Nigeria, migration and urban dynamics have important implications for local political economy and peace outcomes, and if not adequately addressed, the interface of migration, urbanization and conflict can pose a serious threat to national development efforts. The Expert group meeting seeks to provide a platform for experts and practitioners to discuss the influence and impact of migration and conflict on urban and national development, share best practices and co-design approaches for envisioning and implementing peaceful urban futures in Nigeria. Participants are drawn from academia, civil society, policy and international development. The meeting include keynote speeches from Prof Isaac Olawale Albert - pioneer Director of Institute for Peace and Security Studies and James Barnett, a journalist and conflict researcher with the Hudson Institute. The keynote speakers have extensive experience engaging with peace and conflict studies from research, ethnographic and policy contexts. The panel discussion on understanding migration, peace and conflict mitigation will have discussants drawn from relevant local and international development agencies that have been engaging in migration, peace and security research, practice and advocacy. They include Mr Victor Lutenco -Lagos head of International Organisation for Migration, Dr Chris Kwaja, Country Director of United States Institute for Peace and Dr Joseph Ochogwu, the Director General of the Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution. Furthermore, there was interactive sessions in which participants engaged in discussing their work and developing strategies for addressing peculiarities of pertinent Nigerian violence and conflict issues, especially at the city scale.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description Methodology workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact A Methodology Workshop was conducted on 15 and 16 March 2021 (for half days) in order to discuss key issues of the cities of focus for the study, research methodology and other relevant matters of the project. The workshop was conducted virtually and convened more than fifteen participants across collaborating universities.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://ipss-addis.org/a-virtual-workshop-on-the-migration-urbanization-and-conflict-in-africa-muca-...
 
Description National Stakeholders Workshop in Nigeria 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The National Workshop in Nigeria was held on 23 September 2021 at the University of Lagos with over 100 participants. The workshop was available for participants to attend both virtually and in person. Participants were drawn from federal and state government agencies including:
• The Federal Ministry of Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs;
• National Emergency Management Agency, Lagos;
• Plateau and Kogi State Ministries of Physical Planning and Urban Development, Lagos;
• State Urban Renewal Agency and Office of the Public Defender;
• Local and international NGOs including Plateau Peacebuilding Agency, Institute of Migration, and West African Network for Peacebuilding;
• Social mobilization groups including the Federation of Informal Workers Organizations of Nigerian and the Nigerian Slum/Informal Residents Federation.
The workshop also drew academics from various fields including inter alia gender studies, political science, sociology, geography and urban planning.
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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description National Stakeholders Workshop in Uganda 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The National Stakeholders Workshop in Uganda was held on 10 September 2021 at the College of Computing and Information Sciences Conference Room at Makerere University. The workshop convened thirty three participants from across different spheres including inter alia research and academia, civil society, representatives of urban local governments, national ministries, departments and agencies. The objectives of the workshop were to:
1. Create awareness and visibility of the project to key stakeholders in the field of migration, urbanization and conflict in Africa;
2. Foster effective and interdisciplinary interactions among researchers, practitioners, and policymakers;
3. Empower young research scholars and students to present their research ideas and concepts to a wider audience and receive feedback;
4. Foster effective and interdisciplinary interactions among researchers, practitioners, and policymakers.
The welcoming remarks for the workshop was offered by the Principal Investigator, Dr. Fana Gebresenbet (PhD), and officially opened by Associate Professor Sarah Ssali from Makerere University who is also Director of the ARUA Centre of Excellence for Notion of Identities, and member of the Advisory Board for the project. A challenge faced for implementing this activity was in identifying a suitable date and time that would accommodate participants spread out across different geographical locations and time zones. This challenge was mitigated by selecting a schedule that would accommodate a good number of the expected participants, and by making the workshop available for participants to attend virtually and in person.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description National Stakeholders' Workshop in Ethiopia 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The National Stakeholders Workshop for the project was successfully conducted on 17 January 2022 at the Institute for Peace and Security Studies, Addis Ababa University in Addis Ababa. The workshop convened key stakeholders of the project representing diverse institutions including federal, regional and local government offices, non-governmental organizations and academic and research institutions located in the three cities (Addis Ababa, Hawassa and Jigjiga) under study in Ethiopia.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://ipss-addis.org/event/national-stakeholders-workshop-migration-urbanisation-conflict-in-afric...
 
Description Presentation of MUCA research to Sheffield Urban Institute, Tom Goodfellow and Lindsay Sawyer, 31 March 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact This was the first presentation of the project outside the team. It was aimed at increasing awareness about the project, and perhaps exploring collaborations with similar research initiatives. The project was received as important, and timely.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Public talk by Shuaib Lwasa and Taibat Lawanson 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact The two professors from University of Makerere (Uganda) and University of Lagos (Nigeria) gave lectures to students and faculty of U of Sheffield, as well as the MUCA research team. This helped in igniting a critical reflection on urbanisation and urban sociology in Africa.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Research Dissemination and Engagement 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This was a courtesy call to explore issues and potential areas of collaboration or partnership as well as discuss shared interests, exchange insights, and explore potential avenues for cooperation and collaboration in future activities and fundings
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description Research Dissemination/Capacity Building Workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact The Research Dissemination/Capacity Building Workshop for the Migration, Urbanization, and Conflict in Africa: Towards Peaceful Urban Futures (MUCA) initiative took place at the Crispan Hotel and Suites in Jos, Plateau, Nigeria. This significant event assembled a varied assembly of experts and stakeholders to meticulously validate and enhance the data and insights derived from extensive research that explored the intricate relationships between migration, urbanization, and conflict within diverse African cities. The workshop is Jos. one of the Nigerian cities. The workshop brought together different ethnic groups to talk about their differences and means of attaining a peaceful urban futures. The Workshop sparked questions and discussions on why none of the panel report submitted have been implemented as well as prosecution of arrested terrorist groups causing violence in the state
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Research Dissemination/Stakeholder Engagement 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact The workshop analyzed the findings from the research in the Lagos study locations to extract meaningful lessons and understand their implications for specific city contexts. It further delved into a broader perspective, exploring the implications of the MUCA findings for national security and conflict management in the context of migration to urban centres in Lagos. This activity has increased the commitment of participants towards peaceful urban futures
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Research Dissemination/Stakeholder Engagement 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact The workshop yielded valuable insights into the complex relationships between migration, urbanization, and conflict in African cities, which can exacerbate social tensions and conflict. The workshop further identified that many migrants are often marginalized and excluded from social, economic, and political opportunities in urban areas, making them more vulnerable to conflict and violence. Finally,
effective governance, inclusive policies, and investments in social infrastructure are crucial to mitigate the negative impacts of urbanization and migration and promote peaceful urban coexistence.



1. Conflicts are using resource based (resource exploitation)

2. Crimes and social vices can arise from uncontrolled urbanization.

3. Proper compensation management is required to mitigate conflict.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Research presentation by Early Career Researchers to Sheffield Migration Research Group, University of Sheffield, 18 May 2023 
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 The activity involved the five early career researchers recruited under the project to present their work to the community at Sheffield University. While this gave the Sheffield students and staff the opportunity to learn new insights and perspectives, the early career researchers also used the opportunity to grasp new insights and further refine their work.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Stakeholder Engagement 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact The workshop seeks to provide a platform for researchers and public sector officials to discuss challenges, share best practices and understand the influence and impact of migration and everyday violence in our quest for peaceful urban futures in African cities. Participants are drawn from academia, civil society, policy and state security service sectors.
The meeting include presentations from Dr. Edmund Chinem Nwokaeze- an expert of urban security and governance and Dr. Abdulkadir Muhammed Yahaya whose studies have been critical on urban growth and development. The presentation revolves around urban governance security challenges and managing urban growth towards peaceful urban futures. The panel discussion on understanding migration, peace and everyday violence mitigation had discussants drawn from relevant local government, stakeholders and international non governmental agencies that have been engaging in migration, peace and security research, practice and advocacy. They include Ms Hafisa NAMULI - Local Government, Kampala, Uganda, Dr. (Mrs.) Grace Chigala Ajaegbo (Legal Services Department, Rivers State House of Assembly), Dr. Austin Agugua (Human Rights Research and Education Centre (HURREC) and Mr. Eugene Osigwe (Institute of Voluntary Sector Management)
Furthermore, there was interactive sessions in which participants were grouped by their area of expertise /affiliations to engage in discussing and developing strategies for addressing peculiarities of pertinent African violence and conflict issues, especially at the city scale.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description Stakeholders' Workshop for the study conducted on Addis Ababa City in Ethiopia 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A Stakeholders' Workshop was organized for the study conducted on Addis Ababa City in Ethiopia from 22-23 January 2024 in Bishoftu, Ethiopia. The workshop targeted stakeholders from Addis Ababa including government offices, civil society organizations, and academic and research institutions. The objective of the workshop was to receive critical feedback from the aforementioned stakeholders, and share the research findings as input for an improved management of Addis Ababa City and as contribution to future policy making.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description Stakeholders' Workshop for the study conducted on Jigjiga City in Ethiopia 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Stakeholders' Workshop was organized for the study conducted on Jigjiga City in Ethiopia from 11-12 January 2024 in Dire Dawa. The workshop targeted stakeholders from Jigjiga City including government offices, civil society organizations, and academic and research institutions. The objective of the workshop was to receive a critical feedback from the aforementioned stakeholders, and share the research findings as input for an improved management of Jigjiga City, and as contribution to future policy making.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description Town and Gown Engagement 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The Workshop is intended to foster community engagement and collaboration amongst Inter-sector collaboration, strengthened intergroup communication/relations, review of peace-building approaches and fostering an understanding for a synergy among hitherto existing parallel social mechanisms towards peaceful urban futures.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description Workshop for project researchers 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact A general workshop was organized for the project researchers from Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia), University of Lagos (Nigeria), Makerere University (Uganda) and the University of Sheffield (UK) in the UK from 25-29 April 2023. The workshop was followed by a Writing Workshop for all of the post-doctoral researchers from the three countries at the University of Sheffield which lasted end of May 2023.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://ipss-addis.org/ipss-at-the-muca-research-project-workshop/
 
Description Workshop for project researchers. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact A workshop was organized in Addis Ababa from 13-16 September 2022, which convened the project teams from Uganda, Nigeria, United Kingdom and Ethiopia. The project team used this four days intensive workshop to share the results of the fieldwork conducted in the nine cities under study, have in-depth discussions regarding work packages and cross-cutting themes, and come up with a publication plan for project outputs.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Workshop with policy audience 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Data collection was reasonably completed at end of December 2022 in all study areas. In the meeting we held in mid-September 2022, we discussed and listed joint and solo-publications. However, we postponed the stakeholder engagements to the second major workshop we plan and are working towards for end of April 2023. By then, the plan is to have enough comparable policy lessons across city/country cases. This would then help us to distill the major themes and arguments to develop into policy briefs, based on which we will engage policy makers, practitioners and CSOs in coming months.
The Engagement Activity we want to report here is related to our engagement in a workshop the Heinrich Boll foundation (Horn of Africa Office) organized with the intention of establishing "a network of researchers, practitioners and interested persons to address displacement in urban settings in Africa."
The online workshop was held under the theme "Urban Displacement" on 8 December 2022. Three of the six policy oriented presentations were made by MUCA researchers to the group of policy maker, CSO and practitioners:
• Edegilign Hailu (Ethiopia): on 'Exploring the dynamics of internal migration and urban conflicts in Ethiopia';
• Paul Mukwaya (Uganda): on 'Conflict, Displacement and Labour Migration in Urban Africa: Lessons and Policy Implications from Nigeria, Uganda and Ethiopia'; and
• Taibat Lawanson (Nigeria) on 'Everyone in Lagos is insecure! Land and urban access in an African Megacity.

The policy recommendations we want to make are refined thanks to inputs from the audience. Moreover, the engagement activity further increased the appetite to engage on the planned co-production of a compendium bringing together policy relevant findings in the second half of 2023.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022