Discussion of research uptake in Migrating out of Poverty programme for presentation to professional journalists

1. Research Uptake
Angela Haynes
Research Uptake Manager

2. What is research uptake?
• DFID terminology
• More than: communication/ Engagement with
‘audiences’ / ‘stakeholders’ / ‘targets’
• Get research off the shelf and into use
• Begin at the start of the research
• Continue throughout and beyond the life of
the research project
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3. Global Communications Team 2014
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L-R: Wendy Landau (ACMS), Ansar Anas (RMMRU), Grace Baey (ARI),
Angela Haynes (Sussex), Collins Yeboah (CMS)
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4. Main Audiences
• policy makers
• NGOs, migrant organisations & think tanks:
• media
• Researchers outside of the consortium
• NEW: private sector
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5. Which policy makers?
• Intergovernmental / Multilateral – EU, UNDP,
UNDESA, ILO
• Regional – economic communities e.g.
ECOWAS, SADC; blocs e.g. AU
• Local/ municipal government
• development donor community – DFID, SDC,
• National governments in Africa and Asia
• Northern governments e.g. Sweden, UK
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6. Which policy themes? Phase I
• Focus issues – construction and domestic
workers; rural-urban migration/urbanisation;
gender and migration
• Mainstreaming migration into national
development strategies
• Post-2015 development framework
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7. Which policy themes? Phase II
• Remittances and youth aspirations
• Counterfactuals – what would have happened
if no migration had occurred
• Migration industry
• Migration policy
• Host communities’ perspectives
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8. Which policy fora?
• Global Forum on Migration and Development
(GFMD)
• Consultations and roundtables – European
Commission expert meeting on integrating
migration into development strategies and the
post-2015 agenda
• Organise conferences – urbanisation in Africa
conference (Nov 2012); planned gender
conference Jun 2015
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9. Communications Outputs
• Policy briefs – rural-urban migration in Ghana; Indonesian
domestic workers in Singapore;
• Film on domestic workers, “Ceria”
http://facebook.com/readingacrossworlds
• Photographs -
http://migratingoutofpoverty.dfid.gov.uk/newsandevents/1
8december/picturegallery2
• Slideshow
http://migratingoutofpoverty.dfid.gov.uk/newsandevents/1
8december/picturegallery
• Website http://www.migratingoutofpoverty.org
• Posters
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10. Activities
• Newsletter Internal Migration Eye (IMigE)
• Social media – tweets & blogs
• UN Global Forum on Migration and Development
(GFMD) – active participation, 2014 stall
• Meetings with national and local govt
• Training – DFID, FCO Migration Directorate
• EU: consultations re new migration policy
• UN: discussions with UNITAR
• Collaboration with Diaspora and migration NGOs
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11. Challenges
• Relevant terminology – South-south v regional
• Less policy focus on internal migration
• Use of jargon, caveats, difficult language,
complexity
• Cross-government coherence
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12. Engagement with media
• TRAINING – migration and development;
• BRIEFINGS and PRESS CONFERENCES
• SHARE Migrating out of Poverty outputs – please
ensure that you and colleagues are on Sonia and
Collins’s mailing lists
• TELL our audiences about your documentaries,
photos, articles and broadcasts – tweet links to
your reports
• FOLLOW US: @migrationrpc
• ANY OTHER IDEAS?
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