The document outlines the concept of research uptake as a continuous process that involves engaging stakeholders and ensuring research is applied effectively. It identifies key audiences including policymakers, NGOs, and the media, while also highlighting specific policy themes and fora for discussions on migration and development. Challenges related to terminology and engagement with the media are discussed, along with various communication outputs and activities planned to enhance the uptake of research findings.

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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