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Partnership

Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network member

October 11, 2021
RDI UREF Admin

On Monday, October 11, 2021, RDI was honored to be formally inducted as an APRRN member. Established in November 2008, the Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network (APRRN) is a network of over 200 civil society organizations and individuals covering 25 countries in the Asia Pacific region and beyond.1 APRRN members are diverse, comprising service providers, human rights advocacy groups, research institutions, faith-based organizations, lawyers and law firms providing pro-bono legal aid, refugee community-based organizations (CBOs), and refugees themselves. APRRN aims to advance the rights of refugees and other people in need of protection in the Asia Pacific region. APRRN envisions…

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Partnership

New RDI Partner Skilled Migrant and Refugee Technicians

February 1, 2021
RDI UREF Admin

Resilience Development Initiative and Skill Migrant and Refugee Technicians (SMART) had agreed to enter Collaboration on February 1, 2021. SMART a non-profit organization, established by expert refugees in Indonesia. The mission is to use technology and the internet to empower the refugee community and serve people and organizations that want to grow up fast. SMART’s abilities and experience approve that migration with all its difficulties and limitations has failed to keep us from progress and moving forward. The collaboration is underlined by the aims to increase awareness, knowledge-base, public discourse of urban refugees, and the empowerment of refugees through the use…

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Reportase

APRRN Short Course on Refugee Rights and Advocacy

December 18, 2020
RDI UREF Admin

As a person who has just been exposed to or is involved in refugee issues, Jean Sonia considers herself fortunate to join the APRRN Short Course on Refugee Rights and Advocacy held from 24 November to 18 December 2020. This online course has helped her delve deeper into refugee issues through lectures, in-depth sessions with practitioners, case studies with small group works, and an individual task on chosen advocacy issues. She gained much new knowledge such as refugee rights, policy advocacy, elements of advocacy planning, gender and intersectionality in refugee advocacy and forced migration issues. This course also allowed her…

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Grant Funding

Networking Grant by Royal Academy Engineering

October 10, 2020
RDI UREF Admin

Building a community of practice on urban refugee issues for a better and more inclusive urban governance Resilience Development Initiative is honored to receive a networking grant from Royal Academy Engineering (RAEng) for the project “Building a Community of Practice on Urban Refugee Issues for a Better and more Inclusive Urban Governance”. Royal Academy of Engineering is a charity that harnesses the power of engineering to build a sustainable society and an inclusive economy that works for everyone.  The objective of this project is to build a community of practice (CoP), or a network of researchers, practitioners, and observers of…

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Grant Funding

Lessons Learned from Indonesian Cities

June 28, 2020
RDI UREF Admin

Resilience Development Initiative Urban Refugees Research Group is honored to be granted a research grant by Sasakawa Peace Foundation. Sasakawa Peace Foundation was established on September 1, 1986 in Japan. Sasakawa Peace Foundation is committed to responding to the changes in the environment, contributing to the sound and sustainable development of human society, and building a new governance system for human society by promoting research activities, making policy recommendations, and supporting international cooperation and exchange projects. This research grant has marked the second grant for Resilience Development Initiative Urban Refugees Research Group to sustain the research on urban refugees following…

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Partnership

New RDI Partner Global Alliance for Urban Crises

December 13, 2019
RDI UREF Admin

As a think tank focusing on issues relating to sustainable development and resilience studies, RDI always strives to conduct research with the primary objective to make people become more resilient. Coming from that commitment, RDI has decided to form a partnership through membership with Global Alliance for Urban Crises (GAUC). GAUC primarily commits to work together to enable urban communities, in particular, those most at risk, to prepare for, cope with and recover more quickly from the effects of humanitarian crises, including forced displacement, natural disasters, and/or armed conflicts. Therefore, we are both looking forward to advocating two principles, which…

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Conference

55th ISOCARP World Planning Congress

September 13, 2019
RDI UREF Admin

Akino Tahir and Risye Dwiyani represented Resilience Development Initiative Urban Refugees Research group to deliver a paper presentation entitled, “Secondary Cities and Forced Migration: Accommodating Refugees and Asylum Seeker in Indonesia” in 55th ISOCARP World Planning Congress 2019 in Bogor, Indonesia. The International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP) was founded in 1965 and is a global network of city and regional planners. ISOCARP one of the main activities is organizing World Congress focuses on a planning theme of foremost international interest in urban planning. Akino Tahir and Risye Dwiyani presented the capacity exploration of secondary cities in Indonesia…

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Grant Funding

Research Grant by Sasakawa Peace Foundation

July 28, 2019
RDI UREF Admin

Resilience Development Initiative Urban Refugees Research Group is honored to be granted a research grant by Sasakawa Peace Foundation. Sasakawa Peace Foundation was established on September 1, 1986 in Japan. Sasakawa Peace Foundation is committed to responding to the changes in the environment, contributing to the sound and sustainable development of human society, and building a new governance system for human society by promoting research activities, making policy recommendations, and supporting international cooperation and exchange projects.

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Fieldwork

Field Visit of Urban Refugee Team

February 9, 2019
RDI UREF Admin

On the 8th and 9th of February 2019, the Urban Refugees team from RDI conducted a follow up interview with several refugees in Bogor and Jakarta. A previous visit was conducted the week prior to connect with some of the refugees, and this follow up visit was conducted to gather in-depth data regarding the theme: “The meaning of “Places” for refugee’s identity”. The team consisted of Junior RDI researcher Rizkita Mardea Nurdiandra and RDI intern Muhammad Anugrah Saputra. The team first visited the refugee community in Bogor and interviewed three youth refugees in the community. They told stories of their…

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RDI Urban Refugee Research Group (RDI UREF) is part of the Resilience Development Initiative, a think tank focusing on resilience and sustainable development. RDI UREF aims to increase awareness, knowledge-base, and public discourse on the impact of international forced displacement and how it can contribute to urban development.

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