GIZ RISE Innovation Lab Refugee Inclusion by MDF ESA

1.1 Rapid assessment - Concept note devt

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Identify the issues, barriers, problems that refugees and stakeholders are facing in the areas of social protection, education and economic inclusion and identify ongoing initiatives that tackle these issues. Rapid assessment and analysis

Desk research

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Review existing docs, studies, mappings - see sources

Stakeholder and context mapping and consultations

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Identify and interview key actors in refugee landscape in 4 categories / roles. Methods: KIIs / FGDs. Online? In person?

A. Policy and regulatory

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National / local govt: RRS, AU, IGAD, other ministries

B. Service providers

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Govt, UN, (I)NGOs, Pvt sector: RRS, WUSC, IRC, UNHCR, ILO, GIZ (QEP)/ NIRAS,

C. Advocacy actors

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RLOs, CSOs incl Host Communities, Knowledge Inst.

D. Coordination and funding actors

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UN, national steering committees, development partners: EU, GIZ, AdB, WB, MCF, NL GOVT, other bilaterials / foundations (Hilton, Mastercard)

1.3 Develop prioritization criteria

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Develop a list of selection criteria to enable the prioritization of isuses identified in step 1.

1.4 Problem scope and selection

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Deepen the initially identified problems and make a first selection applying the selection criteria with stakeholders to agree and obtain first buy-in.

Technical

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Financial

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Social / Env / Impact

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Selection matrix devt, review, refinement

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Conduct virtual meeting with stakeholders to discuss, unpack, review and validate criteria

Design and facilitate 1st physical Pop Up workshop

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Conduct workshop around the identified problem themes, deepening them, getting buy in, action plan

Technical working group formation

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Develop simple ToR for working groups with deliverables (milestone), time frame and who will do what.

Progress tracking meetings

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Conduct virtual meetings with working group members to asses progress, identify issues, discuss follow up steps.

2.1 Co-create solutions - broad ideation

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Conduct workshop / meetings around the identified problems & solutions, deepening them, getting buy in, leading to solution working groups, action plan.

3.1 Solution development & features

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2.2 Solution co-creation & framing

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Detailed, co-created design of the selected solution(s), with action plan, milestones, budget

Technical solutions working group set up

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Develop simple ToR for solutions groups with deliverables (milestone), time frame and who will do what.

Ideation workshop(s)

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Conduct workshop / meetings around the identified problems & solutions, deepening them, getting buy in, action plan.

User panel feedback

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Obtaining feedback from users panels, RLOs and refine solutions where needed.

User testing

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Obtaining feedback from implementors. Refine solution with technical groups, conduct pre-tests, dry runs, mock runs...

3.2 Solution validation

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2nd Pop up physical workshop

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Workshop to share / validate / refine the solution with larger audience (tbd)

3. Share farming

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1. Refugee IDs

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To Dos for preparing frist popup

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