About the East Africa Learning Hub
The East Africa Learning Hub is jointly founded by TAABCO, a research and development consultancy based in Nairobi, Kenya, and the Joint Learnining Initiative (JLI). JLI is a global network of researchers, practitioners, and local faith actors, who share a commitment to advancing evidence on the roles and contributions of local faith actors in humanitarian and development action
The idea
Since its inception in 2012, JLI has founded numerous global Learning Hubs, convening a transdisciplinary collective of actors from around the world, to address evidence gaps on issues of common interest – such as Gender Based Violence, Ending Violence Against Children, Refugees and Forced Migration, and Anti-Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery
In 2020, JLI made a strategic decision to focus its efforts on challenging the unequal power dynamics that we see manifesting in the way evidence is used and created globally. JLI’s Fair & Equitable Initiative is the organisation’s response to these power imbalances in the humanitarian and development sector. The Initiative seeks to shift power, resources and leadership to local, national, and regional levels, by creating and support new Regional Learning Hubs.
Regional Hubs would be transdisciplinary, horizontal learning communities, allowing for local, national, and regional actors to define and pursue their own evidence agendas. It is on this backdrop that the East Africa Learning HUB was birthed.
To establish a self-sustaining, locally-rooted, and regionally-led East Africa Learning Hub on Governance, Peacebuilding, and Local Faith Actors. The East Africa Joint Learning Hub would be a transdisciplinary collective learning space where researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and local faith actors in the region could address research gaps in the region, conduct original research, as well as share best practice and evidence from their experiences. It is to define and pursue its own evidence agenda, with support from the Joint Learning Initiative on Faith & Local Communities (JLI) and TAABCO.
The Hub will focus on the broad themes of Governance, Peacebuilding, and Local Faith Actors. However, this is subject to change, depending on the needs, preferences and priorities of the Regional Hub members.
To begin with, the East Africa Joint Learning Hub engages with individuals, organisations and communities from the following East African countries: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania
In the near future, the Hub will look to engage with the broader East Africa Region, including Burundi, Ethiopia, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan and Somalia.
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