Centering the expertise of refugees to improve policy, programs, and practice

Share the Platform is a group of practitioners and scholars from refugee and non-refugee backgrounds who call upon their refugee colleagues to deliver their expertise on the unique needs and experiences of refugee populations in a wide variety of fields.

We support and train institutions and people from refugee backgrounds to move towards full partnerships to create meaningful change in program design, policy making, and action.

We advocate for experts from non-refugee backgrounds to take meaningful steps to “share the platform” with fellow academics, policy-makers, program managers, and other colleagues from refugee backgrounds.

SHARE THE PLATFORM SYMPOSIUM:

Conversations from the Refugee and Forced Migration Field

Our Inaugural event was a great success! We would like to thank everyone who joined us. It was such a productive conversation and we came away with many new ideas about how to put our vision forward. We also hope these conversations will help spur professionals and organizations to better value the expertise of refugees, and share the platform with their refugee colleagues. Have a look below!

We believe that people from refugee backgrounds have a role in shaping the societies that we all live in.

Share the Platform is a network of experts from refugee and non-refugee backgrounds who work as partners to shape forced displacement policies and programs.

There are many opportunities for co-creating knowledge with your professional colleagues from refugee backgrounds. You could:

• Co-author a paper with a colleague from a refugee background

• Invite panelists from refugee backgrounds as professionals, not to share a crisis story

• Appoint board members who are from refugee backgrounds 

• Ask expert witnesses from refugee backgrounds to prepare reports on legal cases

• Collaborate with journalists from refugee backgrounds, instead of limiting refugee participants to subject matter

• Actively engage people from refugee backgrounds for their experiential expertise as recipients of refugee policy and practice 

Take the Pledge!

Share the Platform actively calls upon experts from refugee and non refugee backgrounds to work in partnership and deliver their expertise on the unique needs and experiences of refugee populations in a wide variety of fields.

• Implement and expand awareness about the [professional capacities of people from refugee backgrounds]

• Adopt best practices in fostering partnerships with professionals from refugee backgrounds

ACTIVITIES

• Advocacy 

• Trainings 

• Webinars

• Lobbying 

• Conferences