Taking stock of the regional mixed movement trends, blindspots and future scenarios
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Overview and Objectives
Sudan is rapidly approaching the 600-day mark since the outbreak of war on April 15, 2023, with no end to the fighting in sight. With more than 2.3 million displaced as of August 2024 and border areas in Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, Libya and South Sudan unable to meet the full scale of humanitarian needs, and with an increasing number of displaced Sudanese and third-counry nationals planning onward movements to locations farther afield that offer better opportunities to provide for their livelihoods, it is crucial that migration and displacement stakeholders and experts convene to reflect on the full regional scale of this displacement crisis and discuss joined-up policy and programming priorities.
The Mixed Migration Centre (MMC), with the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) proposes to convene a two-day, high-level conference in Nairobi to:
- Bring together the state-of-the-art empirical data and research on the mixed movement consequences of the Sudan war;
- Examine the challenges for (international) protection of Sudanese and third-country nationals within Sudan and the wider region, including existing national and regional policy responses;
- Analyze cross-cutting themes related to the gendered dimensions of this conflict and the impacts of food insecurity and looming starvation as a stress multiplier;
- Identify blind spots for research, policy and programming and explore future scenarios for onward movement and their implications for humanitarian programming and policy.
Timeline
| Launch of Call for Participants | 18 September |
| Deadline to Apply | 21 October |
| Notification of Participation | 28 October |
| Deadline to Submit Policy/Programming Notes | 25 November |
| Conference | 3-4 December |