Day 2-The Burden on Children: The Cost of Insufficient Post-Conflict Services and Pathways Forward

— Thank you for introduction and glad to be here and hope have enjoyed last few days

• Agenda to persuade you to say yes to invitation of being advocate for those most vulnerable

— Despite in humanitarian sector have a lot of optimism and hope, and where it comes from and methodologies we used with clients and beneficiaries with practice

• Hope to prove this will be rewarding and creative challenge to experience

— This was my journey through Uganda to South Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

• Uganda as largest refugee host nation, from south Sudan and Burundi

— Moved from tarmac roads, to nile river and arid roads to speak with people who lived experience every single day

— Spoke with communities in different settlements, and anecdote of elder who said that there has been dangerous fights in local clinics as people assume refugee children were being favored than in local community

• More than just anecdote about poor service, but deeper issue and what future looked like for them

— Listed many things:

• Safe place for children to grow, going back home for better life, and making future possible
• Desired feature and school for children for 5-11 with maths and literacy and decided to fund true remembrance for date

— Job to make this future possible, and want to talk about educational background

• Non-linear journey of my background foundation for studio

— Master’s in Material Futures, and have small independent studio called Honest Design studio and human-security challenges for women and children in post-conflict settings

— Methodology for redemptive design to redeem people, places, and time

— Quick facts on crisis in Uganda

• Uganda is Africa’s largest refugee host nation, with 1.5 million refugees and ones on screen and largest children crisis zone

— Uganda very progressive and has instituted a 70-30 rule

• Dedicated revenue allocated for refugee host communities with 30% for local host communities and 70% for refugees
• Good on paper, but hadchronic underlying limits with less support over years

— In conversation we had, that work was more than about fixing the service and chronic issue and solving type of problem with redemptive model

• Inadequate service comes from outdated systems that perpetuate risk

— For us, perfect model of redemptive design

• Redemption defined as: Buy back something or restore to rightful place, and stories that focus on overcoming adversity, transformation to renewal
  • Potential for positive change and constructive future and action

— Restore what conflict and disaster took from children from time [past, present, future]

— Approach embedded in practices and methodology and compliment best strategy for sustainable development features and approach for top-down work and structurally horizontal and policy and legislation enforce solution to standardize

• Work done today will benefit future generations down the line
• Using time as primary tool

— Cultural system set foundations for humanitarian design work, and see on right. Social system between child, family, ethnic base community

• Focus on fairness, justice, dignity

— Humanitarian deficit and limited input in decision making and top-down control for external system

• Receiving better services for tension and resentment and refugees seen as being given better services at expense of host community

— External system of NGOs and office of Prime Minister, and distribution of resources and host community and refugees

• NGO rely on international funding, and when it ends they downsize and services diminish and no contingency plan
  • Limited local mobilization for resources, and doesn’t encourage self-reliance or independence

— How do we engage in redemptive work?

• Engage at every layer, beginning with research

— Begin at the end from future to feature, where redemption begins of optimal future

• As rest of refugee community and host community and telling about optimum futures

— Strategic points and alliance with system

— Time as tool that we use, and methods to engage with clients and beneficiaries

• Time as key— History Mapping, Futures Mapping, and Facilitator of Hope, using ABC model

— Desk work and UK in Uganda, and assessment for what is going on and situation on the ground

• Community leaders in languages and refugee community and host community and other

— Data points through news assessments and engaging deep understanding with future mapping and strategic responses and opportunity

• Asking about experience in community in needs assessment and asking questions at the end
  • Tribalism, Alcoholism, Drug Use
• History mapping and tribalism and some tibes that come from South Sudan as tribal conflict carrying over to settlement
  • Community cohesion was needed

— Mapping out where tribes came from and history and future scenario approach, extrapolated features 10-15 years in advance and type of technology embedded in community and created futures to plan what it could look like

 

— Beginning of talk to think about most vulnerable choice in complex system we work on, as most don’t work in it and redemptive design tools and think from future to another

• Tools to have in arsenal and say yes to vulnerable voices ins system

— Second was to be where people were and traveled seven days on road for 12-hours to speak to one person and hear their experiences

• Protocol of going through office of PM and speaking to people

— Travel to hear them and become facilitator of hope and be able to design these features

• Hard for people to dream of better things— optimism is bare minimum and develop sustainable futures and facilitator of hope

— Hope as very proactive. One things is to exercise critical reflexivity

• Knowing power balance between researcher and refugee status with different legal rights. Real-fear of losing refugee status in real-time, and positionality is important

— Local languages and safe spaces to speak about experience

— Any questions, let me know, and I’m listening

Questions

1. How did ‘you begin at end’? What does it look like in practice?
   1. We develop sustainable futures and ways that we have done it with community, and building schools as was future that was wanted and focus groups shared more
   2. Research in studio and methodologies like Oxford methodology and history mapping and begin in future and tools to work towards that future
   3. From conversations about what future is [leveraging reports from U.N.] collaborate what looks like and design from method and methods in studio
2. How did you engage donors with futures of communities?
   1. Have to realize systems are people, and people built it and conversations with humanity and donors of organization with dinner in West Country of UK and what to do with money
      1. Ask questions, and people will tell you what they want. Facilitating hope with donors
      2. Old enough and interested in innovation — and asking what future looks for you
   2. Built conversation through donor dinners and how we spoke to nominal ring of power
      1. NGOs and Prime Minister and how to engage with them and were culturally sensitive to office of prime minister
         1. As woman, couldn’t be favored to speak, and mindful of places you work and engage with every layer and ask right questions and have right data to move forward
      2. Shared phase one of project and building out the built environment for borders of play and build the playgrounds where people play is how you build sims world and futures for children served
3. Enough multilateral organizations willing to fund work, and futures and is there conflict between people working to help and futures funders want?
   1. Job to ask right questions so you can find parallels between futures and seed of ABC model to bridge futures
   2. Everyone has one goal to take care of most vulnerable children in the world
      1. Always a bridge or road, and have to be strategist to find it
         1. Donors felt comfortable with model of org, as it had been done for years and helping them and reinforce with conversation