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Investing in people, by investing in higher education and skills
in Africa - “Supporting refugees”
Barbara Moser-Mercer
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HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE - EDUCATION
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Inclusive & equitable quality HE for sustainable
development
Fragility, conflict, low
resource, language &
culture
Transformative pedagogy, adaptive
technology, 21st century
skills
Indigenous knowledge,
design solutions, empowered
learners, life & livelihood skills
BUILDING BACK BETTER FOR
SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
THE CHANGE WE WANT TO SEE
THE PROBLEMS WE ENCOUNTER
THE SOLUTIONS WE IMPLEMENT
THE OUTCOMES WE WITNESS
THE IMPACT WE SEEK
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REFUGEE MANAGEMENT
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Connecting in
InZone@UniGE Learning Hubs
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PEDAGOGY
TECHNOLOGYSPACE
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Connecting in social spaces
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10INTEREST POWERED
INFRASTRUCTURETested digital solutions to provide reliable access to quality learning
Learner-centered support system to enhance the learning experience
Learner-driven solutions to address local challenges
Innocent N. Tshilombo
Gadget analysis Policy
Data Usage Modem
INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION
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PRODUCTION CENTERED
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Human RightsCourses in Kakuma Applied Human Rights Research Outputs
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• Advanced course
• One project per year defined by InZone
students in Kakuma (World café method)
• 15 students involved (Kakuma, KU, Unige)
supervised by InZone
• Needs analysis (surveys and research) by
InZone students and Unige staff in Kakuma
• Legal research by the three teams of
students and supervised by InZone
• Law Clinic methodology (UNIGE, Kenyatta)
• Introduction to
Human Rights
• Applied Human
Rights
• Children’s Rights
Introduction to
the Basics of
Children’s Rights
for Zone Leaders
and Elders
Encouraging Deeper Learning
Academically oriented
Recap
- Introductions help build
relationships
- Engage students with open
questions
- Maintain interest with mixed
media
- Deepen learning with
conversation
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ToC=Resilient communities
Local knowledge production
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16SHARED PURPOSE
Openly networked 17
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Global Health at the Human-
Animal Ecosystem InterfaceMOOC UNIGE-Kakuma Research Projects Outputs
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• Research skills• Mapping• SMS Warning
App• Knowledge
Generation
Snake bite mapping
Malaria larvae Mapping
prevention
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19PEER SUPPORTED
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20LEARNING PATHWAYS
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21LEARNING PATHWAYS
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HIGHER EDUCATION IN
FRAGILE CONTEXTS
•HE’s civic engagement supports SDGs
•Refugee management –social start-ups
•University partnerships
•Enabling partnerships
LEARNING & RESEARCH
• Collaborative technology-enhanced skill acquisition in fragile contexts
• Community-centered research & indigenous knowledge production
• Research ethics
Building better communities
• Studentgovernment
• Student civic engagement
• Refugee empowerment
• Life & livelihood skills
• Resilient communities
THE CHANGE WE OBSERVE
UNIGE-GE Barbara Moser-Mercer, Director
Ian Newton, Executive Director
Djemila Carron, Senior Lecturer Human Rights & Humanitarian Law
Barbara Delahayes, Learning design/humanitarian interpreting
Emma Sebastiani, Learning design/humanitarian interpreting
Kerstin Lambert, Social-emotional learning/Applied Arts
Paul O’Keeffe, post-doctoral researcher Learning
Tobias Wehrli, Student management & Web
UNIGE-KAKJuvenal, Innocent, Grace, Peace, Arcade, Maryam, Ahmed, Mireille
UNIGE-DAD/SomaliaAbdirizak, Gulet, Ardo
UNIGE-AZROmran, Qusai, Moutasem, Kawkab
UNIGE-AMMNadeem, Eyad Princeton-Geneva
partnership fund
www.unige.ch/inzone
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