Urban Refugee Management
Session Summary
This session is expected to include topics on:
- The principles for urban response good practices;
- Re-imagining urban refugee management.
Moderator
Akino Tahir
Akino Tahir is a Senior Researcher at the Resilience Development Initiative. She received her doctoral degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. Previously, she worked with Save the Children International in Singapore. In 2017, she was a consultant and independent researcher for projects in relation to the topic of children and youth, gender and urban planning. Akino established RDI UREF in 2018 together with the other RDI UREF senior researchers and led the research on social integration of young refugees with local youth in Makassar in 2019.
Speakers
David Sanderson
David has 30 years of experience working across the world in development and emergencies. He worked for eight years for the NGO CARE International followed by eight years as Director of CENDEP, a center at Oxford Brookes University focusing on development and emergencies. Between 2013-14 David was a full-time Visiting Professor at Harvard University. David was appointed the Inaugural Judith Neilson Chair at the University of New South Wales, Sydney in 2016 where among other things he is Lead for the Institute for Global Development. David has been a member of several NGO boards and committees, including CARE International, Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and the Humanitarian Innovation Fund (HIF). David is author of the 2019 ODI/ALNAP Urban Humanitarian Response Good Practice Review.
Mouaz Al-Takrouri
Mouaz is a Protection Officer (Community-based) – UNHCR Indonesia. Mouaz joined UNHCR in 2010. Previously worked for other UN agencies, national and international non-governmental organizations, mainly in human rights, refugee protection, and community engagement. Mouaz holds a master’s degree in Human Rights and Democratization and a bachelor’s degree in political sciences.
Gading Gumilang Putra
Gading is the National Information Advocacy Officer of Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) Indonesia. Gading has joined JRS Indonesia since 2014 in the project of JRS Bogor and JRS Jakarta in providing friendship, service, and advocacy including legal assistance to urban refugees. Gading graduated from Faculty of Law in Gadjah Mada University with specialization in International Law Studies in 2013. Gading has also researched about the legality of the detention process in Indonesia in the perspective of international law (2013), and the handling of Syrian Refugees in legal and political perspective (2012).
Dr. Enny Soeprapto
Dr. Enny Soeprapto is one of Indonesia’s leading scholars of international refugee law. He was member of Ethics Council in National Commission Against Violence against Women until 2020. He is also an activist in the promotion and development of refugee law and a human rights defender. His study focused on international law with specialization in refugee law. He has published 180 writings relating to refugees, internally displaced persons (IDPs), human rights, gross violations of human rights, international relations, etc. He worked as a protection officer in UNHCR in Geneva from 1974 until 1978.