GCRF Development Award: Social protection and inclusive peace in the Middle East and North Africa Region: Towards a welfare centred politics

这项建议是围绕AHRC发展奖号召的四项核心原则组织的，这四项原则是在低收入和中等收入国家(LMIC)发展公平和可持续的伙伴关系，支持LMIC的能力发展，发展影响的途径和加强跨学科的工作。为此，我们将开展一项方案：(A)就我们网络的研究议程和方法，与现有的和新的国际和当地专家、伙伴和从业人员进行战略协商；(B)面对面和在线知识分享和共同设计活动，以加强我们的网络和伙伴关系。这一工作方案将直接构成我们最后阶段“网络+”建议的框架，并加强我们的网络+“枢纽”--中东和北非区域网络(www.menasp.com)--的基础，以便在受冲突影响的国家建立可持续、跨区域和公平的伙伴关系。这样做，这一发展奖将直接支持我们入围的大纲提案的核心目标和范围，该提案的战略愿景是，通过倡导转向以福利为中心的社会政策观点，在中东和北非地区预防冲突的关键分析和政策做法方面实现范式转变。后者需要重点关注社会保护政策的治理和影响，以应对导致中东和北非国家公民骚乱和冲突的最被忽视但又最紧迫的驱动因素。核心活动将是一个为期五天的以实践为基础的规划研讨会，由三个相互关联的流程组成，将于2020年2月在英国文化协会阿联酋办事处的支持下在迪拜举行。研讨会将由一名当地协调员管理。这三项工作将是：(1)讲习班第1期(1天)：在冲突情况下的保护和包容--管理小组和合作伙伴将在项目范围内审议保护和包容的意义。他们将制定一项协议，长期指导网络的工作。该方案还将在培训影片中进行解释，该影片也将作为该项目的一部分制作。(2)讲习班流2(2天)：就研究目标和网络方法进行协商--这一流的目的将是与主要合作单位和项目合作伙伴审查网络和研究议程的概念参数。我们将细化我们国家的案例研究重点，更深入地考虑，并测试我们如何理解、改变和影响项目，以及谁将从我们的研究中受益。(3)讲习班3(2天)：加强跨学科参与--这一专题的目的将是集中两天的活动和讨论，讨论参与社会政策和冲突相关研究的社会科学家与其他学科领域的从业人员和研究人员之间的对话，这些领域包括艺术、人文、教育和管理设计思维。这些都将加强项目设计和更广泛的社会影响。如上所述，除讲习班外，还将制作关于安全保卫协议的培训录像，并在项目的后半部分举办网络研讨会，审查项目计划和未来活动。通过我们的menasp.com网站，我们将支持学习和合作伙伴关系，例如鼓励网络团队撰写博客，介绍他们在网络中工作的经验，以及我们如何进一步发展网络。有兴趣的公众可以在MENASP网络的网站www.menasp.com上关注我们的工作

This proposal is organised around the four core principles of the AHRC development award call which are to develop equitable and sustainable partnerships in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs), support LMIC capability development, develop pathways to impact and enhance inter-disciplinary working. To this end, we will undertake a programme of: (a) strategic consultations with existing and new international and local experts, partners and practitioners regarding our network's research agenda and approach; (b) face-to-face and online knowledge sharing and co-design activities to enhance our network and partnerships. This programme of work will directly frame our final stage Network Plus proposal and strengthen the foundations of our network plus "hub", the MENASP network (www.menasp.com), for sustainable, cross-regional and equitable partnership working in conflict-affected countries. In so doing, this development award will directly support the core aims and scope of our shortlisted outline proposal whose strategic vision is to forge a paradigm shift in the critical analysis and policy practices of conflict-prevention in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) by advocating a shift towards a welfare-centred, social policy perspective. The latter requires a focus on the governance and impact of social protection policies in tackling the most overlooked yet urgently pertinent drivers of civic unrest and conflict in MENA.The centre piece activity will be a five day practice-based planning workshop made up of three inter-related streams, that will take place in Dubai in February 2020 with the support of the British Council UAE office. The workshop will be managed by a local facilitator. The three steams of work will be: (1) Workshop stream 1 (1 day): Safeguarding and inclusion in contexts of conflict - the management team and partners will consider the meanings of safeguarding and inclusion within the scope of the project. They will produce a protocol to guide the work of the network long term. This protocol will also be explained in a training film that will also be produced as part of the project. (2) Workshop stream 2 (2 days): Consultation on research objectives and network approach - the aim of this stream will be to review the conceptual parameters of the network plus research agenda with the key co-Is and project partners. We will refine our country case study focus, consider in more depth and also test how we undertand change and impact will happen in the project and who will benefit from our research. (3) Workshop stream 3 (2 days): Enhancing interdisciplinary engagement - the aim of this stream will be to focus two days of activity and discussions on dialogue between social scientists involved in social policy and conflict related research with practitioners and researchers from other discipline areas such the arts, humanities, education and management design thinking. These will enhance the project design and wider societal impact. As stated above, in addition to the workshop will also produce a training video about the safe-guarding protocols and run a webinar during the later half of the project to review the project plans and future activities. Using our menasp.com website, we will support learning and partnerships for example by encouraging the network team to write blogs about their experiences of working in the network and how we can develop it further. Interested members of the public will be able to follow our work on the website of the MENASP network www.menasp.com