GCRF Development Award - Preventing conflict in fragile countries through understanding and promoting economic justice

我们对该项目的总体愿景是与五个中低国家(阿富汗、哥伦比亚、危地马拉、南苏丹和叙利亚)的研究机构建立公平和持久的工作伙伴关系，并加强它们和我们在理解冲突地区非正规经济和正规经济之间的关系这一全球挑战方面的能力，并促进围绕这些主题进行更有力的研究和证据收集。该项目将执行一系列五个国家讲习班，这些讲习班将纳入一个全球讲习班，以确定对可持续和平作出重大贡献的一个因素--经济、正义和变革。在一个更大的筹资提案(GCRF Network Plus)中，该项目最终将影响被边缘化的社区，这些社区经常经历与冲突有关的经济不平等，以及普遍难以理解正式和非正式经济学的相互作用，以及哪些措施能够带来可持续和平。更具体地说，该项目将通过一系列讲习班、伙伴组织的虚拟能力建设和委员会范围确定活动，使专题、方法和管理技能得以分享，以：1)阐明受冲突影响的边缘化人民针对具体情况和当地确定并确定的优先主题和问题(与经济正义有关)；2)收集和记录当地和/或当地语言的数据、文献；这一项目将加强我们的研究网络的能力，以加强有效和对背景敏感的政策和方案的证据基础，以防止冲突和促进经济正义。项目活动敏锐地认识到，全球研究伙伴关系存在结构、社会、材料、个人和语言问题，并表现出权力关系，决定了谁的知识、技能、议程和价值观被优先考虑。此外，历史殖民关系的遗产和当前的全球权力动态塑造了我们选择的五个背景和对国际发展和研究伙伴关系的期望。对此，我们拟议的活动认识到，合作伙伴将有不同的优先事项、关切事项、时间表和能力，忽视这些差异或假设伙伴关系建立在公平竞争的环境上，可能会阻碍有效的工作方式，并限制我们的变革能力。因此，该项目是与五个选定的小岛屿发展中国家的项目合作伙伴共同构思和开发的，其中包括国际非政府组织基督教援助组织的五个地方办事处及其一些伙伴非政府组织，基督教援助组织已经与这些非政府组织建立和发展了关系。这些组织的投入直接塑造了我们的项目活动，并将扩大项目的影响，因为每个合作伙伴带来的知识、技能和经验。

Our overarching vision for this project is to model equitable and long-lasting working partnerships with research organisations in five low and middle countries (LMICs) - Afghanistan, Colombia, Guatemala, South Sudan and Syria - and strengthen their and our capabilities in regard to the global challenge of understanding the relationship between informal and formal economics in conflict zones and promote more robust research and evidence gathering around these themes. This project will implement a series of five national workshops which will feed into a global workshop to scope out a significant contributing factor to sustainable peace - economic justice and transformation. Set inside a larger funding proposal (GCRF Network Plus), this project will ultimately impact marginalised communities, who often experience economic inequalities connected to conflict and the widespread struggle to understand the interaction of formal and informal economics and what measures lead to sustainable peace. More specifically, this project will enable thematic, methodological and management skills sharing through a series of workshops, virtual capacity-building for partner organisations, and commission scoping exercises to: 1) illuminate context-specific and locally-identified and prioritised themes and issues (related to economic justice) by marginalised people affected by conflict, 2) gather and document local and/or local-language data, literature, commentary and other resources relevant to what economic justice and transformation looks like in specific contexts and 3) map local research institutions and infrastructure.This project will enhance our research network's ability to strengthen the evidence base for effective and contextually sensitive policies and programmes that prevent conflict and promote economic justice. Project activities are keenly informed by an awareness that global research partnerships have structural, social, material, personal and linguistic issues and exhibit power relations that determine whose knowledge, skills, agendas and values are prioritised. Further, the legacy of historical colonial relationships and current global power dynamics shape each of our five selected contexts and expectations of international development and research partnerships. In response, our proposed activities recognize that partners will have diverse priorities, concerns, schedules and capacities, and that ignoring these differences or assuming that partnerships are built on a level playing field can obstruct effective ways of working and limit our transformative capacity. Thus, this project has been conceived of and developed in partnership with project partners in the five selected LMICs, including five local offices of the international NGO Christian Aid along with a selection of their partner NGOs with whom Christian Aid has already established and nurtured relationships. The input of these organisations has directly shaped our project activities and will amplify project impact due to the knowledge, skills and experience that each partner brings.