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

该提案围绕AHRC发展奖的四个核心原则组织，即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能力发展，发展影响和加强跨学科工作的途径。为此，我们将开展一项计划：（a）与现有和新的国际和本地专家、合作伙伴和从业人员就我们网络的研究议程和方法进行战略磋商;（B）面对面和在线知识共享和共同设计活动，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加提案的框架，并加强我们网络加“枢纽”-中东北非和中东北非伙伴关系网络（www.menasp.com）的基础，以促进在受冲突影响国家开展工作的可持续、跨区域和公平的伙伴关系。在这样做的过程中，这个发展奖将直接支持我们的入围大纲提案的核心目标和范围，其战略愿景是通过倡导转向以福利为中心的社会政策视角，在中东和北非地区（MENA）预防冲突的批判性分析和政策实践中形成范式转变。后者要求重点关注社会保障政策的治理和影响，以解决中东和北非地区最被忽视但又迫切相关的公民骚乱和冲突驱动因素。核心活动将是为期五天的基于实践的规划研讨会，由三个相互关联的流程组成，将于2020年2月在迪拜举行，并得到英国理事会阿联酋办事处的支持。讲习班将由一名当地主持人管理。工作的三个流程将是：（1）研讨会流程1（1天）：在冲突环境中保护和包容-管理团队和合作伙伴将考虑在项目范围内保护和包容的含义。他们将制定一个协议来指导网络的长期工作。还将在培训影片中解释该方案，该影片也将作为项目的一部分制作。(2)研讨会流程2（2天）：关于研究目标和网络方法的磋商-这一流程的目的是审查网络的概念参数以及与主要机构和项目伙伴的研究议程。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项目中将发生的变化和影响，以及谁将从我们的研究中受益。(3)研讨会流3（2天）：加强跨学科的参与-这一流的目的将集中在两天的活动和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，如艺术，人文，教育和管理设计思维的从业者和研究人员之间的对话讨论。这将加强项目设计和更广泛的社会影响。如上所述，除了研讨会之外，还将制作一个关于安全防护协议的培训视频，并在项目的后半部分举办一个网络研讨会，以审查项目计划和未来的活动。通过我们的menasp.com网站，我们将支持学习和伙伴关系，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。感兴趣的公众成员将能够在MEASP网络的网站上关注我们的工作www.menasp.com

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