This brief report summarises some of the discussions that took place at the recent research forum convened in Nairobi by the Research and Evidence Facility (REF) of the EU Trust Fund for Africa in the Horn of Africa.
Taking stock of REF research
Over the last two years, the REF has been carrying out research on many different aspects of the relationship between migration, displacement and development across the Horn of Africa. Its work has focused both on analysing changing conditions in the region and addressing questions and challenges arising from the programming of the EU Trust Fund.
Huge numbers of people are involved in migration across the region, including those moving in search of employment and better opportunities and those displaced by violence and conflict or other conditions, such as drought, that makes it impossible for them to remain in their homeland. A critical area of research has been on examining different aspects of these processes of migration and displacement: what mix of factors drives people to change their places of residence? How does their movement change the places that they leave and where they settle? And how does the intervention of different actors moderate or accelerate these processes?
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