a case study from the frontline source area in India
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Knowledge for Change?
November 2023
Introduction and context ‘Survivor engagement’, understood as the involvement of people with lived experience in policy and programming, has seemingly moved to the centre of efforts to address modern slavery and human trafficking, but how can it really shift the way that these issues are tackled? As practice in this area is underdeveloped, the production of knowledge is likely to be crucial in this, changing approaches and responses through the development of new concepts, interpretations, tools and instruments that can be embedded in policy and practice. This report presents a summary of new findings and reflections from an ongoing and collaborative initiative to develop a research agenda through the lens of survivor engagement. It builds on a project that explored promising practices of lived experience engagement in modern slavery policy and programming and which took place in 2022.1 Researchers at the University of Liverpool, with funding from Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO), built an international network of researchers and consultants to explore effective methods and practices involving persons with lived experience in modern slavery policy and programming. Recognising the collaborative research’s significance, the network secured additional funding from the Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre (Modern Slavery PEC) to expand their study between March and July 2023. This expansion enabled a deeper exploration of engagement with first-hand experience and expertise in policy and programme systems.
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