Fieldwork continued in Mozambique as MCCRA team members visited multiple sites to collect data and discuss our project.

Essex team members travelled throughout Northern Uganda to discuss people's experiences with language and conflict.

Essex team members visited Makerere University, and later met with local policing experts to discuss the history of armed conflict and linguistic issues in Uganda. 

MCCRA team members from Essex, ODI, Cameroon, DRC, Mozambique, and Uganda met up to discuss research and plan future steps. It was great to get the group together! 

From March to May 2025, MCCRA team members set out to collect qualitative data in Nigeria, collecting 60 interviews and focus groups, and meeting various stakeholders.

In April 2025, Omomayowa Abati (Essex), Caitlin Stronge (ODI Global) and Stephanie Diepeveen (KCL) represented the MCCRA project at the Political Studies Association Conference in Birmingham.

Between January and March 2025, our team conducted fieldwork in various regions of Cameroon, conducting around 60 interviews in the process, in addition to focus groups and gathering other observations. 

In February 2025 we convened our first Practitioner Advisory Group (PAG) meeting online. The PAG is a group composed of targeted members across the five case study countries, with regional and global expertise on peace building and multilingualism practices​. The PAG provides strategic advice and insights during key project milestones on the relevance of the research. The PAG also supports the team at translating our research into practical impact in their respective contexts and areas of expertise​. In this first meeting, PAG members provided feedback on the approach of the project, highlighting key areas of relevance as related to their areas of work and expertise that the MCCRA team will seek to incorporate into the next phases of the project.

In September 2024, we met for our first all-team in-person workshop at the office of the ODI in London. For three days, we discussed the implementation of the project across our five case countries, and our impact strategy over the lifecycle of the project.