Geertje Schorer
JOINT LEARNING INITIATIVE The Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities is an international collaboration on evidence for faith groups’ role and contribution to achieving humanitarian and development goals.
Founded in 2012, the leadership of the Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities (JLI) came together with a single shared conviction: there is an urgent need to build our collective understanding of the potential of local faith communities. The JLI serves as an open-source, non-partisan knowledge-sharing platform for all sectors. Working through learning hubs, the JLI utilises publications and meetings to engage partners, and supports faith groups to use their knowledge, skills and assets to realise a world without poverty. The JLI is divided into four Learning Hubs: • Anti-Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery • Ending Violence Against Children • Gender-Based Violence • Refugees and Forced Migration The Learning Hubs are collaborative learning platforms in which practitioners, policy makers, academics and other experts from a variety of sectors and disciplines can share best practice, learn from one another and work together to engage key
stakeholders in faith communities. Leading experts from different sectors co-chair each Learning Hub which further embeds the collaborative process. Anti-Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery Hub The Salvation Army International Development UK is a member and co-chair of the Anti-Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery (AHT-MS) Hub. This is a horizontal evidence-based learning community that links academics, policy makers and governments with local faith communities in order to combat human trafficking and modern slavery. We believe that local faith communities can make a huge difference in tackling trafficking by virtue of their faith. However, there is currently nothing in the academic or political space that verifies this. Research carried out by the JLI aims to establish clear evidence-based links which will serve to enable faith communities to do vital work
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