A small selection of the experience Marram draws on. These are examples drawn from its in-house experience, not a strict record of Marram projects. A fuller record is available upon request.
Spotlight on Local and Refugee-Led Efforts to Address Key Protection Needs
Advisory Consultant, South and Southeast Asia. Rapid assessment across three regions, drawing on interviews with 107 organisations in 22 countries. With Jessica Marsh, Lead Consultant.
Refugee protection, human smuggling and trafficking in Bangladesh and Southeast Asia
Co-commissioned and reviewed as Head of MMC Asia and the Pacific, one of many research and protection analyses commissioned, reviewed and cleared in the role. Informed a January 2023 Danish Refugee Council public release. With the Danish Refugee Council, Asia Displacement Solutions Platform, Geutanyoë Foundation, HOST International and Jesuit Refugee Service Indonesia.
Trafficking networks in Southeast Asia
Directed this UNODC-funded applied research project as Head of MMC Asia and the Pacific, until leaving the centre.
Forced Displacement and NGOs in Asia and the Pacific
Co-editor. Examines conflict- and climate-driven displacement and civil society response across the region. With Gül İnanç.
The Diplomat and Bangkok Post
‘Afghan Women and Migration in the Era of Restrictions’ (The Diplomat, 2023). ‘Bhasan Char and refugee “warehousing”’ (The Diplomat, 2022). ‘Unwelcome Refugees: Afghans Continue to Face Pushback and Deportation’ (The Diplomat, 2022). ‘Unable to Leave: The Afghans Stuck in Afghanistan’ (The Diplomat, 2022). ‘A new era for refugee protection in Thailand?’ (Bangkok Post, 2020). ‘Why Hakeem al-Araibi matters’ (Bangkok Post, 2019). At times in collaboration.
Round Table Four
Named panellist, representing the Mixed Migration Centre, on Round Table Four of the UN’s first International Migration Review Forum, which reviewed progress on objectives 1, 3, 7, 17 and 23 of the Global Compact for Migration. Co-panellists included Amina Bouayach, President of Morocco’s national human rights institution and Secretary of GANHRI, and H.E. Md. Shahriar Alam, State Minister for Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh.
Submission to OHCHR on trafficking in persons and protection of refugees, stateless persons and IDPs
Marram’s lead consultant was a named point of contact, as Head of MMC Asia and the Pacific. The submission analyses anti-trafficking and refugee protection frameworks in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, assesses their alignment with international law, and sets out recommendations, including reform of the Bali Process.
Advocacy and UN submissions.
Coordinated joint submissions to Thailand’s third-cycle Universal Periodic Review and a CERD shadow report, and co-signed a submission to the UN High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement arguing for the participation of displacement-affected communities. Presented on structural barriers to refugee leadership within international NGOs, and partnered on the 2019 campaign that led to the release of Hakeem al-Araibi from detention in Bangkok.
Copenhagen
Co-designed and co-facilitated, with sessions on research processes and Action Research methodology. Convened by the Asia Displacement Solutions Platform, the Mixed Migration Centre, the Danish Refugee Council and the University of Auckland’s Centre for Asia Pacific Refugee Studies.
Kuala Lumpur
Co-designed and presented for refugee and refugee-community representatives, giving them research tools for their own advocacy. Convened by the Danish Refugee Council, the Mixed Migration Centre and the Asia Displacement Solutions Platform.
International
Taught International Refugee and Human Rights Law through Sofia University’s Legal Clinic for Refugees and Immigrants (2007–08), and co-instructed ‘Refugee Participation’ at the American University in Cairo (2010). Guest lectured at the International Institute of Humanitarian Law, Sanremo (2022), and through the CPG Online Academy on Migration and Displacement for Thammasat, Münster and Goethe Frankfurt universities (2021–22).
Research lead
Led the Mixed Migration Centre’s role in this two-year, EU/ECHO-funded regional technical cooperation programme across Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia, covering its research, reporting and press statements. Delivered under a grant to the Danish Refugee Council with the Asia Displacement Solutions Platform, the Geutanyoë Foundation and Jesuit Refugee Service Indonesia. The programme reached 54 local, 20 international and 27 regional organisations.
Secretary General
Led a regional human rights network of more than 250 members in 25 countries, with a secretariat of seven under a volunteer Steering Committee, and held budget and fundraising responsibility through the COVID-19 pandemic. Set a multi-year advocacy strategy grounded in theory of change and power analysis. Represented the network in dialogue with UNHCR, OHCHR, national human rights institutions and diplomatic missions, and carried out a Global Refugee Forum gender assessment jointly with UN Women.
Programme Manager
Built and directed this global network of legal-aid providers for refugees and asylum seekers, connecting providers in more than 150 countries and sustaining operations through the programme’s 2014 merger into the International Refugee Rights Initiative. Also Chief Editor of the programme’s newsletter, and produced guidance materials and training tools that connect legal standards to protection practice. Rights in Exile continues today as an online platform run by AsyLex, with a directory of free legal assistance providers in more than 160 countries.
A selection of the networks, UN bodies, donors and institutions engaged through consulting work and institutional roles.
