Multi-stakeholder community consultations as a multi-purpose research tool - Experiences from the Democratic Republic of Congo

The Multi-Stakeholder Community Consultation (MSCC) is a participatory research tool that has been
developed by the DR Congo team of TRAFIG and that will be applied in other countries in the course of
the project too. By bringing together a mixed group of respondents (displaced, hosts, authorities, civil
society), the tool is geared towards collecting additional insights through an interactive d ialogue on
intergroup relations, validating findings gathered through other methods, and jointly seeking solutions
for problems that are identified by the participants. In this note we provide methodological guidance and
share our experience of using the tool in the DRC. Other TRAFIG country teams, interested researchers
and practitioners can learn from it and adapt it to their own needs.