GHANACOOP

Date Shared:

Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - 16:30

Countries and areas:

Ghana, Italy

2030 Agenda migration-relevant and related target Labels:

Targets that contribute to employment or employment creation

Targets that could benefit from the potential of migration and migrants

GCM Thematic Cluster Areas:

Objective 19: Create conditions for migrants and diasporas to fully contribute to sustainable development in all countries

Objective 20: Promote faster, safer and cheaper transfer of remittances and foster financial inclusion of migrants

Contributors:

Civil Society

International Organizations

Chairmanship:

Mauritius 2012

Geographical Relevance:

Bilateral

Tags:

Sustainable Development , Diaspora Empowerment and Engagement, Diaspora Investment and Entrepreneurship, Local Development, Livelihoods and Job Creation

Summary:

Ghanacoop is a social cooperative promoting the competences of Ghanaian migrants residing in the Province of Modena, Italy. The cooperative was created through IOM's Migration for Development in Africa (MIDA) programme, which supports migrant diasporas wishing to invest in their country through skills transfer and new enterprises,

The Ghanaian diaspora have partnered with local government and local business to set up agrarian cooperatives back home, which in turn trade their produce with the community in Italy.

Ghanacoop project is born with a reciprocity purpose, aiming to involve Ghanaian migrants as active agents of their own economic and social development within the community in which they live and their communities of origin in Ghana.

Link:

https://www.iom.int/migrant-stories/when-investment-not-just-about-econo...

GFMD Source:

GFMD 2012 - Report of Summit Proceedings