Handbook on Engaging Diaspora in Development Activities in Host and Home Countries

Date Shared:

Monday, December 23, 2013 - 12:15

Countries and areas:

Global

2030 Agenda migration-relevant and related target Labels:

Targets that could benefit from the potential of migration and migrants

GCM Thematic Cluster Areas:

Objective 1: Collect and utilize accurate and disaggregated data as a basis for evidence-based policies

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

Contributors:

International Organizations

Member States

Chairmanship:

Greece 2009

Tags:

Migration in the United Nations, Capacity Building, Diaspora Empowerment and Engagement, Mainstreaming Migration into Development Planning

Summary:

At the request of the Governments of Netherlands and Switzerland, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) developed this handbook as a tool for policymakers and practitioners to help them reach out to their diaspora and develop meaningful partnerships with them in their home and host countries. The handbook reflects the outcomes of a survey implemented jointly by the IOM and MPI among GFMD focal points, as well as the discussions within the GFMD on how to engage the diasporas and migrant communities.

If you have a GFMD account, you can download the Diaspora Contact Points Directory, as a first result of the project.

Link:

http://www.gfmd.org/pfp/policy-tools/diaspora-handbook
For more information on research and activities undertaken by IOM and MPI see: http://www.iom.int & http://www.migrationpolicy.org/
For more information on the ongoing IOM-ICMPD project on Linking Emigrant Communities for More Development and to download the “Inventory of Institutional Capacities and Practices”, based on research conducted in 13 countries in Africa and the Middle East, click here: “Linking Emigrant Communities for More Development”.
To download a more general handbook for policy makers and practitioners on ‘Mainstreaming Migration into Development Planning’ created by the Global Migration group, go to: http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=661

Link to documents:

GFMD Source:

GFMD 2009 - Roundtable 1.2 on "Engaging diasporas and migrants in development policies and programs–Their role? Their constraints?"