Strengthening African and Middle Eastern Diaspora Policy through South-South Exchange (AMEDIP)

Date Shared:

Monday, March 24, 2014 - 12:45

Title:

Strengthening African and Middle Eastern Diaspora Policy through South-South Exchange (AMEDIP)

Countries and areas:

Algeria, Cabo Verde, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Lebanon, Mali, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Tunisia

Partner(s):

ICMPD and IOM, with funding provided by the Governments of: France, Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland.

Thematic Area:

Data and research, Governance of migration and coordination of dialogue

Tags:

Capacity Building, Data and Research, Diaspora Empowerment and Engagement, Diaspora Investment and Entrepreneurship

Summary:

'Strengthening African and Middle Eastern Diaspora Policy through South-South Exchange' (AMEDIP) is a project of the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), developed and implemented within the framework of the Dialogue on Mediterranean Transit Migration (MTM). More specifically, AMEDIP builds directly upon the previous MTM initiative 'Linking Emigrant Communities for More Development - Inventory of Institutional Capacities and Practices', implemented by ICMPD and IOM in the period 2009 - 2010. Whilst this inventory provides an overview of institutional capacities and practices in Focus Partner States, AMEDIP seeks to address the particular institutional gaps and needs identifiedin the previous initiative through concrete capacity building measures.

The overall objective of the project is 'to enhance the institutional capacities of national authorities charged with migration and development to better harness the contributions of their diaspora communities'. Reflecting the overall objective, the specific objectives of the project are:

to support the creation and/or further development of comprehensive diaspora policies in Focus Partner States
to strengthen South-South technical cooperation and regional expert exchanges
to enhance institutional and technical capacities of government agencies/local authorities involved in diaspora policy
to strengthen South-North cooperation through knowledge sharing and enhanced institutional dialogue.

GFMD Source:

GFMD 2015 - RT 3.2 'Private sector-Government Partnerships to support migrant/diaspora entrepreneurship and job creation, with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises'
GFMD 2013-2014 - RT 2.2 Background Paper 'Facilitating positive development impacts of diaspora engagement in skills transfers, investments and trade between countries of residence and origin'

Link:

For more information:

http://www.migration4development.org/en/projects/strengthening-african-a...