ICMPD-Review-2015
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<strong>ICMPD</strong> Annual Report <strong>2015</strong><br />
50<br />
Capacity Building<br />
“Understanding the migration-development<br />
nexus and its policy implications is a precondition<br />
for pursuing comprehensive, sustainable and<br />
future-oriented migration governance.”<br />
Regional Mobility<br />
Promoting diaspora engagement is a major part of<br />
our work on the migration-development nexus. We<br />
took stock of more than eight years of activities in<br />
this field and published a working paper on lessons<br />
learned. It capitalises on our experience working<br />
with governments in designing improved policies<br />
and programmes, and the partnerships we have<br />
formed with some of the most well-known diaspora<br />
organisations in Europe to empower diasporas as<br />
development actors.<br />
As concrete evidence for the growing importance of<br />
effective diaspora engagement for governments<br />
world wide, we worked with seven countries on three<br />
different continents. In Burundi, Ghana, Malawi,<br />
Paraguay, and Tajikistan we helped develop new<br />
strategies and action plans.<br />
We supported Georgia to embark on a high-profile<br />
diaspora programme, and in Lebanon we started<br />
working on a diaspora direct investment strategy,<br />
which will cater one of the world’s biggest diaspora<br />
groups. We also conducted a feasibility study on<br />
diaspora entrepreneurship and supported the<br />
Global Forum on Migration and De vel opment with<br />
a background paper for the Istanbul summit on<br />
this still emerging topic. We have seen that whereas<br />
the importance of the private sector in development<br />
cooperation is widely acknowledged, the role of<br />
the migrant and diasporas is often over looked.<br />
An inclusive business approach that jointly defines<br />
goals that directly affect diasporas can bring substan<br />
tial gains to countries of destination and origin.<br />
Building a platform for African diaspora organisations<br />
Since 2011, <strong>ICMPD</strong> supports the set-up of ADEPT, a service delivery platform for African<br />
diaspora organisations in Europe engaged in the development of Africa. ADEPT acts as a<br />
catalyst for diaspora development actions for the 84 countries targeted: 28 EU countries<br />
plus Switzerland and Norway, and 54 African countries.
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