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MAPPING OF SIERRA LEONEAN HEALTH PROFESSIONALS IN THE UK

This study was commissioned by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) as part of its wider Migration for Development in Africa (MIDA) initiative in Sierra Leone, to assist the Government of Sierra Leone to strengthen its institutional capacity through the transfer of diaspora healthcare workers’ knowledge and skills to their home country.

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Diasporas in Humanitarian Settings:Creating Opportunities for Complementary Action

BACKGROUND INFORMATION While the contribution of diasporas to development has been widely researched, their input into the humanitarian sphere remains underexplored. The Diaspora Emergency Action & Coordination (DEMAC) project aims to document the strength and complementarity of diaspora humanitarianism and highlight opportunities for greater collaboration at local and international level. At the occasion of the World Humanitarian Day the DEMAC consortium in partnership with the Global Child Protection Area of Responsibility teams held a seminar called “Diasporas in Humanitarian Settings – Creating Opportunities for Complementary Action” on Monday 20th August 2018 at the UNICEF offices in Geneva. This seminar created the space to bring Diaspora humanitarians and those within the humanitarian sector together to learn about and discuss the findings from the latest DEMAC research report “Creating Opportunities to Work with Diasporas in Humanitarian Settings”. The seminar also provided the opportunity for humanitarian practitioners and diaspora humanitarians to hear directly from each other and explore areas of interest. Over the course of the DEMAC project we have seen the value in creating spaces for one to one conversations to explore areas of synergy and share experiences, this proved to be equally valuable on this occasion.

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Creating Opportunities To Work With Diasporas In Humanitarian Settings

Diaspora organisations (DOs) are newly recognised actors in the humanitarian space. DOs respond to crises such as those in Syria, Somalia, and Nigeria, which have shown the limitations of the traditional humanitarian sector. Their contributions to emergency response are under-studied and, as our research shows, often misunderstood due to a gap in knowledge about their work. This report contributes to filling this gap. It sets out to understand how DOs contribute to strengthening humanitarian response in crisis settings. We explore opportunities to work with DOs in humanitarian action through six case studies of DOs operating in Somalia and Syria. Fieldwork was conducted in seven remote sites of humanitarian intervention, including in Nigeria, where DO actions are still limited. A context analysis for Nigeria provides an entry point into understanding the potential for DOs to contribute in the northeastern region.

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Mapping the Rwandan Diaspora in the United Kingdom

While there is a growing body of research literature on Rwanda and its diaspora, there are no extant studies focusing specifically on Rwandans in the United Kingdom. This is in large part attributable to the fact that the Rwandan community in the United Kingdom is a relatively small one, concentrated across three major urban areas: London, the Midlands and Manchester and the North, with smaller groups in Scotland and in the rest of England and Wales. It is difficult to accurately estimate the number of Rwandans in the United Kingdom, but an estimated figure of 10,000–15,000 is likely, drawing on existing data sources (see section 2). Rwandans in the United Kingdom mostly arrived between 1994 and 2000, with smaller numbers arriving in the period from 2000 to 2018.

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CHECKLIST: ENGAGING DIASPORAS FOR EMERGENCY ACTION AND COORDINATION A practical tool for diaspora organisations and actors in the humanitarian system designed to improve operational and strategic communication and coordination.

This Checklist is a product of Phase I of the Diaspora Emergency Action and Coordination (DEMAC) project. The first phase of the DEMAC project was an ambitious and wide-ranging exercise focusing on Sierra Leonean, Somali and Syrian diaspora-based relief organisations and initiatives based in the UK, Denmark and Germany. It was implemented over nineteen months to improve diaspora emergency response capacity and coordination with the ‘formal’ humanitarian system to improve conditions for people of concern in humanitarian crises.

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 The Zayed Sustainability Prize is an annual global award for recognising impactful, innovative, and inspirational sustainability solutions  The Zayed Sustainability Prize is a continuation of a global sustainability legacy, inspired by the UAE’s founding father, the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan  The Zayed Sustainability Prize awards five categories: Health, Food, Energy, Water, and Global High Schools  The Zayed Sustainability Prize recognises that young people are the driving force for future sustainable development and empowers them to reach their full potential

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One nation one people one destiny-Ghanaian diaspora contribution to national dev,t, using diverse channels 2004

This research examines just three of the diverse ways in which Ghanaians in the diaspora effect the transfer of resources with the broad aim of improving the economic lot of their counterparts in Ghana’s northern, central and coastal zones. An obvious conclusion is that the Ghanaian diaspora is already engaging in mobilizing funds for national development through various community-level development projects. The way the money comes in is in small bits, sporadic, unorganised and information about it is rather scanty. But this activity could form a key plank for a national development strategy given the appropriate policy and institutional framework.

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