The main objective ofthisstudy isto understand the capacity and interest ofthe Ghanaian and Sierra Leonean diaspora engaged in development and job creation activities and to identify how to best support and enhance these positive contributions.
MADE migration and development, West Africa Project 2018 Read More »
Diaspora entrepreneurship and investments are often hailed as drivers of economic development and positive change, and there is enough evidence to support this: 80% of FDI in China is from the Chinese diaspora, Indian diasporas in the USA have played an instrumental role in building up India’s IT industry and creating a second ‘Silicon Valley’ in their country to name some of the well-known success stories. This is no different to African diaspora actors. So who are these people and how have they become so engaged with their home countries?
Paper 2016 Diaspora engagement on country entrepreneurship and investment Read More »
Diaspora entrepreneurship and investments are often hailed as drivers of economic development and positive change, and there is enough evidence to support this: 80% of FDI in China is from the Chinese diaspora, Indian diasporas in the USA have played an instrumental role in building up India’s IT industry and creating a second ‘Silicon Valley’ in their country — to name some of the well-known success stories. This is no different to African diaspora actors. So who are these people and how have they become so engaged with their home countries?
Diaspora engagement on country entrepreneurship and investment paper 2016 Read More »
The roadmap is a plan developed from AFFORD’s activities in the MADE West Africa project between 2016 and 2020. It considered what has been accomplished so far and looks at future actions to harness diaspora resources into development.
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This roadmap is an output of the project “West Africa – Migration and Development, Partnership for Rights-based Governance of Migration and Mobility” or MADE West Africa, which is funded by the European Commission. MADE West Africa was launched by AFFORD (African Foundation for Development), the Centre for Migration Studies (University of Ghana), the FORIM (Forum of International Organizations of Migration Issues), and ICMC Europe (International Catholic Migration Commission). MADE West Africa’s general objective is to promote good governance of migration and mobility, as well as the protection of the rights of migrants in the ECOWAS region, in order to increase the benefits of migration and mobility on development. This objective is achieved through in-depth work from 2017-2020 in six pilot countries with the following pillars:
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