Diaspora Humanitarianism:Findings of the Diaspora emergency action and coordination project

Background

This final Report and Handbook presents the data
and findings of the Diaspora Emergency Action and
Coordination (DEMAC) project. It includes operational
recommendations for diaspora, donors and institutional
actors to improve mutual coordination, based on these
findings.

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, with the ultimate aim to improve
conditions for people of concern in humanitarian crises.