Diaspora, migrants and development News

Diaspora, migrants and development News

2016 Call for Proposals for Scaling Up REmittances (SURE) now open

Does your organization work with the rural poor? Do you see the opportunities of linking migrants remittances with local origin communities? If so, you might be interested in applying for the IFAD grant of up to 500,000USD. Deadline is 17 August.

Call for Civil Society to contribute to a Global Online Consultation on Supporting City Leadership in Implementing Migration Policies for Development

Led by the Global Coalition on Migration (GCM), KNOMAD of the World Bank, UNITAR and the JMDI within the framework of the upcoming Third global Mayoral Forum on Mobility, Migration and Development, this consultation will serve to bring the voices and experiences of civil society to the upcoming Third Global Mayoral Forum on Mobility, Migration and Development to be hosted by Quezon City, Philippines from 29-30th September, 2016.

MADE’s Webinar - Telling a different story of migration

On June 9th 2016, the Europe Chapter of MADE hosted a webinar on the important role of civil society and other non-State actors as well as non-traditional actors such as local governments in changing the current narrative on migrants and migration and in “lifting the images of migrants and diaspora as bearers of culture, diversity and development”.

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