This toolkit has been designed as an operational guide to help academic diaspora, hosts, home and host universities explore the challenges and opportunities ahead through African academic diaspora exchange. Building on the groundbreaking work of the institutional collaborators who have supported this toolkit, its main purpose is to provide hands-on tips and tools to help generate further impact from ongoing and future African academic diaspora exchange.

This is one of three toolkits commissioned by the Danish Refugee Council’s Diaspora Programme to UNU-MERIT/Maastricht University as part of its Diaspora Dialogue in Europe programming.

This guide is intended for Contributors of the iDiaspora platform. The site is rich with activities like blogs, events, and many other dynamic components. Find how to use these components to take advantage of all the features available on the platform.

This guide is intended for Verified Users of the iDiaspora platform. The site is rich with activities like blogs, events, and many other dynamic components. Find how to use these components to take advantage of all the features available on the platform.

Becoming a member of iDiaspora will bring you closer with diasporas and transnational communities for sharing your work with others, but also finding inspiration and new opportunities. You will have access to regularly updated news, relevant resources, learning and funding opportunities. As a member, you will be able to use iDiaspora for sharing your knowledge, creating, and managing your events and networking with each other and diaspora experts. Join the first global diaspora hub now!

This guide is intended for IOM’s internal staff. iDiaspora is rich with activities like blogs, events, and many other dynamic components. Find how to use these components to take advantage of all the features available on the platform. The guide is a reference document to facilitate the use of iDiaspora as a tool in IOM staff’s everyday work.

El objetivo del manual es presentar un documento con la intención de servir como guía para quienes trabajan en la promoción y fortalecimiento del impacto positivo del vínculo existente entre remesas, migración y desarrollo. El manual asimismo promueve la creación de alianzas entre miembros de la diáspora, actores gubernamentales actuando el en campo de las remesas y el desarrollo, el sector privado y las organizaciones de desarrollo de la sociedad civil, incluyendo ONGs, instituciones académicas y fundaciones. En particular, este manual ha sido preparado con cuatro propósitos :

This toolkit stems from the desire to systematize IOM Italy ’s ten-year experience in building capacity and providing technical assistance to migrants’ associations as transnational actors in the field of international cooperation. The aim of this Toolkit is to provide useful guidelines to other IOM’s Missions, UN Agencies, associations (CSOs, NGOs) or institutions that wish to replicate and implement the A.MI.CO. programme (Migrants’ Associations for Co-Development).

La Guía Contribuciones y Contabilización proporciona orientación para los gobiernos y las autoridades nacionales que buscan comprender y medir las contribuciones económicas realizadas por las diásporas a su país de origen, más allá de las contribuciones que hacen a través de las remesas financieras. Estas contribuciones económicas incluyen inversión, comercio, turismo y filantropía.

Contributions et Comptage fournissent des conseils aux gouvernements et aux autorités nationales qui cherchent à comprendre et à mesurer les contributions économiques apportées par les diasporas à leur pays d'origine - au-delà des contributions qu'ils apportent via les envois de fonds. Ces contributions économiques comprennent l'investissement, le commerce, le tourisme et la philanthropie.