Arab Expatriate Exchange is IOM’s insitutional communication with expatriate groups from the Middle East and North Africa Inside this issue : • Migration and Development in Jordan: Unraveling Complex Interconnections • Building Bridges of Understanding: One Researcher Gives Back with Knowledge, Advice, and Mentorship • Alwehdah: Helping to Rebuild Yemen from across the Ocean

“The Migration of Culinary Traditions in the Region” is a book of recipes garnered by IOM staff in Missions across South-Eastern Europe, Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The recipes give insight into the rich cultural heritage of each country and are meant to be shared as a way of celebrating the histories and stories of migration that each meal embodies. The book celebrates how food can bring people together, how sharing a meal can promote understanding and tolerance, and how cuisine evolves with human migration.

Arab Expatriate Exchange is IOM’s insitutional communication with expatriate groups from the Middle East and North Africa. Inside this issue: Preserving the past for the future: Arab American National Musuem Little Syria, NY: An immigrant Community’s Life & Legacy What is new at IOM and Announcements

Arab Expatriate Exchange is IOM’s insitutional communication with expatriate groups from the Middle East and North Africa. Inside this issue: Meet two of the expatriate athletes participating in the 2016 Rio Olympic Games!

Arab Expatriate Exchange is IOM’s insitutional communication with expatriate groups from the Middle East and North Africa Inside this issue : CNIEA: Helping Iraqi immigrants build a new life in Canada Young Egyptian-American connects peers NARWI: a crowdfunding platform for Arab expatriates to support Arab entreprene

Malgré ses potentitalités, l'Afrique connaît encore beaucoup d'obstacles à son développement endogène. En effet, une croissance démographique globalement importante combinée à une situation politique, économique ou sociale difficile ont poussé bon nombre de ses ressortissants à s'expatrier pour améliorer leur situation. Par ailleurs, dans de nombreux pays, l'expansion de l^épidémie du HIV/SIDA prive l'Afrique des ressources humaines indispensables à son développement socioéconomique.

Despite all its potential, Africa is still facing numerous stumbling blocks in the way of its endogenous development. Indeed, generally high population growth has combined with a difficult political, economic or social situation to spur many of its citizens to emigrate in order to improve their situation. Moreover, in many countries, the spread of the HIV/AIDS epidemic is robbing Africa of the human resources essential to its economic development. This document presents an overview of the programme.

Over the past ten years IOM’s experience in ac­companying governments through programmes, initiatives, studies and nu­merous conferences con­cerning Migration for De­velopment in Africa (MIDA) and similar initiatives in Latin America and the Car­ibbean, Asia and the Pacific have demonstrated that migration can bring signifi­cant benefits for social and economic development.

The Workshop on Migration and Development, held in Geneva on 2-3 February 2005, was organized in cooperation with the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The main objectives of the workshop were to examine why migration should be considered a development issue, to look at the synergies between migration and development agendas, and to examine how migration could be mainstreamed into development policy agendas, focusing on MDGs, partnerships and engaging diasporas.

The Workshop on Migration and Development, held in Geneva on 2-3 February 2005, was organized in cooperation with the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The main objectives of the workshop were to examine why migration should be considered a development issue, to look at the synergies between migration and development agendas, and to examine how migration could be mainstreamed into development policy agendas, focusing on MDGs, partnerships and engaging diasporas.