Development

Rencontres Nationales de l’Intégration et du Codéveloppement

Date: 18/12/2012 - 11:16

Le Forum des Organisations de Solidarité Internationale issues des Migrations (FORIM) organise la 2ème édition des Rencontres Nationales de l’Intégration et du Codéveloppement (RENAICODE). Cette action se déroule du 3 novembre au 18 décembre 2012, dans 11 régions françaises, 4 départements franciliens, au Bénin et au Vietnam.

Mobilizing Diaspora Entrepreneurship for Development

Date: 18/11/2011 - 08:18

Entrepreneurs are people with a unique combination of traits: They are attuned to market openings and the investment environment, alert to opportunity, innovative, and tolerant of risk.

Migrants may not be the first group that comes to mind when considering who is likely to become an entrepreneur. But emigrants and their descendents are, in fact, uniquely positioned to recognize investment opportunities in their countries of origin and to exploit such opportunities by taking advantage of their ties in two worlds.

Migration and Development Policy: What Have We Learned?

Date: 19/10/2011 - 08:52

The policy brief sums up a number of critical lessons of recent years, including that policymakers have largely discarded the once-prevailing notion that economic development is a general cure for migration; and that while labor migration is salient, migration motivations abound and migrants who move for reasons other than work also make meaningful contributions to development in their countries of origin.

Europe-wide Diaspora Platform for Development launched!

Date: 30/06/2011 - 15:20

A platform representing Diaspora organizations working on international development issues was today created at the end of a three-day meeting of diaspora organizations drawn from 13 countries in Europe. The conference held at the Kontakt der Kontinenten in Soesterberg, The Netherlands resolved that the Europe-wide Diaspora Platform for Development be formed to coordinate international development efforts of migrants in Europe.

DÉBAT THÉMATIQUE INFORMEL SUR LE THÈME: MIGRATIONS INTERNATIONALES ET DÉVELOPPEMENT

Date: 23/05/2011 - 08:48

Dans la société mondialisée du vingt et unième siècle, la migration internationale, estimée à 214 millions de personnes en 2010, au lieu d’être synonyme d’anxiété et de repli sur soi, gagnerait à être considérée comme une chance de plus dans la réalisation du développement, ont estimé aujourd’hui les participants au débat thématique informel de l’Assemblée générale sur les « migrations internationales et le développement ».

Migrants underwrite development through their remittances

Date: 23/05/2011 - 08:38

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today underlined the role of migrants in accelerating development through remitting funds regularly to their countries of origin, noting that their economic contributions to host societies are often overlooked.

“Let us not forget, entire communities subsist almost entirely on remittances,” Mr. Ban told the General Assembly’s thematic debate on Migration and Development.

Labour and Social Protections Essential for Women Migrant Workers

Date: 13/05/2011 - 14:58

The topic of migration and development took to the spotlight this week at the Fourth UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC-IV), bringing together high-level officials on 11 and 12 May to discuss, in particular, the challenges, rights and social as well as labour protections of women migrant workers.

Présentation des résultats des projets tunisiens retenus par l'ICMD

Date: 19/12/2010 - 07:52

Un séminaire a été organisé, jeudi, à Tunis, par l'OIM (Organisation Internationale pour les migrations), afin de présenter les résultats

5ème rencontre Diapode : Les diasporas, quels leviers de développement économique pour les économies du Sud?

Date: 05/11/2010 - 13:04
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Le samedi 13 novembre prochain Enda Europe et La Cade (Coordination pour l'Afrique de Demain) organisent une rencontre sur l'engagements des membres des diasporas dans des projets de développement économique durable dans les pays du Sud.

Cette nouvelle rencontre fait suite au Forum de l'emploi de l'Association des Diplômés et des Etudiants Maliens soutenu par Enda Europe en juillet dernier.

Location
17, Boulevard Jourdan, Métro Cité Internationale Universitaire, Paris
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Decent work for all: Making migration work for development

Date: 01/10/2010 - 13:21

Report on a conference organized by SOLIDAR and the Global Progressive Forum at which they launched a three-year project which aims to mobilise support from European citizens and politicians for a rights-based approach to labour migration and decent work and for policy coherence for development.

Download the report here

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