The African Diaspora Policy Centre (ADPC) enables African Diaspora in Europe to
connect more closely with the continent as a collective force. The thematic areas are Peacebuilding, Better Governance, Migration & Development and Brain Gain
- To provide a platform for the diaspora researchers in which they can exchange knowledge and experience in the field, establish transnational contacts and enter into joint research collaborations;
- To strengthen the participation of the diaspora researchers in the production of knowledge in the field of migration & development and better governance;
- To stimulate the inclusion of the diaspora voices and visions in policy deliberations in the form of publications, public debates and expert meetings;
Participants to this meeting have been drawn from a cross-section of diaspora researchers and experts from the continent, Europe and United States of America with extensive expertise on migration and development. They include:
Professor Aderanti Adepoju, Coordinator, Network of Migration Research on Africa (NOMRA), Chief Executive, Human Resources Development Centre (HRDC), Lagos, Nigeria.
Professor John Oucho, Marie Curie Chair Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations School of Health and Social Studies, The University of Warwick Coventry, UK.
Dr. Mariama Awumbila, Centre for Migration Studies (CMS) at the University of Ghana.
Dr. Osman Alhassan, Centre for Migration Studies (CMS) at the University of Ghana.
Asubonteng-Manu Edward Kwadwo, Centre for Migration Studies (CMS) at the University of Ghana.
Professor Jennifer Brinkerhoff, Associate Professor Public Administration & International Affairs, George Washington University.
Dimitria Clayton, Ministry for Integration of North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany.
Olukunle Ojeleye, Department of War Studies King’s College, University of London.
Professor Christian Anyanwu, Department of Social Sciences Medgar Evers College of City University of New York.
Joshua Kwesi Aikins, Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology at University of Bielefeld in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Professor Chudi Uwarzurike, College of City University of New York.
The expert meeting will take place at the Lloyd Hotel, Amsterdam, on the 2nd and 3rd of October, 2008. The expert meeting is organised in collaboration with MacArthur Foundation and Oxfam Novib.
The short summary below is of the meetings attended by Dr. Mohamoud and Antony Ong'ayo in Ghana and Nigeria, in preparation for the research project.
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African Diaspora Skills
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Rules and regulations for registration on the African
Diaspora Skills Database
The following African Diaspora Policy Centre (henceforth ADPC) Privacy Statement is based on Dutch jurisdiction, more specifically, it is based on the Dutch Data Protection Act (de Wet Bescherming Persoonsgegevens)
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The database will offer direct access to an overview of the expertise of African Diaspora individuals and organisations that are active in or have interest in contributing to the
economic, social and political development of Africa. There are two aims of the African Diaspora Skills Database:
(1) To facilitate the structural inclusion of the skilled African
Diaspora in the technical expert database of the development cooperation sector and (2)To demonstrate concretely the development potential of the African Diaspora organisations in the Netherlands and the added value they offer in the efforts gearing to reduction of poverty and achieving the Millennium Development Goals in their respective homelands in Africa.This is to encourage Diaspora organisations and the mainstream development
