International Organizations

The Global Diaspora Policy Alliance (GDPA) is a global network dedicated to promoting inclusive, evidence-based diaspora policies through fostering transnational cooperation among governments, diaspora communities, and international organizations. The GDPA advances dialogue, partnership, and peer learning to strengthen diaspora engagement, social cohesion, and sustainable development. It facilitates the exchange of best practices to empower diasporas in both their countries of origin and residence.

A green finance initiative leveraging diaspora capital for environmental development. It aligns diaspora investment with national climate goals, particularly in renewable energy and sustainable agriculture, demonstrating the potential of climate-diaspora synergies.

This initiative mobilizes the Ecuadorian diaspora in the US, Italy, and Spain to boost entrepreneurship and investment, supporting local development and inclusion of migrants through strengthened diaspora–municipality collaboration.

The "Diaspora Investor's Guide" aims to encourage people to invest and contribute to the achievement of Cabo Verde’s objectives and goals in terms of quantitative and qualitative leaps in its capacity to generate and consolidate quality employment and well-being through the participation of the Diaspora in green growth, competitiveness and sustainability. 

A development-driven initiative implemented by IOM and funded by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS), aiming to harness the potential of the Tunisian diaspora for socio-economic recovery, particularly in high-migration regions. The project mobilizes social, cultural, human, and financial capital through partnerships between diaspora investors and local entrepreneurs.

This city practice has been contributed as part of the Call to Local Action for Migrants and Refugees ( see https://localaction.mayorsmechanism.org/)

Given the context of large-scale displacement in Northern Mozambique, the Municipal Council of Pemba City (CMCP), with the support of UN-Habitat and IOM, propose to work synergically on the urban dimension of displacement as an opportunity to ensure a better future for displaced and host communities through increasing IDPs’ integration in urban areas.

In Ecuador, in 2024, R4V partners reached 73,634 refugees, migrants and host community members through various initiatives to promote socio-economic inclusion. These efforts included support for access to employment through vocational and technical training, capacity-building programmes, and job placement assistance to enhance labour market integration.

The sub-regional R4V programme spans Trinidad and Tobago, Aruba, Curacao, the Dominican Republic, and Guyana, operating at a sub-regional level to combat the social and economic exclusion of Venezuelan refugees and migrants.

The RMRP covers 17 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean with an overview of 12 thematic areas of direct assistance (Education, Food Security, Health, Humanitarian Transportation, Integration, Nutrition, Protection, Child Protection, Gender-Based Violence, Human Trafficking and Smuggling, Shelter and WASH).
This structure, also replicated at a national level, provides an ample scope of response and collaboration between the partners of the platform and the local government, and this is reflected in regional and country response plans.

On 26 May 2024, the World Health Organization announced the official selection of this years winning films of its 5th Health for All Film Festival. The awards were announced at a special event launching WHOs Investment Round on the eve of the Seventy-Seventh World Health Assembly in Geneva. Among the film awarded, the special Prize Migrants and Refugees Health was given to Dalal's Story directed by Alexandra Cordukes from Laundry Lane Productions (Australia).