Civil Society

ëHacking Narrativesí is a campaign that promotes a transforming approach on narratives on migrants and refugees, through a microdocumentary film and a related podcast.

Hola AmÈrica is a program of 2811 and Ashoka that seeks to promote social innovations focused on migration, in order to offer better solutions to the problems that afflict different migrant and refugee communities in Latin America.

Battery Dance runs programs to integrate newly arrived refugees, migrants ñ including unaccompanied children ? with host communities through an innovative dance project in public schools. The program focuses on bridging divides, uniting communities, empowering youth, combatting racism and xenophobia, and ending all discrimination.

Return of the Icons is an initiative from AFFORD Institute that explores and takes forward key conversations around African human remains and cultural artefacts held by UK museums and other institutions. It also considers issues around their preservation and protection, as well as campaigns for their eventual return to their countries of origin, as part of a process of leveraging heritage and culture for job creation and prosperity.

Serve as a ëLinkedIn for Moldovan Diasporaí (including around 1000 profiles) and to create a community of professionals and share knowledge related to various professional fields.
Activities: diaspora members can register in an online portal, create their profile to implement projects, organise trainings, exchange on the forum, look for partners and post job offers.

As part of the MSDG Project, on 23 September 2017, the President of The Gambia declared that a Stake in the Nation Forum (SNF) will be held annually in The Gambia. The Gambia Diaspora Strategy (GDS) and the Gambia Diaspora Directorate (GDD) were launched at the first SNF on the 13th of January 2018. The SNF is a practical mechanism for diaspora engagement in policy development. It is also an innovation to improve general development policy and practice in the New Gambia. SNFs will include high level plenary sessions and thematic workshops.

The GÈnÈration Climat Program (PGC), coordinated by the Fondation pour la Nature et pour l'Homme (FNH) and FORIM, aims to get young people aged 16 to 35 involved in the fight against climate change, in France and internationally, by offering them a range of different activities to help them take action. By following paths of engagement that lead them to understand, meet, act and then spread the word, the PGC aims to enable several thousand young people to grasp climate issues and make them a central focus of their civic commitment.

Organized in different countries and always under the impetus of diasporas, the RIS aim to promote a concerted and effective dynamic in favor of local development, by reinforcing South-South exchanges on the subject. To this end, they bring together representatives of the State, civil society, local authorities, development partners, as well as diaspora organizations represented within FORIM.

The PRA/OSIM (Programme d'Appui aux Organisations de SolidaritÈ Internationale issues de l'Immigration) was founded in 2003 by FORIM and continues to support projects run by the diaspora in France. The PRA/OSIM is a national program for strengthening, supporting, co-financing and capitalizing on local development projects run by International Solidarity Organizations of immigrant origin (OSIM).

For the first edition of this inclusive approach of Club Dias'invest 237, the International Forum of Diaspora Investments in Cameroon (FIIDIC2023) brings together thirty associations of the Cameroonian diaspora worldwide. This forum aims to be a platform for meeting Cameroonian vital forces of the Diaspora and investors in favor of the economic influence of Cameroon.