The Council represents over 200 Australian organisations and, over the last three decades, has conducted advocacy work on a range of policy issues, with a strong focus on campaigning against the conditions of Australiaís offshore migrant processing system in Nauru and Manus Island.
The survey reports Visual Analytics toward Evidence-based Global Migration Policy Making and Governance explores xenophobia, barriers to social inclusion, gaps in service, promising practices, as well as challenges identified by organisations that serve migrants and refugees
ëGlobal Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalismí (GRFDT): GRFDT publishes a Research Monograph series, since January 2015, that seeks to promote a balanced migration narrative and counter misinformation about migrants and refugees. A media outreach platform, ëthe Migration Newsí, covers issues related to Migration and Diaspora. Also, the GRFDT ñ in preparation of the Digital Museum of Diaspora ? trained more than 120 interns in its various migration-related activities such as migration media, digital museum, and research.
Hacking Narratives is a campaign that promotes a transforming approach on narratives on migrants and refugees, through a microdocumentary film and a related podcast.
Hola America 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 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 LinkedIn for Moldovan Diaspora (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 Génération 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.