‘Migration and Development’ Association: Linking communities with their diaspora for local development

The association ‘Migration and Development’ is a civil society organization which has been engaged in integrated and participative development with migrants in southern Morocco for many years. Its engagement is anchored in the intention of enhancing the synergies between migrants and their territories in their community of origin. As such, the communities of origin are strongly involved in defining their needs and ensuring that migrants’ contributions are factored in when seeking to contribute to the development of communities of origin.

This project aims to create a local development community based on solidarity and to establish interactive learning spaces, bringing together migrants and their communities of origin. These connections allow the actors to generate, exchange on and utilize the required resources to respond to the needs of the community. Further, it strengthens the capacity of the actors to develop solutions to their challenges faced. The resources to exchange include in the broad sense information, competences, projects, networks and solidarity financing.

Specific objectives :
• Reinforce links between territories, local actors and their diaspora (namely in Europe) from the perspective of the communities of origin
• Establish an IT-platform to support the exchange of resources, expected to adjust the modalities linking the diaspora and their communities of origin by adapting it to the new generation of technologies.

In the course of this project, this approach will be tested and required learning will be drawn from the lessons for future programming.

http://www.migdev.org/ (in French)
https://www.eda.admin.ch/content/dam/countries/countries-content/morocc… (in French)

GFMD 2016 RT 1.2 "Connectivity and Migration"

Migrations et Développement Association, local authorities, communities and civil society, migrants;
National Government of Switzerland.