EUDiF

The Capacity Development Lab (CDL) aims to equip diaspora organisations in Europe, partner countries and regional organisations with skills, tools and knowledge, empowering them to, ultimately, foster diaspora engagement. To this end, the technical capacity development support provided by EUDiF is demand-driven, small scale and strictly skills and knowledge-oriented.

 

 

*** APPLICATIONS FOR CDL ARE NOW CLOSED ***

Areas of intervention:

  • Supporting partner countries in enabling diaspora engagement for development.
  • Empowering diaspora organisations based in Europe.
  • Fostering multi-stakeholder partnerships.

Types of support:

  • Organise knowledge transfer events (conduct trainings, facilitated workshops, seminars, webinars, etc.)
  • Conduct assessments, research and/or evaluations (conduct needs assessment, surveys, data collection, profiling, mapping, monitoring, etc.)
  • Develop strategic documents and/or training materials (draft laws, strategies, guidelines, manuals, curriculum, policies, etc.)
  • Provide know-how for visibility and communication activities (conduct awareness raising activities, create communication toolkits, etc.)
  • Facilitate networking and partnerships

EUDiF does not provide: grants/subsidy, soft and hard equipment, infrastructure, permanent/regular staff cost

Our actions

The first CDL call was opened in October 2020. We received many interesting applications and, after a rigorous selection process, the following actions were selected. Post-selection we entered into the pre-implementation phase during which we work together with the beneficiary and partners to finetune the action. It is a collaborative process that takes a little time, but leads to actions that we are all excited to see the results of.

Developing Lebanon’s tech sector through the Lebanese diaspora

Partners
Objective

To equip the Lebanese diaspora in France with knowledge, skills and tools to support the development of the Lebanese tech sector.

Duration

12 months

SDGs

Harnessing diaspora expertise for women entrepreneurship in Armenia

Objective

The action aims to empower AGBU staff in Europe and Armenia with the knowledge, tools and capacities they need to implement efficient and sustainable diaspora mentorship programmes for local women entrepreneurs in Armenia.

Duration

17 months

SDGs

Building a community of African diaspora leaders in Spain

Beneficiary
Partners
Objective

To support the building of a community of African diaspora leaders in Spain connected to social entrepreneurs in Africa.

Duration

10 months

SDGs

Transferring knowledge on climate change and circular economy from the Mexican diaspora

Objective

Create a structured scheme of knowledge generation and transfer between academic diaspora and Mexico and pilot it in climate change and circular economy education.

Duration

12 months

SDGs

Enhancing governmental capacity to attract expatriate investments into Egypt

Objective

Enhance GAFI’s understanding of Egyptian expatriate investments and enhance their institutional capacities to attract them sustainably into Egypt.

Duration

15 months

SDGs

Strengthening the intervention capacities of diaspora networks

Objective

Develop the capacities of accredited support operators and FORIM’s staff to support diaspora organisations in setting up and implementing development projects in their country of origin through cascade learning.

Duration

12 months

SDGs

Capacity development of diaspora to leverage funds for African SMEs

Objective

Develop the capacity of diaspora investors to raise and invest funds and financially support SMEs in target countries through offering skills, mentoring support and trainings in crowd-funding and crowd-lending campaigns.

Duration

12 Months

SDGs

Local heritage tourism as a connection to diaspora

Beneficiary
Objective

Increase the capacities and collaboration of the FCC to innovate and modernise heritage tourism in Freetown through diaspora expertise and contribution.

Duration

11 Months

SDGs

Strengthening regulatory foundations for diaspora institutional performance and coordination in Peru

Objective

Strengthen the regulatory foundations for improved institutional performance and coordination in the field of diaspora engagement in Peru.

Duration

10 months

SDGs

Preparing Guyana for digitalisation of services for the Guyanese diaspora

Objective

Prepare the Diaspora Unit to advocate for mainstreaming diaspora engagement into national digitalisation efforts.

Duration

12 months

SDGs

Capacity Development Lab timeline

October 2020
First call for applications to the Capacity Development Lab
January 2021
First wave of actions commence
June 2021
Second call for Capacity Development Lab applications
January 2022
Second wave of actions commence

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