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Mainstreaming diaspora for development with capacity building and expert deployment

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Capacity Development Lab

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/tools/knowledge-oriented.

After a successful first round in August 2020 and the recent launch of our actions, EUDiF is open once again to welcome new applications to the CDL. Please read the Guidelines for Application carefully before applying to the CDL.

*** DEADLINE EXTENDED ***

EUDiF will be accepting applications for the CDL in Arabic, English, French, Spanish and Russian until 29 August 23:59 CEST. EUDiF will only consider applications submitted via the online form.

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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 tools (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

Beneficiary

Association Franco-Libanaise des Professionnels de l’Informatique (AFPI)

Partners

Berytech

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

SDG's

Updates

Kicking off our first CDL action
CDL info sheet: AFPI x Berytech

Harnessing diaspora expertise for women entrepreneurship in Armenia

Beneficiary

Armenian General Benevolent Union Europe (AGBU Europe)

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

SDG's

Updates

CDL info sheet: AGBU Europe
CDL action update: Supporting women entrepreneurs in Armenia
Applicants
CDL applications must be made by a main applicant: partner countries (central or local authorities), diaspora organisations in Europe, and regional organisations.
Joint applications
We promote multi-stakeholder collaboration and therefore strongly encourage joint applications (e.g. a diaspora organisation as main applicant with its country of heritage central authority as a co-applicant).
Partners
Applications may include other actors in the diaspora-development ecosystem as partners (e.g. private sector; civil society organisations; academia). However, the request must be led by an eligible 'applicant’.
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Capacity Development Lab timeline
August 2020
Open registration for experts to support the implementation of capacity development actions
October 2020
Open applications for CDL
Autumn 2020 - Autumn 2022
Implementation and monitoring of pilot capacity development actions
Autumn 2022
Publications of results and lessons learnt
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Read about EUDiF capacity building activities here.
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CDL & DP4D open for business!
October 6, 2020
We are pleased to announce that calls are now open for our Capacity Development Lab and Diaspora Professionals 4 Development!...
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