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Mainstreaming diaspora for development with capacity building and expert deployment

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‘We Connect’ programmes

Barbados

Caribbean

2020

The Barbados Investment and Development Corporation government agency launched its three main programmes in 2020 (Bajans Connect, Innovate Barbados, and Bloom) under the theme “We Connect”. This initiative integrates these three programmes under a common strategy focused on engaging the diaspora’s potential as an export market as well as its potential contribution to Barbados’ development through the exchange of ideas, expertise, and investment. Innovate Barbados and Bloom focus on brainstorming and incubating innovative solutions to development challenges and their particular focus on the blue and green economies is indicative of interests to promote diaspora involvement these sectors.