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Florida, March 1, 2009:  The US based Caledon Group International (CALEGI) and the African Migration and Developme

nt Policy Centre (AMADPOC) based in Kenya have entered into strategic alliance focused on providing state of the art technical assistance to the implementation of migration and social development programmes as well as related capacity building in the southern Africa region.

 

In a joint statement issued today by the Executive Director of CALEGI Mr. Oye Ajayi and the Founder and Executive Director of AMADOC, Professor John Oucho, the two organizations pledge to have the alliance foster access to an expanded community of high-level multidisciplinary experts and specialists in population and development, including the migration and development policy domain.

 

About CALEGI

The US based and registered Caledon Group International (CALEGI) provides technical assistance and support in the policy development, capacity building, research, advocacy and communication, implementation and management aspects of social development programmes in Africa including all the primary and sub themes of population and development through its community and network of high level, field tested experts and specialists on the African continent and in the Diaspora as well as through partnerships with other technical organizations of similar mission and vision in Africa.

 

 

 

 

PARTNERSHIP IN THE RESEARCH PROGRAMME CONSORTIUM

AMADPOC is one of the partners in the Research Programme Consortium (RPC), known as Migrating out of Poverty Consortium, which is committed to providing research evidence expected to contribute toimproving policies that affect the lives and well-being of poor migrants, their communities and countries. Building on the successful experience of the Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty (Migration DRC) of the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom, the RPC will over the a six-year period engage in a range of demand-driven and evidence-based innovative research, capacity building and communications activities.

The key objectives are fivefold: maintaining a firm focus on poverty in all its forms, including lack of education, poor health and gender inequality, as well as income poverty; building from the understanding that migration is beneficial on average for poverty reduction and inclusive growth, and establishing why migration reduces poverty in some places and aggravates poverty in others; promoting greater understanding of the transformatory potential of migration on poverty over time; supporting and encouraging efforts to improve the quality of data on migration, with a particular focus on data linking migration and poverty; and

 

making a strong policy focus and multi-disciplinary approach, orientated in particular to the policy choices ofpoor countries, and fostering policies that are directly aimed to ameliorate conditions of the poor, specially women. As AMAPOC serves the Greater Horn of Africa (the Great Lakes Region, East Africa and the Horn of Africa) which has witnessed the least research on migration, it is a Core Partner to coordinate the work of RPC Associate Partners in the GHA. It will provide oversight and direction on priority research areas, recruitment and supervision of young as well as seasoned researchers and, above all, communication of research results to a wider audience of planners, policy-makers, decision-makers, development partners and other migration practitioners. Progress in this research endeavour will be announced from time to time on AMADPOC’s website.

AMADPOC and four Associate Partners in the GHA will concentrate on “migration drivers” which facilitate both the inception and perpetuation of migration, which operate at the macro-level (e.g. the labour market or relating to broad patterns of conflict and security) and at the meso-level (e.g. social networks, common interest groups and recruitment agencies; sometimes, these factors tend to perpetuate or mediate migration, rather than causing it. Conversely, individual and household characteristics such as gender, education and age, while important in migration, are not necessarily drivers in themselves; rather, the interplay between them and broader drivers shapes migration outcomes. There are also structural factors that influence migration behaviour and outcomes in origin, destination and transit areas.
Ultimately, the research products of Associate Partners must of necessity satisfy the needs of “Boundary Partners” who include national governments, NGOs, the civil society and development partners with a stake in various aspects of migration work in the Greater Horn of Africa or between this region and other regions of the world.