Theresa R. Fianko is the Founder and Managing Editor of the global social impact broadcasting platform - Diaspora Digital News. An Integrated Media/Marketing Communications professional, she has lived and worked in the diaspora for over a decade and is committed to the cause of balanced, informative, sustainable and ethical journalism. Theresa is a co-author of “Empowering Global Diasporas in…

IOM Belgium’s Diaspora Engagements team is proud to launch its ninth episode of the Diaspora Insights Podcast series! In this episode we welcome Mariam Harutyunyan, an inspiring entrepreneur, inclusion advocate, and much more. She talks about her brand KinArmat, through which she wants to empower women and foster dialogue. And as an executive director at A Seat At The Table, she highlights the…

 Ana Gutiérrez es una peruana migrante actualmente viviendo en Israel y desarrollando sus estudios de doctorado. Ana es fundadora de Granadilla Podcast: peruanas rompiéndola en el extranjero. Un espacio para crear redes de contacto y apoyo entre las peruanas en la diáspora, y visibilizar los éxitos de peruanas en el extranjero. A través de Granadilla Podcast, Ana busca inspirar e informar a…

The IOM Diaspora Mapping Toolkit builds on the rich experience of more than 150 diaspora mappings conducted in various contexts, this toolkit presents a systematic, comprehensive yet highly flexible and agile approach to mapping the diaspora in different contexts. By following clear guidelines for collecting and analyzing data about diaspora communities, policymakers will be able to develop more…

Meet Mandy Preville-Findlay, a leader and cofounder of Beyond Iyanola. Beyond Iyanola is an organization of Saint Lucians in the UK created in 2018 with the purpose of advocating and preserving art and culture from the St Lucia diaspora.

Meet David Kpondehou, a young entrepreneur from West Africa in the Benin Republic currently in Japan. He aims to empower the individual through skills-building, education, values-driven action to build self-reliance and entrepreneurship..

IOM Belgium’s Diaspora Engagement team shares the fifth episode of its Diaspora Insights Podcast series. Their guest this time is Jimmy Nzally, a member of the Gambian diaspora, Ph.D. student, activist, and founder of the VUB Africa Student Community (ASCOM). In this episode, they talk about VUB ASCOM and the role it plays in African students’ lives in Belgium, and about the…

The Impact of Connecting Diaspora for Development (CD4D) Based on the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance (MGSoG) evaluation on the CD4D project, IOM NL has created this animation video. CD4D facilitates temporary assignments by diaspora members in selected countries of origin. Through sharing knowledge and expertise at host institutions, diaspora experts positively contribute to development…