by Gera Voorrips, Programme Manager Remittances, ING Payments Retail Europe
[ING Group] ING remittances study sheds light on latest innovations in products and networks.This inventory of the remittances market presents an analyst’s view on the most important remittance product types as well as the main players and the networks used to channel remittances. Also, the latest [...]
Le Fonds international de développement agricole (FIDA), la Banque africaine de développement (BAD) et la Banque interaméricaine de développement (BID), en collaboration avec le Dialogue interaméricain (IAD), ont le plaisir d’annoncer la tenue du Forum international sur les envois de fonds 2009, à Tunis, les 22 et 23 octobre.
Le Forum 2009 est le troisième d’une [...]
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the African Development Bank (AfDB), in collaboration with the Inter-American Dialogue (IAD) are pleased to organize the Global Forum on Remittances 2009, to be held in Tunis on 22-23 October.
The Global Forum on Remittances is the third in a series of groundbreaking conferences dedicated to highlighting the importance [...]
Young People We Care (YPWC), with support from TakingITGlobal and UNICEF Voices of Youth, is organizing an E-Consultation in preparation for the 3rd Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) taking place in Greece in November 2009. The 4-week E-Consultation - from Sunday, 27th September to Saturday, 17th October 2009 - will collect youth responses [...]
Last month, the World Bank hosted an International Conference on Diaspora and Development (Washington DC, July 13-14, 2009). All the papers and presentations are now available from the Conference website.
Moreover, videos of all the sessions are available on line. To view the opening presentation of the Conference and the Update on the CSD/ GFMD click [...]
With the support of the Agence Française de Développement and the World Bank Migration and Development Program, the Second International Migration and Development Conference took place in Washington the 10-11 September 2009.
The conference brought together some of the world’s top academics and researchers in the migration field. Speakers presented their recent research findings on the [...]
by Manuel Orozco and Anna Ferro
[Microlinks] The impact of the global economic crisis on migrants and money transfers is having adverse effects in various parts of the world. However, there are also countries, such as the Philippines, where migrants steadily continue to send money. Estimates of the decline in remittances have been readjusted to reflect [...]
The UNDP is pleased to inform that the new Handbook on Planning, Monitoring and Evaluating for Development Results was launched by the Administrator on September 15th, 2009.
This Handbook is an updated edition of the 2002 edition of ‘Handbook on Monitoring and Evaluation for Results’. It seeks to address new directions in planning, monitoring and evaluation [...]
Il Ministero dell’Interno, in collaborazione con l’Associazione Nazionale Comuni Italiani(ANCI) e con il supporto scientifico di Nomisma, organizza la Seconda Conferenza Nazionale sull’Immigrazione.
La Conferenza promuove un confronto concreto tra i diversi portatori di interesse, italiani ed europei, pubblici e privati, che sono chiamati ad accompagnare le trasformazioni che l’aumento della multiculturalità induce nella composizione [...]
Nairobi, Kenya, 15 September 2009 - The United Nations Development Programme Somalia (UNDP Somalia) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched today a joint initiative to tap into key technical expertise among the Somali diaspora in a bid to help rebuild key governance foundations in parts of the country.
The Qualified Expatriate Somali Technical Support [...]
