GCRF Inclusive Societies - Migration for Inclusive African Growth
Lead Research Organisation:
The Open University
Department Name: Faculty of Arts and Social Sci (FASS)
Abstract
After decades of pessimism some African economies have recently experienced the fastest growth rates in the world, though this growth has not yet trickled down to the poorest. The proposed research aims to address one aspect of the challenge of transforming national economic growth into more inclusive growth; namely migration. An outcome of the optimism around Africa is new and more diverse flows of migrants within and to the faster growing African economies. Yet we know very little about these migration flows and whether they offer discernable benefits for African development and redistributive potential. The overarching aim of the project is to understand whether and to what extent recent migration within and to Africa is contributing to more sustainable and inclusive growth on the continent and to enable policy-makers and practitioners to harness this knowledge for more inclusive growth.
The theoretical and policy agenda to which this research speaks is the recognition that migration is a key channel for promoting (inter)national trade, investment and other kinds of financial resources, and transferring technology, skills and knowledge. Our hypothesis is that these contemporary migrant communities have the potential to make important contributions to sustainable and inclusive growth, not only in their countries of origin but also in the African countries where they settle. To assess whether and how such benefits may be occurring we will undertake research in 4 African countries - Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and Mozambique - that are on the OECD DAC list. This will examine a range of contemporary migrant groups (including European, emerging power, African diaspora, intra-African, and internal) and examine those channels through which they may contribute to inclusive growth in Africa. The sectoral focus will be manufacturing, IT and services since these are sectors where African participation has a higher potential for more inclusive growth. The outcomes will be a more robust sense of the value of inclusive growth as an analytical concept alongside the first multi-country comparative study of contemporary migrant communities on the continent.
The project is also fundamentally concerned with re-shaping policy and practice to support more inclusive growth. It arises out of an ESRC GCRF Network grant that has cemented a strong network of migration researchers with national, continental and international expertise and policy reach. They are the African Migration and Development Policy Centre (Kenya), Network for Migration Research on Africa (Nigeria), The Centre for Migration Studies, Univ. of Ghana and The Centre for Policy Analysis, Eduardo Mondlane Univ. (Mozambique). The current network has engaged, through national workshops, with policy-makers, researchers and migrant businesses to identify learning needs and knowledge gaps. This co-design process informs the current bid and its impact activities. Policy-makers will benefit from improved information about the nature of these new migrant business communities, as well as through capacity building to help officials understand the issues and data sources better. We will also deliver training to African journalists so they can report on migration issues more effectively. Our African co-Is have delivered similar training to officials and journalists on a small scale but this project offers the opportunity to scale this up. Business people from the four African and the migrants' source countries will benefit through networking events organised by local business associations. The general public will benefit from better-informed debate about the costs and benefits of migration. Academics across a range of disciplines will benefit from new knowledge of the nature of these flows and impacts, as well as a wider venture of rethinking debates on the role of 'Southern' actors in international development.
The theoretical and policy agenda to which this research speaks is the recognition that migration is a key channel for promoting (inter)national trade, investment and other kinds of financial resources, and transferring technology, skills and knowledge. Our hypothesis is that these contemporary migrant communities have the potential to make important contributions to sustainable and inclusive growth, not only in their countries of origin but also in the African countries where they settle. To assess whether and how such benefits may be occurring we will undertake research in 4 African countries - Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and Mozambique - that are on the OECD DAC list. This will examine a range of contemporary migrant groups (including European, emerging power, African diaspora, intra-African, and internal) and examine those channels through which they may contribute to inclusive growth in Africa. The sectoral focus will be manufacturing, IT and services since these are sectors where African participation has a higher potential for more inclusive growth. The outcomes will be a more robust sense of the value of inclusive growth as an analytical concept alongside the first multi-country comparative study of contemporary migrant communities on the continent.
The project is also fundamentally concerned with re-shaping policy and practice to support more inclusive growth. It arises out of an ESRC GCRF Network grant that has cemented a strong network of migration researchers with national, continental and international expertise and policy reach. They are the African Migration and Development Policy Centre (Kenya), Network for Migration Research on Africa (Nigeria), The Centre for Migration Studies, Univ. of Ghana and The Centre for Policy Analysis, Eduardo Mondlane Univ. (Mozambique). The current network has engaged, through national workshops, with policy-makers, researchers and migrant businesses to identify learning needs and knowledge gaps. This co-design process informs the current bid and its impact activities. Policy-makers will benefit from improved information about the nature of these new migrant business communities, as well as through capacity building to help officials understand the issues and data sources better. We will also deliver training to African journalists so they can report on migration issues more effectively. Our African co-Is have delivered similar training to officials and journalists on a small scale but this project offers the opportunity to scale this up. Business people from the four African and the migrants' source countries will benefit through networking events organised by local business associations. The general public will benefit from better-informed debate about the costs and benefits of migration. Academics across a range of disciplines will benefit from new knowledge of the nature of these flows and impacts, as well as a wider venture of rethinking debates on the role of 'Southern' actors in international development.
Planned Impact
This project will have early impacts, derived from the completion of research, and longer-term impacts accrued from the influence of research evidence on policies and corporate strategies in selected African countries, the UK and other emerging economies.
Early impacts will arise from a detailed understanding of the different motivations, roles, and impacts of migrant groups in our case study countries. To date we have some data on Chinese migrants but our understanding of migrants from other emerging powers, Europe, regionally and internally is poor. The completion of this project will provide an insight into the dynamics of these different migration flows and their impacts on inclusive growth. The beneficiaries and benefits are:
1. Policy-makers and NGOs in the African case study countries and internationally. The benefits will be greater awareness of new migration flows into Africa and a better understanding of the potential impacts on inclusive growth. This will be achieved through the advisory group that has direct input into policy channels, and targeted workshops and policy briefs during the life of the project.
2. The migrant communities in the 4 case study countries. Experience from ESRC-funded research with Chinese migrants in Africa suggests that knowledge is a barrier to investment. The research will provide networking opportunities for the different migrant groups through local events organised by business associations.
3. The general public. There is much misinformation about African development and the potential of migration. The research will contribute to informed debate around how new migration flows affect African development. The researchers, and the OU more generally, have unrivalled experience in engaging publics through diverse media. We will engage publics through blogs, newspaper articles, and a communication strategy developed with the OU's media team.
4. Academics working in the fields of international development, human geography, migration studies, African studies, and international relations. To date most migration and development work has focused on 'South' to 'North' migration flows and very little has examined 'South-South' or 'North-South' flows even though these constitute the majority of the flows. We will test the conceptual linkages between migration and inclusive growth, and contribute new empirical evidence about these flows through presentations, existing networks, books, and journal papers.
Longer-term impacts build on our empirical endeavour of understanding new migrant groups and their impacts on inclusive growth in Africa:
5. Policy-makers in the African case study countries. Building on the shorter-term impacts we intend to provide longer-term capacity building of African officials engaged in migration-related areas. Through a suite of core teaching resources delivered in face-to-face training events by our African partners we will strengthen the ability of officials to understand and make decisions around migration.
6. Policy-makers and NGOs outside Africa. A report analysing innovative strategies for harnessing migration for inclusive growth will be distributed to policy makers working in UN organisations (UNCTAD, IOM), multilateral agencies (World Bank), national organisations (e.g. DFID), and NGOs (e.g. AFFORD, ADEPT).
7. African publics and the media. Train African journalists in how to understand and report migration stories so as to generate more informed and balanced public debate.
8. Academics working in multiple disciplines. While our early findings will be theoretically driven, they will not explicitly seek to push forward the wider framings of international development. Through a monograph published within two years of the project's end we will shape emerging debates around migration and development. A submission to the UK Data Service and creation of an African-based data repository will also ensure that the data is available for future researchers.
Early impacts will arise from a detailed understanding of the different motivations, roles, and impacts of migrant groups in our case study countries. To date we have some data on Chinese migrants but our understanding of migrants from other emerging powers, Europe, regionally and internally is poor. The completion of this project will provide an insight into the dynamics of these different migration flows and their impacts on inclusive growth. The beneficiaries and benefits are:
1. Policy-makers and NGOs in the African case study countries and internationally. The benefits will be greater awareness of new migration flows into Africa and a better understanding of the potential impacts on inclusive growth. This will be achieved through the advisory group that has direct input into policy channels, and targeted workshops and policy briefs during the life of the project.
2. The migrant communities in the 4 case study countries. Experience from ESRC-funded research with Chinese migrants in Africa suggests that knowledge is a barrier to investment. The research will provide networking opportunities for the different migrant groups through local events organised by business associations.
3. The general public. There is much misinformation about African development and the potential of migration. The research will contribute to informed debate around how new migration flows affect African development. The researchers, and the OU more generally, have unrivalled experience in engaging publics through diverse media. We will engage publics through blogs, newspaper articles, and a communication strategy developed with the OU's media team.
4. Academics working in the fields of international development, human geography, migration studies, African studies, and international relations. To date most migration and development work has focused on 'South' to 'North' migration flows and very little has examined 'South-South' or 'North-South' flows even though these constitute the majority of the flows. We will test the conceptual linkages between migration and inclusive growth, and contribute new empirical evidence about these flows through presentations, existing networks, books, and journal papers.
Longer-term impacts build on our empirical endeavour of understanding new migrant groups and their impacts on inclusive growth in Africa:
5. Policy-makers in the African case study countries. Building on the shorter-term impacts we intend to provide longer-term capacity building of African officials engaged in migration-related areas. Through a suite of core teaching resources delivered in face-to-face training events by our African partners we will strengthen the ability of officials to understand and make decisions around migration.
6. Policy-makers and NGOs outside Africa. A report analysing innovative strategies for harnessing migration for inclusive growth will be distributed to policy makers working in UN organisations (UNCTAD, IOM), multilateral agencies (World Bank), national organisations (e.g. DFID), and NGOs (e.g. AFFORD, ADEPT).
7. African publics and the media. Train African journalists in how to understand and report migration stories so as to generate more informed and balanced public debate.
8. Academics working in multiple disciplines. While our early findings will be theoretically driven, they will not explicitly seek to push forward the wider framings of international development. Through a monograph published within two years of the project's end we will shape emerging debates around migration and development. A submission to the UK Data Service and creation of an African-based data repository will also ensure that the data is available for future researchers.
Organisations
- The Open University (Lead Research Organisation)
- Government of Ghana (Collaboration)
- Institute of Developing Economies in Japan (Collaboration)
- Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Collaboration)
- University of the Witwatersrand (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA (Collaboration)
- Bioversity International (Collaboration)
- London South Bank University (Collaboration)
- Kyoto University of Foreign Studies (Collaboration)
Publications
Aderanti Adepoju
(2021)
Mobility and migration data in 2021: Perspectives from Africa
in Migration Policy Practice
Aderanti Adepoju
(2020)
Nigeria Migration Brief V
Anamoa-Pokoo, S.
(2020)
Remittances and social expenditures of migrant households in the Ekumfi District
Anamoa-Pokoo, S.
(2018)
Remittance flow to households of internal migrants in Ekumfi District of the Central Region, Ghana
in Ghana Social Science Journal
Deshingkar, P.
(2019)
Victims of trafficking and modern slavery or agents of change? Migrants, brokers, and the state in Ghana and Myanmar
in Journal of the British Academy
International Organisation For Migration
(2020)
Africa Migration Report
Jospeh Teye
(2019)
Ambiguity and symbolism in the implementation of the ECOWAS Free Movement Protocol: Evidence from Ghana and Sierra Leone
in African Human Mobility Review
Kyei-Arthur, F
(2022)
Exploring positive experiences of primary and secondary caregivers of older persons in resource-limited urban settings in Accra, Ghana
in PLoS ONE
Raghuram, P.
(2022)
Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Refugee Studies
Raimundo I
(2022)
AFRICAN MIGRANTS TOWARD INCLUSIVE GROWTH IN MOZAMBIQUE: A CASE STUDY OF THE CITY OF MAPUTO
in Journal of Inclusive Cities and Built Environment
Raimundo I
(2020)
O CICLO VICIOSO DE DESLOCAMENTOS FORÇADOS E A FORMAÇÃO DE ESPAÇOS INCOMPLETOS EM MOÇAMBIQUE
in Geo UERJ
Teye J
(2022)
Gendered dynamics of the flow and use of migrant remittances in Northern Ghana
in African Geographical Review
Teye J
(2022)
Chinese Migration to Ghana: Challenging the Orthodoxy on Characterizing Migrants and Reasons for Migration
in Ghana Journal of Geography
Teye, J.
(2022)
Chinese Migration to Ghana: Challenging the Orthodoxy on Characterizing Migrants and Reasons for Migration
in Ghana Journal of Geography
Yeboah T
(2020)
The ECOWAS Free Movement Protocol and Diversity of Experiences of Different Categories of Migrants: A Qualitative Study
in International Migration
Title | MIAG website |
Description | Project website launched February 2020 |
Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Impact | Not known |
URL | https://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/migration-inclusive-african-growth/ |
Title | Online course |
Description | The MIAG team received £20,000 of GCRF QR money to produce a short course aimed at researchers and policy makers working on migration. It will be hosted on the Open University's OpenLearnCreate platform. |
Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Impact | Not known. |
URL | https://www.open.edu/openlearncreate/ |
Title | Short course on migration |
Description | This free, 12-hour course looks at the nature of rising migration to ask how migrant entrepreneurship contributes to the growth and development of Africa's economies. It does so by exploring 'inclusive growth', a notion that has become popular among multilateral agencies as an answer to deepening inequalities but that, to date, lacks a unifying understanding and sustained academic engagement. We will consider what more inclusionary growth is and what it looks like in relation to migration. The course has been developed by the Migration for Inclusive African Growth project at The Open University in partnership with African researchers at African Migration and Development Policy Centre (Kenya), Network for Migration Research on Africa (Nigeria), The Centre for Migration Studies, University of Ghana and The Centre for Policy Analysis, Eduardo Mondlane University (Mozambique). Completion of the course will lead to a course badge and statement of |
Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Impact | The course is aimed at researchers and officials working on migration in Africa. The course only went live in mid-January 2022 so it is too early to judge how much impact it has had. |
URL | https://www.open.edu/openlearncreate/course/view.php?id=8163 |
Description | The project aimed to examine the links between new migration flows within and to Africa and the outcomes of these for growth. High-level secondary data from international and national sources did not point conclusively to any direct link between immigration to our 4 case study countries and inclusive growth. Broad patterns were in keeping with expectations insofar as growth episodes and investments in wider development provisions tended to be linked to natural resource demand on international markets. Within these patterns women and youth were consistently less included in growth. The qualitative data and the business survey revealed more fine-grained ways in which inclusive growth was being engendered by immigrant businesses Different actors have very different understandings of what 'inclusive' growth means. For national citizens it is about getting employment in foreign firms; for larger, foreign-owned business it is about contributing to host country economic growth; for officials a lot was around human capital and skills; and for civil society organisations it was a rounded contribution to well-being Immigrant business can bring both positive and negative competition but this varies by sector and whether the host entity is a consumer or producer. Immigrant businesses can also bring skills transfer but, again, this varies by sector. Diaspora businesses brings entrepreneurship in sectors like IT but it is questionable how widely the benefits are spread with many diasporans catering to other diasporans and/or middle-classes consumers. Governance issues hinder inclusive growth. Access to credit locally is very difficult, immigrants need 'connections' to navigate rules and regulations which is worse in some countries and for some groups, local bureaucracy is fragmented and confusing, while petty corruption is rife, and taxes and utilities are costly Migration policy is developed but unevenly implemented - its implementation varies by ministry and the group targeted. Governments are aware that these immigrant businesses are potential sources of tax. Feeling among immigrants that such policies are biased towards big business. In terms of achievements beyond the data and its analysis the team persevered against the backdrop of the pandemic to gather a large amount of good quality data. The team has worked well across countries and links between African researchers have been strengthened. Capacities have been built through co-publishing, working on online training courses, and learning new research methods. |
Exploitation Route | We hope that policy-makers will use the analysis to find ways to encourage smaller, immigrant businesses in certain sectors. They do have positive contributions to make to local economic and social development but many actors see such businesses as a drain. Our mixed method approach to unpacking migration's contribution to inclusive growth was ambitious and could be improved so we hope other researchers can find innovative methods for understanding if and how migrants bring about inclusive growth. Our focus on North-to-South and South-to-South migration flows bucked the trend of looking at migration to the global North so we hope that others will continue to look at what are important but undervalued migration flows. |
Sectors | Government Democracy and Justice |
Description | The findings have been used to influence various policy processes as well as the capacity of researchers and officials with a migration remit: 1) Various members of the team in Africa have recently served, or are serving on, committees that develop national policy and legislation around migration and development. The project's findings around diaspora and employment have fed into these processes. 2) The findings and methodologies have been used in two, free online training courses co-developed with the Open University. These are aimed at officials and policy researchers who work on migration and development issues. |
First Year Of Impact | 2020 |
Sector | Government, Democracy and Justice |
Impact Types | Policy & public services |
Description | Development of a 'Diaspora Engagement Policy' for Government of Ghana |
Geographic Reach | Africa |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
Impact | The processes ongoing with the Ghanaian cabinet examining the policy for adoption and the University of Ghana consultants are to make one last presentation on the policy to key stakeholders |
URL | https://diasporaaffairs.gov.gh/tag/diaspora-engagement-policy/ |
Description | Development of national migration policy of Kenya |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
Description | Diaspora engagement |
Geographic Reach | Africa |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
Impact | Hlped refine national policy on engaging Ghana's diaspora |
Description | Ghana National Migration Policy |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
Impact | Centre for Migration Studies, led by Joseph Teye, conducted a situational analysis of labour migration in Ghana. Based on the findings, the Centre drafted a national labour migration policy for governing labour migration from and into Ghana. |
Description | Global Compact |
Geographic Reach | Africa |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Impact | Helped implementation of Global Compact at the ECOWAS level |
Description | Mozambican diaspora policy |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Description | Mozambique Diaspora Policy |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Impact | Developed new policy |
Description | National Labour Migration Policy for Malawi |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
Description | National Migration Policy for Zambia |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
Description | National Migration Policy for Zimbabwe |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Impact | Developed new policy |
Description | Reintegration programme |
Geographic Reach | Africa |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
Impact | The consultation engaged the public and other stakeholders in developing policies around reintegration of return migrants to Ghana |
Title | Framework for Inclusive Growth |
Description | Development of a comprehensive new framework for understanding and analysing inclusive growth. Inclusive Growth (IG) has become a framing concept in development policy (e.g. OECD, ADB) but existing frameworks often take a national level perspective and perpetuate the tendency to focus on measures of growth in terms of economic outcomes. There is little systematic or concerted effort to unpack the nature of inclusion, development outcomes as social, political or environmental benefits or to consider inclusive growth as a process. MIAG has developed a comprehensive framework that aims to address these deficits and can be applied as an analytical lens to the data the project is collecting. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | Framework has been developed and is now being applied across the mix data to support the analysis. |
Title | Nvivo training for African co-Is |
Description | The MIAG project has generated a great deal of qualitative data which we will analyse using the Nvivo software. The majority of our African co-Is had not used this software so we organised 4 training sessions for them with a follow up series of clinics with an experience Nvivo analyst. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | Data set analysed |
Title | Secondary data audit |
Description | In each of the four African countries that are part of our network we are conducting a thorough audit of existing data sources on migration and inclusive growth. As set out in the application, some of these sources exists but are not currently utilised in migration research (e.g. some immigration data). The audit will allow us to identify the quality and usability of this data, and clarify the gaps in knowledge that our primary research can fill. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | As yet the audit is for the research team only. During the project we hope to create an online data archive of these existing data sources. |
Title | Business Firm Survey of SMEs |
Description | This dataset comprises 1200 survey questionnaires (300 for each of the following countries: Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique and Nigeria). Respondents are SME migrant business owners and entrepreneurs capturing their experiences of migration, business set up and operations in these countries. The sample for each country includes migrants from six nationality groups: 2 (global north, (British or Portuguese and diaspora returnees), 2 (global south - Indian and Chinese), 2 African (regional to each country). |
Type Of Material | Data handling & control |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | Data is currently being analysed to inform project findings and outcomes |
Title | Inclusive Growth Indicator Dataset |
Description | Compiled a dataset using a range of secondary quants sources which includes data that can be used to map growth across of set of inclusive growth indicators for (Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique and Nigeria). |
Type Of Material | Data handling & control |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | The dataset has allowed the project team to plot, analyse and describe growth within these four African countries over the past 20 years across of set of 37 individual indicators that, in combination, can be used to understand the inclusiveness of growth patterns and trajectories, and the relationship of this group to migration. |
Description | 1. Qualitative research on Informal Cross Border Traders in Mozambique: The challenges of International Cross Border Traders Association under COVID-19- Research collaboration with the African Studies Center of the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies under the project. 2) I also was involved on Research on Natural Resources depletion in the context of International Migration |
Organisation | Kyoto University of Foreign Studies |
Country | Japan |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | 1) For this particular project I conducted interviews with the President of Association of Cross Borders Traders and their associates and a paper was published @ Mozambique and COVID-19 in 2020: From the Perspectives of ICBT in Greater Maputo- Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO) http://www.ide.go.jp , by Akiyo Aminaka (2020) 2) The forest depletion I published 'International migration dynamics in Mozambique and natural resource exploration: Gold and forest predation. ASC-TUFS Working Papers Volume 1 (2021). http://repository.tufs.ac.jp/handle/10108/99993' DOI 10.15026/99993 3) Public lecturer: Tokyo University of Foreign Affairs (TUFA), African Studies Centre Connect with Africa: Portuguese speaking country Topic class: 'Mozambique Forty-Six Years of Forced Movements and Internal Displacements: War, Cyclones and Floods' Wednesday 8th December 2021 from AM9:00-10:15 Mozambique Time (16:00-17:15 Japan Time) |
Collaborator Contribution | The contribution with this center is diversified. Inês Raimundo attended a joint conference with PIASS-TUFS Joint Seminar on Resource Management and Development Protestant Institute of Arts and Social Sciences (PIASS) and TUFS (Tokyo University of Foreign Affairs), Huye, Rwanda 18-19 February 2020 Public lecturers- I did a public lecturer in December 2021 and I have been invited for another public lecture on Migration to be delivered in the month of December. |
Impact | The collaboration is multi-disciplinary as is made of geographers, historians, development scientists, diplomacy, linguists and environmentalists |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Africa Academy for Migration and Research |
Organisation | University of the Witwatersrand |
Department | African Centre for Migration and Society |
Country | South Africa |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Equipping and refurbishment of multi-use conference room with Video conference tools for Post-graduate studies of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. |
Collaborator Contribution | Besides the equipping and refurbishment of the multi-use conference room, the partnership intends to give support to post-graduate training activities and research. |
Impact | Geography, migrant experts, sociologists, lawyers. |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Fragility, Conflict and Migration |
Organisation | Bioversity International |
Country | Italy |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Ines Raimundo is collaborating with ABI & CIAT |
Collaborator Contribution | Research |
Impact | none |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | Informal Cross Border Traders |
Organisation | Tokyo University of Foreign Studies |
Country | Japan |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Ines Raimundo is part of a collaboration with the Centre for African Studies of Tokyo University of Foreign Affairs. |
Collaborator Contribution | Research on impact of Covid on cross border traders |
Impact | None to date |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | Institute of Developing Economies Japan External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO) |
Organisation | Institute of Developing Economies in Japan |
Country | Japan |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | This was largely down to our Mozambican partners |
Collaborator Contribution | Qualitative research on Informal Cross Border Traders in Mozambique: The challenges of ICBT association Associação Mukhero under COVID-19 |
Impact | None to date |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | NDPC toolkit |
Organisation | Government of Ghana |
Department | National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) |
Country | Ghana |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Through CMS, Ghana |
Collaborator Contribution | Centre for Migration Studies, led by Joseph Teye, developed a toolkit to be used by planners at Ministries and District Assemblies to incorporate migration into development planning in Ghana. Based on this toolkit, training workshops were organised for Planning officials and Ministries and District Assemblies on mainstreaming migration into development planning. |
Impact | The main output is the Toolkit which was printed and distributed to ministries and district assemblies to be used in developing their annual plans. |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | The Academy for African Migration Research (AAMR) |
Organisation | University of the Witwatersrand |
Department | African Centre for Migration and Society |
Country | South Africa |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | This research project is made of African countries with different background. There are Lusophone, Anglophone, Francophone and Ethiopia with migration differences made by their historical background. While Mozambique a Southern African country colonized by Portugal her history was market by labour migration to South Africa and Zimbabwe, this constituted an asset to the project as internally Mozambican scholars and graduate and post-graduate students have collected data on labour migration, internal migration and international migration. So, our contribution was basically to add information about migration research projects; an updated current migration in Mozambique; the stage of Migration Policy and Population Policy and migration networking research groups that the center is involved with. |
Collaborator Contribution | As partner their role was to discuss among us migration study's needs (where there lack) research methodology that we have used in different research projects on migration. Also, they discussed with us the responses to the following subtopics based on Mozambican reality as sending labour migrants to South Africa, Zimbabwe and Swaziland: i. Exploring governance responses to diverse forms of international migration in Africa; ii. Understanding the contemporary humanitarian context and its implications for responding to migration across the continent; iii. Understanding the blurring of global migration governance and health security agendas; iv. Understanding the impacts of migration on African cities and linkages for a sustainable future; v. Exploring how State and societal responses are undermining or supporting the use of social networks and social capital amongst migrant groups as sites for resilience and growth; and vi. Mapping the current concerns in migration research approaches in Africa and exploration of alternatives. |
Impact | 1. A Postdoctoral student has commenced her program at ACMS (Academy for African Migration Research at Wits University) and will support AAMR (Africa Academy for Migration Research). 2. A Doctoral researcher at ACMS, who will be supporting activities at the ARUA (The African Research Universities Alliance) Centre of Excellence in Migration & Mobility, including the AAMR. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Training Manual |
Organisation | Government of Ghana |
Department | Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations |
Country | Ghana |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Through CMS |
Collaborator Contribution | Centre for Migration Studies, led by Joseph Teye, designed training manual based on labour migration policy and used it to train planning officials of 34 institutions on how to incorporate migration into annual action plans. Based on ongoing project links between migration and inclusive growth was emphasised throughout the training. |
Impact | Annual plans of 34 Ministries and agencies which incorporated migration issues |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Urban Migration for Good |
Organisation | London South Bank University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Dr Ines Raimundo is now part of a network involving London South Bank University, Cardiff University, Manchester Metropolitan University, and National Institute of Health (INS) of Mozambique. |
Collaborator Contribution | Dr Raimundo is producing a study entitled Urban Migration for Good - from Forced Displacement to a Good City. The Case of Cabo Delgado |
Impact | None to date |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | partnership with the Global Engagement Network on Internal Displacement, which is an interdisciplinary network on Displacement, Conflict and Protection. Currently is focusing on Africa. |
Organisation | University of Pretoria |
Department | Centre for Human Rights |
Country | South Africa |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Participation in a training course organized by Professor David Cantor from the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, UK Attended the Colloquium on Internal Displacement in Africa a paper entitled: The Uganda International Displaced Persons Policy and its Implications in Mozambique, 2021. |
Collaborator Contribution | We are working toward the introduction of Refugees studies on the University curriculum. |
Impact | Attendance to the Colloquium of Africa in Internal Displacements Draft of a paper entitled: African Migrants and refugees: access to Labour Market in Mozambique Virtual meetings on IDPS and Health organized by Professor Cantor from the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, UK |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | 4th National Leaders Conference on Population and Development |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | The conference focused on "Investing in human capital for the achievement of Kenya's Vision 2030". Dr. Oucho participated in the thematic area of Migration, Mobility and Urbanization where she provided some perspectives on the impact migrants have on the inclusive growth of the country. Migration is an aspect being discussed within the National Council of Population and Development especially within the context of the developing Urban Policy. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.kenpop.or.ke/images/downloads/Programme_4th_National_Leaders_Population_Development_Conf... |
Description | African skilled migration: Gender and policy perspectives |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | A paper entitled 'African skilled migration: Gender and policy perspectives' was presented by a team from the MIAG project (Delali Margaret Badasu, O.S. Olarinde, F. Okoth, P. Raghuram, I. Raimundo and C. Walker) based on part of the project data at a mini-conference on June 21, 2022. The theme of the conference was 'Migration and inequalities in the Global South: Neglected intersections of oppression and privilege'. It was organized by the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Parvati Raghuram was a speaker and a session chair. Delali Badasu presented the paper on behalf of the team. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/research/groups/migration-refugees-asylum/migration-inequalities-gl... |
Description | BOND webinars |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | In this webinar the Open University and Bond discussed what has worked well when moving training online, and you will hear about a new course from Open University, called Take Your Training Online, which can be used to support online learning within your organisation. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://bondngo.force.com/s/event/a795a000000PoWgAAK/taking-your-training-online-challenges-and-solu... |
Description | DSA conference (2020) presentation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Mohan gave a paper entitled 'Towards a conceptualisation of migration and inclusive growth in Africa' at the Development Studies Annual conference which was hosted by University of Birmingham but organised online. The panel was entitled Migration and inequality: implications for development, research and practice |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/73#8919 |
Description | Development Studies Association conference session on migration |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | The MIAG team are part of a team organising a series of sessions at the Development Studies Association annual conference in June 2019. It is hosted at the Open University and Professor Mohan, this project's PI, is the academic lead for the conference. The sessions are Large-scale migration, remittances and development: historical and contemporary evidence, and MIAg team members will be presenting a paper on 'Alternative migration trajectories and inclusive growth in Africa: A conceptual framework and evidence from 'expatriates' and 'repatriates' in Nigeria' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.devstud.org.uk/conferences/2019/ |
Description | Diaspora Engagement Policy |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Delali Badasu presented draft Diaspora Engagement Policy at workshop attended by Ministries, agancies and other stakeholders. As the lead consultant for the drafting of this policy Delali played a key role in the organisation of consultative meetings which led to the finalisation of the policy. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Ghana coverage of inception meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The Ghana inception meeting was covered by various Ghanaian media houses, one of which was the Ghana News Agency. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://ghananewsagency.org/social/migration-consortium-discusses-ways-of-ensuring-inclusive-growth-... |
Description | Government Meeting on the national migration policy development |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | The meeting was with the National Coordination Mechanism for Migration led by the Directorate of Immigration to discuss the existing draft of the national migration policy. The discussion was focused on the impact of COVID 19 on migration and development among others. Dr. Oucho flagged some key aspects from the MIAG study on the impact of the pandemic on sectors especially manufacturing as well as start-up businesses established by foreigners. The evidence presented was based on preliminary analysis of responses from the study. The purpose was to spark a discussion on the contributions of international migrants to development during the era of covid. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | IAI Webinar on Covid and migration |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Migration, mobility and displacement retain their relevance for the Africa-EU partnership agenda, which would make part of the next round of negotiations between the two continents towards a new African Union-EU Summit in 2021. The EU, in its Comprehensive Strategy with Africa and New Pact on Asylum and Migration, both published in 2020, places emphasis on developing a comprehensive partnership agenda, including on migration, built on a stronger alignment of interests. Yet, consolidating cooperation on migration has so far proved to be challenging due to differences in priorities and approaches between the two sides. This challenge now needs to be confronted in a policy context profoundly altered by COVID-19. Against this background, the webinar aims to get locally grounded and context-sensitive insights into the impact of the pandemic on migration, mobility and displacement dynamics in Africa and to discuss what, as seen from African perspectives, this implies for the African-European partnership in this policy area. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.iai.it/en/eventi/covid-19-and-africa-eu-partnership-migration |
Description | Inception Workshop on Inclusive Growth in Kenya |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | The one day inception workshop introduced a selected group of stakeholders to the Migration and Inclusive African Growth Project from the perspective of Kenya. The aim was to also understand inclusive growth from various sectors including real estate, development agencies, diaspora returnees, immigrants residents in Kenya and policy makers. Stakeholders provided varied perspectives on their experiences or views on inclusive growth and the role of migration. Their insights helped to strengthen our thinking, approach and identify the sectors and immigrant populations we aimed to investigate as part of the study. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | International Forum on Migration Statistics |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Professor Adepoju organised and chaired a session on migration data in West Africa. This is the second such forum and ran from 20-21 January 2020 in Cairo, Egypt |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.iom.int/ifms/formal-agenda |
Description | International Metropolis Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The plenary I participated in focused on south south migration providing perspectives on knowledge on migration from Africa. The conference aim was to engage a wide pool of stakeholders to create awareness, influence public opinion and provide food for thought for existing and potential engagement on research on migration within Africa. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.internationalmetropolis2019.ca/en/ |
Description | Interview with Altai Consulting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The interview was to get information on Nigerian migration governance process by a research consortium in France |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Lecture at Pedagogical University of Maputo |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Public lecture as part of the celebration of the Day of Africa |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Lisbon conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Ines Raimundo was conference moderator at the 11th Iberian Conference on African Studies, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal. (6-9 July 2022)- Moderator of the session: Transits and Migration -1st (3-4:30 pm) and second sessions (09:10:30 am), Room C245.A, 07 and 08/07/2022 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://ciea11.pt/index.php/en/ |
Description | Lisbon talk |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Ines Raimundo presented a paper entitled 'The role of Small and Big Investments and Constitution of New Geographic Spaces-International Migration and Inclusive Growth in Mozambique' at The University of Lisbon, Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning 21st March 2022 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | MIAG dissemination |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Delali Badasu and Joseph Teye organised and presented at workshop to diserminate findings of the MIAG project in Ghana |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | MIAG inception meeting in Ghana |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | The consultative workshop was held on Monday, October 7, 2019 at 9:00 am. Participants at the workshop included the Principal Investigators (PI) and Co-Investigators (Co-PI) on the MIAG Project (Prof. Joseph Teye, Dr. Delali Margaret Badasu, both from the Centre for Migration Studies and Prof. Giles Mohan and Dr. Craig Walker, both from the Open University, United Kingdom), research assistants, stakeholders from both government institutions and non-governmental organizations, civil society organizations, the Media and some post-graduate students from the University of Ghana and other participants from the university community and beyond. In all, 79 participants were present, including 8 media houses |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Migration-consortium-discusses-ways-of-ensuring-i... |
Description | Migration and Inclusive African Growth Webinar Series: Diasporic Entrepreneurship |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The three-part webinar series provided a platform for discussions on the role of migration on inclusive growth. This was the second part of the webinar series forced on diaspora contributions to the national development of their home country moderated by Dr. Oucho. Attendance included a mix of postgraduate students, policy makers and practitioners showcasing evidence of diaspora contributions to inclusive growth. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FxYmwEryRc |
Description | Migration for Inclusive African Growth: Ghana Dissemination Webinar |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | The activity was a dissemination webinar organized by the MIAG Ghana Team to bring together key stakeholders in the migration industry, the media- practitioners and professionals for the dissemination of the findings and policy implications of the Ghana component of the MIAG project.The presentations were followed by discussions and comments from the participants. he media practitioners present interviewed the MIAG team and published the interviews in the media- print and electronic. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Mozambique diaspora talk |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Dr Raimundo delivered a public talk via webinar to members of Diplomatic Missions of Mozambique, to Diaspora associations, migrants, and representatives of the Ministry of Interior, National Services of Migration and International Organisation for Migration. The topic was "Mozambicans in Diaspora: Population Movements and Policies". |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | PhD training |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Lecture to PhD students at University of Gothenburg, Sweden entitled Methods versus Adaptive Methods for Studying People in the Move |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Poster Presentation at the Open Impact Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | The AMADPOC team presented a poster on the Migration and Inclusive African Growth Project at the joint Open University and Makerere University Open Impact Conference in Kampala Uganda on 13-14 December 2019. Ms. Natalie Chaponda and Ms. Gorrety Yogo were present on ground to talk about evidence cafe and how it helps us to understanding migration's role in inclusive growth. The conference was focused on extending the frontiers of access to higher education in Africa: strategies for leveraging online and distance learning programs. The conference was a celebration of the 50th Anniversary of The Open University, an appreciation of the achievements of the University on the continent in the last 50 years, in partnership with leading institutions like Makerere University, and an opportunity to co-create a strategic vision for the next 50 years. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Presentation at the DSA conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Paper to be presented at the DSA conference in Birmingham in June 2020. The paper is part of a panel on Migration and Inequality |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.devstud.org.uk/conferences/2020/panels#8919 |
Description | Review of National Migration Profile |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | The validation exercise was to review and endorse the final migration profile document the first meeting was to review the document and the second to endorse the draft document from the perspective of policy makers NGOs researchers and other stakeholders |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | TV appearance |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Joseph Teye joined discussion on national TV on Migration and Development nexus and how migration could be harnessed for socio-economic development |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Technical Working Group on Migration and Development, UN Migration Network |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | In August 2021, AMADPOC was invited to co-chair the UN Migration Network's Technical Working Group for Kenya. This provides a platform to share existing research activities/results as well as explore areas of further engagement on research activities. Aspects of the MIAG project were presented in the meeting for greater awareness with the members. This is an ongoing role for a period of 12 months. Results of the MIAG study will be shared within this platform as one of the activities. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Training workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Training workshop for plenning officials from the Ministry of Employment and Labour relations and other Ministries on how to incoporate migration into development planning and annual working plan. This was organised by CMS in colaboration with GIZ, and GOPA. Joseph Teye was the main resource person for the 3 day workshop that was attended by 34 officials of ministries and agancies. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Training workshop on Capacity Development Measures on the Global Compact on Migration |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Around 40 officials and practitioners attended a series of training events around implementing the Global Compact on Migration. They reported increased knowledge on the subject and would modify their practices as a result. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Webinar |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Organized by Mo Ibrahim radio |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3yMU3GIxT4 |
Description | Webinar: Research With Mobile Communities in a time of Covid |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This webinar was one in a series on covid commissioned by the Strategic Research Area in International Development and Inclusive Innovation within the OUs faculty of arts & social sciences. The webinar brought together a range of international early career academics and research NGO partners to discuss the effects on covid on research with mobile, migrant populations. Three members of the MIAG team participated, reflecting on their experiences of data collection. Topics of discussion included: challenges and opportunities of access, gendered dimensions of research, ethical questions and the implications & responsibilities of participatory research with vulnerable communities. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |