Paper short abstract:

The Africa-Europe Platform is a project that aims to improve the transnational contacts and networks among African Diaspora organizations in EU countries and thereby boost the positive impact of their development activities on the countries of origin.

Paper long abstract:

Despite this reality is not always visible, the advancement of technologies and the systematization of information on a global scale, demonstrate the increasingly important contribution of African Diasporas for the effective development of their countries of origin.

Operating progressively, in a way increasingly professional, civil society gradually reaches levels of further elaborate organization, channeling more and more concerted synergies and resources available, combining the spirit of individual mission to the collective consciousness, anchored in expertise in a transversal and strategic vision of the future.

The use of the skills and capacities of African immigrants in Europe for the development of Africa is still well below its potential. The challenges are pressing and there are several aspects that stop work from being more effectively on the ground, namely: poor visibility and exposure of their work to a wider audience; structures still inconsistent in many organizations, lack of access channels of useful information and the means of financing, and also the little networking between organizations.. This

The European Wide African Diaspora Platform for Development (EADPD) was initiated to foster the creation of a solid and viable network that considerably increases the contribution of the Diaspora to the overall development of Africa in a sustainable and systematic manner. The project is funded by the European Commission and implemented by five consortium partners, namely: ADPC in the Netherlands; AFFORD in the UK; FORIM in France; CGMD and ICMPD in Belgium and includes organizations from the 27 EU member states, plus Switzerland and Norway.

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