CIGI initiated a Project on mapping out the Diaspora Potential in Global South

  The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), an independent think tank on international governance, run by some of the best practitioners and distinguished academicians in the world, has recently initiated a new project on “Diasporas, Development and Governance in the Global South”.  The project is in response to growing diaspora engagement with the state actors especially in the developing countries. The project will provide insight to understand the dynamics of diasporic engagement in the recent globalization process especially the role in the understandings of diasporas in development, identify best practices for policy engagement of diasporas and facilitate Canadian diaspora engagement in development. The project broadly has three components (1) critical examination of efforts by international organizations and governments in the South and North to facilitate development in the Global South through