There is no such thing as the diaspora. Better collaboration with diaspora organisations requires actions, both from the development sector and the diaspora community. A synthesis.

Efforts to engage the diaspora undertaken within the migration & development policy framework fail to harness ‘the potential of the diaspora’. Highlighting three issues that are at stake in this referred to ‘unhappy marriage’.

Realising effective inclusion of and collaboration with the African diaspora living in the Netherlands in the Dutch development efforts relies, to a large extent, on…

In order to create a sustainable collaboration, Romijn argues, diaspora organisations and the development sector should develop interpersonal relationships and come up with shared bottom-up initiatives.

Georgina Kwakye shares lessons about how diaspora organisations can have an added value in the Dutch development agenda and how their support to Dutch NGO’s could lead to a win-win situation.

Diversification, inclusion and working closely with the wide variety of diaspora groups - it is not a burden, it is a huge opportunity.