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Africa-related Events in
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blackprogress.net - The Black Progress Network
"Making
Leaders". The
Economist. 24 July 2003.
ALPN director, Dr. Michael Isimbabi's
letter in response to
The Economist's cover story,
"Now
for Africa" (03
July 2003).
Brain Drain, Brain
Gain, Brain Circulation, Diaspora Africans, and Capacity Building in Africa
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Articles, reports, essays,
data, etc.
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Diaspora
Africans' initiatives and
networks
See also:
ALPN's African Professionals /
Experts / Intellectuals / Scholars Network
African Leadership &
Progress Briefs
New
Addressing Africa’s
Humiliation: 'Brain Gain'/'Brain Circulation' Diaspora Networks for
African Progress
New
After the 2005 G8 and UN Summits: Independent,
High-Impact Information Infrastructures and Networks for
Transparency and Accountability in African Countries
Leadership & Governance Capacity
Building in African Countries: Why and How Well-Off
and Accomplished Africans, Especially "Brain Drain" Africans, Should
Proactively Take Charge of Fostering African Progress
Brain Drain and Capacity Building in Africa.
Ainalem Tebeje. Feb 2005.
Association for Higher Education and Development (AHEAD)
A diaspora and its good deeds. Clyde Sanger.
February 2005
Semantics Aside: the Role of the African Diaspora in Africa’s Capacity
Building Efforts.
Association for Higher Education and Development (AHEAD)
& International Development Research Centre (IDRC).
"Semantics Aside" Power Point Presentation by
Ainalem Tebeje
Mobilizing Ethiopians Living Abroad for the
Development of Ethiopia.
Ainalem Tebeje and Clyde Sanger. September 2004.
Stopping The Brain Drain From Africa:
Their Loss, Our Gain. Ainalem Tebeje and
Clyde Sanger.
http://www.aheadonline.org/brain.pdf
Reversing the Brain Drain, Harnessing the
Diaspora. Special Feature. eAfrica -
The Electronic Journal of
Governance and Innovation. September 2003.
South African Institute of International Affairs
The International Organization for Migration
(IOM) and The Foundation for Democracy in Africa (FDA) signed a Memorandum of
Understanding, to reverse the effect of the “Brain Drain” on African Countries.
Press Release, Washington DC – April 04, 2005.
Africa's "Brain Gain": Whose Shibboleth? Atieno Odhiambo.
December 2004
Brain Drain in Africa: Facts & Figures
How
Africa is Courting its Exiles. E. Blunt. BBC News, 17 October 2004.
Former UNESCO Boss Cites Reasons for Africa's Brain Drain.
Panapress, 9 October 2004.
Brain Drain
in Africa - African Medical and Research Foundation
Africa’s Health-care Brain Drain. New York Times,
13 August 2004
A Foot in Each Country.
Adrian Cho. Science
Magazine.
28 May 2004. Many foreign-born scientists who succeed in the United States are
helping those they left behind--without leaving their new home
How networking can help mitigate the brain drain. David
Dickson. 24 November 2003. SciDev.Net
Nigerians in Diaspora Critical to
FDI. Bright Ewulu. Daily Trust. 11 May 2004
Harnessing Remittances for Economic
Development: A Case for Remittance Policy in Ghana.
Y.
Sophism. 12 Sept 2003.
From Brain Drain To Brain
Circulation: Can Ghana Harness Its Human Capital Abroad For Development? Yaw
Sophism. 15 August 2003
Conference of Intellectuals
from Africa and the Diaspora (CIAD) - 7-9 Oct 2004 -
Speeches, Reports, Etc.
Final Report
International Migration and Development in Africa
and Related ECA and Partnership Activities.
UN
Economic Commission for Africa.
30 September 2004
Mobilizing Africa’s Intellectual
Diaspora. Damtew Teferra.
International Higher Education, Spring 2004
Brain Circulation: Unparalleled
Opportunities, Underlying Challenges, and Outmoded Presumptions. Damtew Teferra.
October 2004.
Brain Drain and Mobility -
Bibliography of Recent Publications, International Network for Higher Education
in Africa.
Revisiting the Doctrine of Human
Capital Mobility in the information Age .
Damtew Teferra.
In Sibry Tapsoba et al. (Eds.), Brain
Drain and Capacity Building in Africa.
International Development Research Center
(IDRC),
International Organization for Migration
(IOM
), and
Economic Commission for Africa
(ECA).
Unleashing the
Forces of the Diaspora: Capitalizing on Brain Drain in the Era of Information
and Communication Technologies. Damtew Teferra. In Diasporas Scientifiques--Scientific
Diasporas, Part II, Collection Expertise Collégiale. 2003. IRD Editions:
Paris.
Scientific Communication in African
Universities: External Assistance and National Needs.
Damtew Teferra. 2003. New York: RoutledgeFalmer.
African Higher Education: An International
Reference Handbook. Damtew Teferra
&
P. G.
Altbach (Eds.). 2003. Bloomington, Indiana:
Indiana University Press.
Knowledge Dissemination in Africa:
The Role of Scholarly Journals.
Philip G. Altbach & Damtew Teferra (Eds.). Bellagio Studies in Publishing,
8. Boston College, MA: Bellagio Publishing Network. 1998
Why Nigerians Are Not Returning Home
Africa: Education and Brain Drain
Brain Drain from Africa
What Can Technology do for Africa?
Can Nigeria Leapfrog into the
Information Age?
Africa's options: return, retention or diaspora?
Wisdom J Tettey. May 2003. An analysis of the brain drain in Africa,
looking at the ideas that have guided efforts to address the problem, suggests
ways of harnessing the continent's intellectual resources to its socio-economic
and political development.
Africa's brain drain: exploring possibilities
for its positive utilization through networked communities.
Wisdom J
Tettey.
2002.
Mots Pluriels 20
An Action Plan to Prevent Brain Drain: Building Equitable
Health Systems in Africa. Physicians for Human
Rights (PHR). 2004
The Brain Drain in Africa – An Emerging
Challenge to Health Professionals' Education.
D.
Dovlo.
Journal of Higher Education in Africa.
2004
"Human Resources for Health: Overcoming the Crisis". Global Health Trust's Joint
Learning Initiative. 2004
Online resources on brain drain of health
professionals from Africa
DatelineHealth-Africa.net
Global Workshop on Leveraging
Diasporas of the Highly Skilled - Buenos Aires, Argentina - April 26-27, 2005
MOBILIZATION OF DIASPORAS FOR
KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER. Yevgeny Kuznetsov, The World Bank
Leveraging National Science &
Technology and Business Talent Abroad.
Yevgeny Kuznetsov. World Bank. April 26, 2005
From Brain Drain to Gain: Operational
Implications of International Mobility of Human Capital. Yevgeny Kuznetsov.
World Bank .
2005
Work Globally, Develop
Locally: Diaspora Networks as Springboards of Knowledge-Based Development.
Yevgeny Kuznetsov. World Bank.
Examines ways to increase the chances that the migration of high-skill workers
benefits sending countries.
THE DYNAMICS OF SKILLED LABOR
MIGRATION: WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT THE BRAIN DRAIN?
David
Ellerman, University of California at Riverside
DIASPORAS AND DEVELOPMENT.
Richard Davone
INDIA’S TRANSFORMATION TO KNOWLEDGE-BASED
ECONOMY – EVOLVING ROLE OF THE INDIAN DIASPORA.
Abhishek Pandey, Alok Aggarwal,
Richard Devane and Yevgeny Kuznetsov, Everserves
THE ROLE OF HOME ORGANIZATIONS IN HOME
COUNTRIES: GLOBALSCOT AND SCOTTISH ENTERPRISE.
Mairi MacRae and Martin Wight
DIASPORA’S CONTRIBUTION TO ARMENIA’S ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT: WHAT DRIVES THE FIRST MOVERS AND HOW THEIR EFFORTS COULD BE SCALED
UP? Victoria Minoian and Lev
Freinkman, The World Bank
ROLE OF DIASPORA IN FACILITATING
PARTICIPATION IN GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE NETWORKS: LESSONS OF RED CALDAS IN COLOMBIA.
Fernando Chaparro, Hernán Jaramillo and
Vladimir Quinteros
Reversing Ethiopia's Brain Drain: A National
Imperative:
Part 1.
Yosef Yacob - 2005
Ethiopia wants skilled Diaspora to return.
afrol News, 11 November 2004
Reversing the Brain Drain In Ethiopia. David
H. Shinn. November 23, 2002.
Brain drain makes the quality of higher
education to deteriorate: Better address than to be proud of the brain drain,
The Reporter (Ethiopia)
The Diaspora as National Capacity Development
Strategy (Ethiopia). March 2003
Diaspora Skills, Remittance Said Huge
Potential for Ethiopian Development. 31 March 2004
UN Volunteers in Ethiopia
Mobilizing Ethiopians Living Abroad for the
Development of Ethiopia
IOM says the Diaspora Keen to Contribute to
Country's Development (Ethiopia). August 9 2004.
Looking Beyond Remittances. B. Yosef. Addis
Fortune Magazine. December 19, 2004.
Leveraging Diaspora Skills and Remittances
for Development (Ethiopia). 02 April 2004
Reversing Brain Drain: A Personal Testimony. Hailemeskel
Bisrat. Addis Tribune. 28 Jan 2005.
Brain Drain: Putting Africa between
a Rock and a Hard Place.
Mohamed A. El-Khawas.
Mediterranean Quarterly. Fall 2004
Academics streaming out of Africa. BBC News.
25 March 04
Why
is Africa losing its best brains? BBC News. 19 March 2004. Thousands of Africa's
professionals and students are leaving the continent for better prospects in
Europe, USA or India. Includes readers' comments.
Harnessing the Twin Resources Of
Africa: People and
Natural Resources for Sustainable Development.
United Nations University. 10 June
2004. Summary of the UNU/INRA panel.
France pledges support for 'scientific diasporas'. Sally
Goodman. 21 November 2003. SciDev.Net
Reversing Africa's 'Brain Drain': New
Initiatives Tap Skills of African Expatriates. G. Mutume. Africa Recovery,
July 2003.
South Africa shows the value of the diaspora option. Mercy Brown. 22 May 2003.
SciDev.Net
Policy implications of the brain drain's changing face.
Jean-Baptiste Meyer. May 2003.
Impact of skilled migration on receiving countries.
Mark C Regets. May 2003.
The need for policies that meet the needs of all .
B. Lindsay Lowell. May 2003.
Networking lessons from Taiwan and South Korea.
Hah-Zoong Song. May 2003. How networking – both personal and
institutional – plays a crucial role in managing brain circulation.
Halting Africa's health brain drain.
BBC News World Edition.
19
May 2003
Africa Brain Drain: 70,000 Scholars Leave
Yearly. D. Odumasi-Ashanti. Ghanaian Chronicle, 13 March 2003
The turning tide of Africa's brain drain. BBC News.
14 March 03
Brain Drain to Brain Gain
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Transfer of Knowledge through
Expatriate Nationals (TOKTEN)
Program.
UNESCO
Diasporas, Brain Drain and Return. 2002.
Assouman Yao Honoré
Unifem’s Digital Diaspora Initiative:
Fostering E-Quality In Africa.
Laketch Dirasse. World Bank Gender and
Digital Divide Seminar Series. May 21, 2002
Capacity Development
Resource Center (CDRC) Website - World Bank
World Bank Capacity Day
(June 8, 2005):
Capacity Matters: Operational
Implications [Includes: "Capacity Development Strategies: Lessons
from Africa" (Session
Two)]
Capacity Building in Africa:
an OED Evaluation of World Bank Support. April 2005
Joint Workshop on
Capacity Building:"Effective States and Engaged Societies".
Opening Remarks. Workshop co-sponsored by the African Development
Bank (AfDB), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (
UNECA) and the World Bank. February 24 - 25, 2005, Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia
Building State
Capacity in Africa. Sahr
Kpundeh and Brian Levy, editors. World Bank.
September 2004
Towards a More Strategic Approach
to Capacity Building in Africa. World Bank.
Africa Regional Capacity
Building Strategy Paper
The World Bank and Civil Society
Development: Exploring Two Courses of Action for Capacity Building.
Gabriel Siri. World Bank. 2002
Capacity Building: A New Way of
Doing Business for Development Assistance Organizations. Policy
Brief No. 6: Institute On Governance, Ottawa, Canada. 2000
International
Organization for Migration (IOM)
Migration for
Development in Africa (MIDA)
World Migration Report
2005: Costs and Benefits of International Migration
Migration and Development - IOM
Partnership for Brain Gain and
Capacity Building in Africa.
International
Organization for Migration.
Africa Recruit
Reversing Africa’s Brain
Drain: Commonwealth Business Council - Africa Recruit. Press
Release. 19 February 2003
Reversing Africa’s brain
drain. Michael Johnson, Commonwealth Business Council
Seminar Offers Remedies For
Africa’s ‘Brain Drain - Sept 2004 .
Akina Mama
wa Afrika (AMwA)
Association for Higher Education
and Development (AHEAD)
Association of Nigerians
Abroad
EthiopianDiaspora.info
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Net bid to bring Ethiopians home.
BBC
News
Ghana Cybergroup
Medact - Health Brain
Drain
Nigerians in Diaspora (NIDO) - Americas
Nigerians in Diaspora
(NIDO)-
Netherlands
Southern African
Migration Project. Migration Resources: Brain Drain Resources
South African Network of Citizens Abroad (SANSA)
AFFORD - The African Foundation
for Development (UK)
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Diaspora, Migration and
Development
Mobilising Africa's diaspora for
development
Globalisation and Development: A
Diaspora Dimension (AFFORD's response to DFID's 1997 White Paper on
international development)
Harnessing Mobility and Identity
for Africa's Transformation
Aid agencies interventions in
Africa - Helping to create brain gain?
Can NEPAD harness the African
diaspora’s developmental efforts?
Contributions by African
organisations in the UK to Africa’s development
Target Africa 2015 (PDF)
- development awareness, networking & lifelong
learning among African organizations in London,
African Diaspora and Development
Day (ad3)
africa21
TOKTEN Programme - Transfer of Knowledge
Through Expatriate Nationals. UNESCO
The Regional Conference
on Brain Drain and Capacity Building in Africa,
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 22 - 24 February 2000. Background Documents.
United Nations
Economic Commission for Africa
Report - Regional Conference on Brain
Drain and Capacity Building in Africa.
From Brain Drain to Brain Gain:
Africa’s Agenda for Training, Retaining and Using its Human
Resources Effectively.
Synthesis of papers presented at the Regional Conference on
Brain Drain and Capacity Building in Africa. Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia, 22-24 February 2000.
Regional Conference on Brain
Drain and Capacity Building in Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 22-24
February 2000.
Report of the Conference
Brain Drain and
Capacity Building in Africa.
Tapsoba, S. J. M.,
Kassoum, S. Houenou, P. V., One, B., Sethi, M., and Ngu, J. (Eds.).
(2000).
Joint publication of the
Economic Commission for
Africa, the International Development Research Centre, and the
International Organization for Migration.
Using the Intellectual Diaspora
to Reverse the Brain Drain: Some Useful Examples.
Mercy Brown, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Brain Drain and Capacity
Building in Africa: The Gambian Experience
UN Tackles African Brain Drain.
V. Gidley-Kitchin. BBC News. 22 February 2000
Africa's Brain Drain Slows
Development. David Johnson.
africana.com.
March 02, 2000
Development – Africa: Best and
Brightest Head West. T. Deen. IPS, 10 February, 1999
Investing in Return: Rates of
Return of African Ph.D.s Trained in North America. Mark Pires,
Ronald Kassimir & Mesky Brhane. 1999. Social Science Research
Council
The International
Symposium on Global Mobilization of Intellectual Resources for the
Development and Stability of Africa. 25-26 February 1998. Co-Chairs'
Summary.
The United Nations
University Africa Network
Diaspora
Interest in Homeland Investment.
Kate
Gillespie et al.
Journal of International
Business Studies,
1999
Palestinian
Interest in Homeland
Investment.
Kate Gillespie, Edward Sayre, and Liesl Riddle. The Middle East
Journal, Spring 2001
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