Understanding Opportunities for Diaspora Investments - An Approach for African Governments

Making Finance Work for Africa (MFW4A), DMA Global and the International organization for Migration (IOM) hosted a webinar on February 2020. The session allowed financial sector specialists to explore how African countries can identify opportunities to harness diaspora capital as a viable source of productive investment.  Building on the "Toolkit for Understanding Diaspora Investment in Africa", the webinar discussed a series of steps that governments can take to assess the viability of diaspora investing back home and to determine the best approach for attracting this investment. The Toolkit provides a systematic guide for governments to work through, where the findings and recommendations will form the basis of robust diaspora investment strategies and shed light on what development finance institutions can do to support them.