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Pension Identity Verification Exercise and Payment Scheme

Pension verification has often been necessary in order to avoid paying to ghost-pensioners who are either non-existent initially or have passed away. Pensioners are therefore required to travel from their places of residence to a single location where their records are to be verified.

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Accident and emergency rescue initiative in Nigeria

 

Earlier in the year Awareness for development a migrant community based forum in Ireland conceived an accident and emergency rescue project as part of its vision for Diaspora development intervention initiative. The project was rationalised by the virtual total absence of a coordinated accident and emergency structure in Nigeria since independence. It was also motivated by the increase in the harrowing experience in road traffic and work place accidents in Nigeria.

The project developed by a project team led by Son Gyoh, a consultant in development management, is the outcome of 5 months of consultations and research that engaged a range of stakeholder organisations in Nigeria as well as professionals in Ireland.  To increase awareness and educe support for the project, the group launched a web based signature petition as well as a manual signature campaign. The project was designed to be presented to the House committee on Diaspora to push as a supplementary bill to existing acts/decrees but also modelled with flexibility for an executive directive.

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Enhancing the participation of Diaspora groups in migrant development initiative

In the past few years now, the case for a stronger partnership between regional development organisations and the Africa Diaspora community has been gaining more ground. Although the debates have not gone ‘mainstream’, there is recognition that migrant led civil society groups can be enablers of institutional transformation necessary to steer development and reverse the trend of mass migration driven largely by the search for opportunities. At the EU/UN level especially, there is the belief that professionals and entrepreneurs from the Diaspora community can help drive development and institutional transformation in Africa.

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Bridging cultural gaps in health service provision in Ireland

 

For many non-European immigrants where the extended family unit is non- existent, the ‘church community’ plays a central role in maintaining cohesion in the family as well as resolving domestic tension among the households of its membership. Faith organisations have come to fill the space of the extended family, serving as a social support structure. They would therefore provide support such as counselling on domestic crisis, mediating and resolving family issues relating to spousal, family and household wellbeing. The presiding Pastors and Muslim leaders are looked upon as ‘ordained mentors’ and they do usually exercise considerable influence at the collective and individual level of membership. Faith based organisations have come to emerge as the most visible single rallying point where people of diverse traditions, value systems, gender and age groups interact and share information and values.

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Development Education

 

Development Education is widely defined as a system of knowledge that promotes critical thinking, reflection and action that bring about change at local and international levels (Tormey, 2003, p.2; Regan 2003; Irishaid). The Centre for Global Education in Belfast describes it as a participative learning process that aims to tackle the underlying causes of global poverty and inequality through action (CenterforGlobalEducation).

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