NOMRA

NOMRA is a collaborative organisation of researchers and scholars interested and working on migration, especially international migration, in the region. The numbers of experienced researchers are few and many more young researchers, especially females, need to be encouraged.

Mission Statement

To build a regional migration research network and research capacity in order to advance knowledge on migration dynamics and policymaking in Africa.

 

Vision

To evolve as a centre of excellence and a policy think-tank for the study of migration and development in Africa.

 

Realising Our Vision:

• assist in raising international migration issues and discourse at the highest political level and ensure that migration is adequately mainstreamed into development activities, including PRSPs.
• develop capacities, through training, of officials to help governments better understand migration management.
• develop research capacities in the region and enhance knowledge in migration research through training of researchers especially young scholars and including women;
• provide high–level advice and research services for policy makers at national, sub-regional and regional levels and assist in raising the quality of international migration data collection, storage and analysis by migration authorities and by census and statistics offices in the region.

 

Our Resources:

NOMRA has a team of experienced personnel with extensive knowledge in the area of research on migration and development in Africa. Our members are strategically located in west, north, central, east and southern Africa, and other parts of the world. These include researchers, policy makers and civil society officials with substantive experience in the migration and development discourse. Besides this, NOMRA’s board of trustees is made up of eminent scholars with extensive expertise in migration matters.

 

 

 

Our Activities:

The Network is actively engaged in capacity building of researchers, specifically young scholars and women, journalists and national officials to promote greater understanding of the migration-development nexus and migration management. NOMRA also assists young researchers (including women) in theoretical, methodological and policy approaches to migration research. Above all, it helps develop empirical knowledge and provide broad-based and reliable data to guide decision making at national, sub-regional and regional levels.

 

Our Expertise:

NOMRA is well-positioned to provide consulting and advisory services on topical and contemporary migration themes such as:

• Emigration of skilled professionals
• Brain drain and brain circulation
• Human trafficking and smuggling of persons
• The Diaspora
• Remittances
• Forced migration (Refugees and internally displaced persons)
• Return migration
• Regular and irregular migration
• Female migration
• Assessment of regional integration and bilateral agreements for migration management
• Development, implementation and evaluation of migration policies and programmes
• Migration training and training needs assessment

(Gender issues are treated as cross-cutting theme)

 

International Scientific Advisory Board:

Emeritus Professor Reginald Appleyard, Graduate School of Management, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

Emeritus Professor Tomas Hammar, CEIFO, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden

Emeritus Professor Bimal Ghosh, Senior Adviser, International Organisation for Migration, Geneva, Switzerland

 

 

Board of Trustees:

Mrs. E. Adjei (Ghana) Former Director, Ghana Immigration Service, Accra, Ghana

Professor J.O. Oucho (Kenya) Director, African Migration and Development Policy Centre, Nairobi, Kenya

Dr A. Barclay (Liberia/USA) Africa Division, The World Bank, Washington DC, USA

Professor A. Afolayan (Nigeria) Department of Geography, University of Ibadan

Dr B.H. Abdellatif (Tunisia) Consultant. Former Adviser, Population and Development, African Union, Addis Ababa

Professor G.T. Ngoie (DRC) Department of International Relations, University of Lubumbashi, DRC

Professor A. Adepoju (Nigeria) Chief Executive, Human Resources Development Centre, Coordinator, NOMRA