Strengthening the Migration-Development Nexus in Africa (Consultant for Ghana)

Advises Ghanaian planning and financial institutions on integrating diaspora contributions and remittances into development plans and productive investment, builds local planning capacity, develops national strategy tools, monitors reforms and transfers Ghana’s practices to other participating African countries

Department: Subregional Office for North Africa

• Advise Ghanaian institutions on integrating diaspora contributions and remittances into development planning
• Train metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies to mainstream migration into medium-term plans
• Support local authorities to prepare migration, diaspora and remittance action plans
• Coordinate national institutions in developing remittance and diaspora investment strategies
• Develop results frameworks, indicators, baselines and targets for monitoring policy reforms
• Support national dissemination and advocacy on migration, diaspora contributions and remittances
• Transfer Ghana’s tools and practices to other participating countries through South-South cooperation

• Advanced university degree in Economics, Statistics, Sociology, Demography, Population Studies, Migration or a related field, or a first-level degree with two additional years of qualifying experience
• At least five years of experience in economic or social research and analysis
• Fluent English

• The consultancy lasts six months
• Deliverable schedules will be agreed with the consultant and the Subregional Office