KNOMAD
The Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development (KNOMAD) is an initiative of the World Bank that describes itself as "envisaged to be a global hub of knowledge and policy expertise on migration and development issues." The goal is to have it work in close collaboration with the Global Forum on Migration and Development and the Global Migration Group. History. KNOMAD grew out of the World Bank's earlier efforts to compile data on migration and remittances; the goal with KNOMAD was to make the process more systematic and encompass a wider range of measures related to migration. KNOMAD 's inception phase was May 2011-April 2013. During this time, it held consultations with governments, civil society organizations, the private sector, and academics. It organized global experts' meetings in December 2012 in Geneva and Washington D.C. As part of the inception process, Dilip Ratha, KNOMAD's CEO, shared thoughts on KNOMAD's role in shaping future policy in a blog post for the World Bank's "People Move" blog. KNOMAD was announced by the World Bank on April 19, 2013. It entered a five-year implementation phase in May 2013. KNOMAD has collaborated with diverse organizations such as the  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (Paris workshop, December 2013) and the United Nations Development Programme (specifically, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research). A number of seminars, conferences, and workshops have been held by KNOMAD in collaboration with other agencies and institutions to further its agenda. Funding. The KNOMAD is funded by a multi-donor trust fund set up by the World Bank. The largest contributors are the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (Germany). People. Dilip Ratha, the CEO of KNOMAD, is also Manager of the Migration  and Remittances Unit of the Migrating out of Poverty initiative of the Department for International Development in the United Kingdom as well as the host of the "People Move" blog of the World Bank. Research areas. KNOMAD has working groups in the following twelve areas: It also identifies four cross-cutting themes for its work: The four cross-cutting themes are: