About the portal
A shared reference point on diaspora affairs for the OIC Member States, maintained by SESRIC.
What this portal is for
Diaspora policy across the OIC Member States is active but fragmented: each country has built initiatives around its own priorities, and the experience gained rarely travels. This portal brings the conceptual groundwork, the comparative research and the record of institutional cooperation together in one place, so that national institutions responsible for communities abroad can find both the framing and the practice in a single reference.
It is a permanent resource rather than an event site. Forums and meetings appear here as part of an ongoing programme of work, alongside the research that informs them.
SESRIC
The Statistical, Economic and Social Research and Training Centre for Islamic Countries was established following Resolution No. 2/8-EC adopted by the Eighth Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers, held in Tripoli in 1977, and began its activities in Ankara on 1 June 1978. It is a subsidiary organ of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.
Its mandate is threefold:
- to collate, process and disseminate socio-economic statistics and information on and for the use of the Member States;
- to study and evaluate economic and social developments in the Member States in order to generate proposals that initiate and enhance cooperation among them;
- to organise training programmes in selected fields geared to the needs of the Member States and to the general objectives of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.
Partners
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Türkiye
Co-organiser of the Forum and a partner in the diplomatic coordination that underpins cooperation among the Member States on diaspora affairs.
Presidency for Turks Abroad and Related Communities (YTB)
The Turkish public institution responsible for citizens living abroad, kindred communities and international students, and co-organiser of the 1st Muslim Diaspora Forum of the OIC Member States.