3. Outline  HISTORY  The First Forum  The Second WHADN Meeting  Proposed WHADN Structure  WHADN Plan  WHADN Statistics

4. HISTORY  Pan-African Movement, Conference & Congress  OAU and AU

5. The First Forum  First African Union Western Hemisphere African Diaspora Forum (December 17-18, 2002)  The AU's & FDA’s mission  Reasons for Forum  WHADN established  FDA’s role in WHADN  WHADN Mission, Objectives. Programs & Activities, Geographical Representation  The Sixth Region  1 st Extraordinary Session - AU amended its Constitutive Act (Article 39)

6. The Second WHADN Meeting  Held in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago June 2004 – Convened by A.U.  Historic venue  Wide participation  Objectives of workshop  ECOSOCC  Outcome

7. Proposed WHADN Structure

8. Proposed WHADN Structure contd.  Regions in proposed structure  http://www.democracy- africa.org/documents/WHADNStruct ure.pdf http://www.democracy- africa.org/documents/WHADNStruct ure.pdf

9. WHADN Plan  WHADN has set for itself a plan in 3 stages SHORT TERM 2003-2007 MEDIUM TERM 2007- 2011 LONG TERM 2007- 2011 Legal Framework Governance Structure Admin Systems & Processes Coordination of Regional Activities Mapping of groups New groups Harmonization & Integration Immigration, Investment, Citizenship Implementation at country level Policies & Legislation Full integration of Diaspora FULL IMPLEMENT A-TION OF THE AU DIASPORA INITIATIVE AT THE COUNTRY LEVEL

10. WHADN Statistics contd. USA 37 Mill. Canada 0.5 Mill. Brazil 60 Mill. Latin America 8 Mill. Caribbean 15 Mill. All numbers are approximations based on numbers available from various census reports

11. WHADN Statistics contd. Western Hemisphere accounts for 40% of total Global population of people in the African diaspora Global African diaspora has 300 million as compared to 863 million in Africa

13. QUESTIONS Fred Oladeinde President Foundation for Democracy in Africa 1612 K Street NW, Suite 1104, Washington, DC 20006 Tel: (202) 331 1333; Fax: (202) 331 8547 Email:comments@democracy-africa.org Website http://www.democracy-africa.org