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The Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development (KNOMAD) was launched by the World Bank in the late spring of 2013 with funding support from the governments of Switzerland, Germany, and Sweden. KNOMAD is sub-divided into twelve thematic working groups and a set of four cross-cutting themes 1 .KNOMAD’s Thematic Working Group ‘’Integration Issues in Host Communities” (Chaired byHoward Duncan, Metropolis Project at Carleton University, Ottawa, and Co-Chaired by Gervais Appave, International Organization for Migration) has proposed a five-year long project to KNOMAD’s Secretariat to look at the means by which immigrant integration can and does enhance homeland development and to draw out of these explorations some ideas including best practices that governments and other agencies can consider. As part of this undertaking, an Experts Advisory Committee, composed of global experts in immigrant integration and in development, was formed to support the development of knowledge products and related activities over the proposed five-year period.