Support Regional Survey on the South American Diaspora through Data Analysis

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The regional assessment on the current status of diaspora engagement across the region will provide the information over the South American diaspora, national policies, legislation, channels and authorities in charge of the emigrant community; institutional mechanisms to facilitate identification of differentiated socio-economic impacts of emigration and the contribution of diaspora at the local level and how to take advantage of the latter for local sustainable development; and recommendations on how to improve positive relationship between migration and development. The volunteers will directly contribute to expanding the information available on the South American diasporas.

The main tasks for this volunteer position will include the cleaning of raw data and creation of a data dashboard using MS Excel which will allow colleagues to manipulate the data through a set of interactive graphs. In addition, volunteers will provide insights into trends and patterns in certain subsets of the data.

Volunteers should be familiar with data analytics, as well as experience with Excel. Skills on graphic creation on data skills and writing skills would be needed.