African Migration and Development Policy Centre, AMADPOC African Migration and Development Policy Centre The African Migration and Development Policy Centre (AMADPOC) is an organisation that aims to undertake and streamline policy-oriented research, training and dialogue on internal as well as international forms of voluntary, forced and irregular migration as they affect and are in turn affected by development within the sub-Saharan Africa and in the region's interrelations with the North and the rest of the South. Recognition of the role and interplay of migration policy and development policy, inter-ethnic relations and other spheres of national as well as international development, intra-regional harmony and inter-regional interdependence within a globalising world in which diversity calls for viable South-North or South-South partnerships. AMADPOC aims to deepen viable international partnerships, embed research in society and build capacity of African countries in the corridors of research institutions, national governments, inter-governmental cooperation with development partners on migration and development issues affecting them individually and in South-North and South-South relations.