This methodology for profiling diaspora skills was produced between November 2021 and November 2022 as part of a combined action of research and deployment of diaspora professionals diaspora professionals of the European Union's Global Diaspora Facility (EUDiF). The EUDiF, funded by the EU and implemented by the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), is working to to consolidate efforts to engage the diaspora in development. The potential of the diaspora in the development of a given country is considerable. In order to mobilise skills available within a diaspora, it is first necessary to better understand its characteristics. its characteristics. With this in mind, the Diaspora and Migration Issues Directorate has requested support from the EUDiF to strengthen its capacity to engage with the diaspora and identify skills that could help address the structural needs facing Madagascar. These include a lack of skilled labour, particularly in the fields of information and communication technologies technologies, as well as a lack of teachers, particularly in the higher education sector. higher education sector. To address these priorities, the Diaspora and Migration Issues Department recognised the need to profile the diaspora on a regular basis and to develop the tools and skills to do so. The EUDiF action "Diaspora skills profiling: a step-by-step methodology step-by-step methodology piloted with the Malagasy diaspora in France and Switzerland" thus aims to facilitate the transfer of the diaspora's expertise and knowledge of how to develop a methodology and practical tools to and pilot an initial profiling of the skills of the Malagasy diaspora in France and Switzerland.