THE DIASPORA DEPARTMENT
The Department for the Diaspora handles issues related to the mobilization of the Uganda Diaspora for national development (i.e. transfer of resources/specialist knowledge; skills and technologies for development; and promoting gainful employment of Ugandans abroad; etc.).
The key functions of the Diaspora Department are:
- Strengthening engagement with the Diaspora with a view to encouraging Ugandans abroad to support national development.
- Promoting and strengthening appropriate structures and regulatory regimes that ease investment, financial and commercial transactions by the Diaspora.
- Negotiating, in cooperation with key stakeholders, appropriate legal framework on the bilateral export and / or exchange of labour abroad.
- Promoting incentives to encourage Diaspora skills and knowledge transfer home.
- Providing services as the One-stop centre and channel of information and communication for the Uganda Diaspora community.
- Establish and maintain a data base on the identity, location and skills of the Ugandan Diaspora. The key functions of the Department are:
- The key functions of Diaspora Department Cont’d:
- Strengthening engagement with the Diaspora with a view to encouraging Ugandans abroad to support national development.
- Promoting and strengthening appropriate structures and regulatory regimes that ease investment, financial and commercial transactions by the Diaspora.
- Negotiating, in cooperation with key stakeholders, appropriate legal framework on the bilateral export and / or exchange of labour abroad.
- Promoting incentives to encourage Diaspora skills and knowledge transfer home.
- Providing services as the One-stop centre and channel of information and communication for the Uganda Diaspora community.
- Establish and maintain a data base on the identity, location and skills of the Ugandan Diaspora.
DIASPORA DEPARTMENT STAFF MEMBERS
S/N | NAME OF OFFICER | DESIGNATION |
1. | AMBASSADOR JOHNNY MUTHAHI MUHINDO | HEAD OF DEPARTMENT |
2, | MR. AGAMA ANTHONY | MINISTER COUNSELOR |
3. | MS CAROL LWABI | FIRST SECRETARY |
4. | MR TUSUBIRA ERIYA | SECOND SECRETARY |
5. | MS HAMIDA NAKABIRA | PERSONAL SECRETARY |
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