ADDIS ABABA – The Ethiopian Diaspora Service (EDS) said that it is exerting its utmost efforts to enhance the Diasporas inclusive engagements in social, economic, political aspects through various packages.
On the consultative forum held yesterday, EDS Director-General Mohammed Idris (PhD) said that they have prepared a strategic document ‘Empowered, Integrated and Protected’ (EIP) to put in place in various embassies by recruiting over 250 novel Diaspora representatives to formulate global consultant board to help enhance the Diasporas participation.
He further also stated that the service discussions are undertaken to provide packages and products with a view to contributing the Diaspora communities’ participation in an organized manner.
“We are undertaking various engagements to create favorable environment that meet the Diasporas interests interims of access to credit, job creation along with investors in small and medium manufacturing, house development, health sector amid agriculture through joint venture schemes among others,” the director-general noted.
Having said the Diasporas involvement is showing commendable progress, the director-general remarked that the service is working on promoting innovated packages and products to enhance their participation, he added.
Moreover, the forum helps us identify the challenges as an opportunity and taking the home grown reform strategies as a bridge to beef up the social, economic, political, and diplomatic and knowledge capital to benefit themselves and the country at large, he stressed.
Lack of access to information, land provision, bureaucratic chains, skilled manpower and misinformation are the witnessed glitches impacting the sector, he emphasized.
At the forum, various regional bureau representatives have raised rounded issues on the ways how to improve the Diasporas participation in various sectors. And hence, he said that they have gained remarkable inputs for our forthcoming cores and consolidating their coordination from federal to regional levels to offer chained services.
“The service has planned to create outreach programs and awareness creation platforms for exceeding one million Diaspora and enhance women Diaspora engagements this fiscal year,” he added.
Moreover, he said EDS has also planned to encourage the Diasporas participation in investment, tourism and trade sectors via their missions. Besides, about 1,600 Diasporas to engage in investment, tourism and trade and planned to offer 170 investment licenses.
It was also indicated that the service has planned to generate over 4.5 billion USD remittance and to create about 3,000 jobs in the current fiscal year.
BY ASHENAFI ANIMUT
THE ETHIOPIAN HERALD SUNDAY EDITION 12 NOVEMBER 2023
