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CONFERENCE AGENDA

The Tanzania High Commission in London in collaboration with the Tanzania Association in the UK (TA-UK) are organizing a Tanzania Diaspora Conference (Diaspora 2 London) to take place from the 26 to 27 March 2010 at Sattavis Patidar Center, Forty Avenue J/W The Avenue, Wembley Park, Middlesex HA9 9PE(London, United Kingdom).

The Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation of the United Republic of Tanzania, Hon. Bernard Kamillius Membe will grace the occasion.

The two-day event will include a Diaspora support agenda (Day One) and a general meeting of the TA-UK to approve a new Constitution and to elect the association’s leaders (Day Two).



Conference Agenda

The Diaspora 2 London is a follow-up to the first Tanzania Diaspora Conference held in London on the 18th April 2008. As it was the case with Tanzania Diaspora and Skills Conference the Tanzanian private sector has been invited to participate. These include banks, NHC and estate agents, employment agencies and strategic companies that will be targeting to employ people from the Diaspora.

Tanzanian companies as well as Tanzanian NGOs and groups operating in the UK will be encouraged to take out a table for display of their activities. Institutions and entities that have a bearing on the Diaspora such as the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Bank of Tanzania (concerning remittances mobilization), Ministry of Lands (concerning land allocation) and CRDB (concerning Tanzanite Account), Commercial Banks (Concerning home finance loans) have been invited to make presentations.

Objectives

Diaspora 2- London is necessary for the following reasons:

*To review the outcome of Diaspora 1 and what has been achieved both by Government and the TA-UK.

*To acknowledge the growing recognition of the value and importance of the Diaspora and to consider how the Government can lend greater organizational structure to the Diaspora to consolidate their capacity to organize and to engage with the Government

*To deepen the links between the Diaspora and their Government and their home country

*To acknowledge the growing need of qualified Diaspora to relocate back to Tanzania following the opportunities now apparent back home and to find ways of facilitating their relocation

*To acknowledge the presence and consider ways to facilitate repatriation of many Tanzanians in the Diaspora who came to the UK for various reasons and who now would like to return home.

*To explore further opportunities for enhanced engagement between the Government and the Diaspora and to devise strategies for way forward particularly in view of current policy of the UK and other European countries to block entry and the loss of many jobs following last years global financial crisis.

*To consider the creation of a Diaspora Committee to advise the Government and to lobby Parliament on matters of interest to the Diaspora.

Note: Sattavis Patidar Centre is located just off the North Circular Road and the car park on ‘The Avenue’ Corner of Forty Avenue will be available for the conference d3elegates.

Those wishing to come by bus can take buses number: 245, 223, 83, 182, 297 and PR2. By tube they can use Metropolitan Line or Jubilee Line to Wembley Park.

To register for the event please click the link below:

http://www.tanzania-online.gov.uk/web/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=95&Itemid=69

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