Diaspora’s Touch on GERD Established in March 2019, the Ethiopian Diaspora Agency mainly aims at facilitating and coordinating the participation of Ethiopian diaspora in the country’s overall social, economic, cultural and political activities. To that effect, the agency focuses on four major areas: Diaspora Community Development, Diaspora Engagement, Diaspora Information, Research and Communication as well as Rights and Legal Protection of the Diaspora. Under the Diaspora Community Development Directorate community-based interventions of the diaspora to ensure Ethiopia’s development considering the state of the country in which the diaspora resides is dealt. The Diaspora Engagement Directorate on its part facilitates the participation of the diaspora in trade, investment and tourism sectors by providing a single window service. It also promotes knowledge and technology transfer of the diaspora; remittance flow, banking sector investment and other diaspora engagement activities. As the agency has the responsibility of collecting, analyzing and distributing information regarding the diaspora community and its current situation, Information, Research and Communication Affairs Directorates strive to achieve those goals. In addition providing diaspora information, providing policy guidance for the government and other concerned stakeholders are priority tasks that the agency gives special attention to. Considering Ethiopians living abroad have the rights to access services from the government, the issue of protecting rights and benefits of the diaspora is one of the main reasons why the agency has been established.Rights and Legal Protection Affairs Directorate is mandated to handle such issues.
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More significantly, different Ethiopian scholars have been making appearances on various global media networks operating mainly in Arabic, French and English languages, revealing the truth on GERD.
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