“The Tanzanian Global Diaspora Council” abbreviated as TDC Global and referred to herein as “the Council“.
Who We Are
The Tanzanian Diaspora abroad, consists of people of Tanzania origin and non-resident Tanzanian residing outside the country. Although It is not well documented, because of non – coordination between the Government and the Diasporas, but the Diaspora of Tanzania abroad, account for significant share of the country GDP. Similarly, the contribution of the Diaspora in terms of skills, expertise and transfer of knowledge to Tanzania is invaluable though this potential is not yet fully developed or harnessed.
Mission
The role of the institution we establish as Tanzania Global Diaspora Council {TDC Global}
is in the realisation of the Tanzania Government Vision 2025, in driving investments in the
priority sectors of the economy such as Industrialization, Tourism, education, financial
services, health, housing, ICT enabled services, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO),
manufacturing of final products etc.
The Tanzanian Diaspora abroad, consists of people of Tanzania origin and non-resident. Tanzanian residing outside the country. Although It is not well documented, because of non – coordination between the Government and the Diasporas, but the Diaspora of Tanzania abroad, account for significant share of the country GDP. Similarly, the contribution of the Diaspora in terms of skills, expertise and transfer of knowledge to Tanzania is invaluable though this potential is not yet fully developed or harnessed.
Despite the huge potential of the Tanzania Diaspora, there are challenges hindering its contribution to national development. Some of the challenges include; the high cost of remitting money, inadequate capacity to offer consular services, inadequate mechanisms of protecting Tanzanian in the Diaspora, weak structures to inform Tanzanian in the Diaspora of investment opportunities, untapped skills and expertise and lack of an integrated database on Tanzanian abroad.
The policy we propose, therefore contains strategies aimed at effective deployment and utilization of the expertise, technical know-how and the entrepreneurial skills of the Tanzanian abroad. Similarly, the importance of Tanzanian and Persons of Tanzania Origin in the Diaspora should be fully recognised in the Constitution of the United Republic of Tanzania and Diaspora commission bill, should be proposed with the views of the Diasporas themselves via Tanzania Global Diaspora Council with its members as illustrated above, Parliament discussion and, the Government, thereafter, to be enacted into law.