The Uganda Embassy, Abu Dhabi 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 are: 

• Strengthening engagement with the Diaspora with a view to encouraging Ugandans in the UAE 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 in the UAE.
• 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.