Zambia Diaspora e - Conference 14-24 October 2008 will see the first steps of a visioning process

by members of the Zambian Diaspora Forum to collect together

2008 Invitation
Visioning Diaspora involvement in
Zambia’s Development
Our
2008 launches the Zambian Diaspora’s
collective dialogue with home. This
years ‘Visioning’ theme explores our
collective aspirations for Zambia.
Pre-conference registration is at
http://DiasporaConnect.blogspot.com
To register kindly read the four posts
and fill in Conference Survey1. and
your preferred thematic group. Once
registered we will send you a welcome
note and a copy of the National Vision
2030 for your ease of reference as you
deliberate in the conference. We look
forward to your participation.
views on how the Diaspora may participate in Zambia’s national
development. This invitation, calls Zambians abroad, with interest
in contributing to the development of the Diasporas vision for
engaging with government at an institutional level, to participate
in this email group deliberation. The areas of coverage will be:
- Land and Housing
. - Investment and Commerce
. - Human Capital Development; and
. - Zambian Culture and Identity
This initiative seeks to consolidate Diaspora views on
development priorities as well as provide formal means to
communicate and collaborate with government on these
priorities. From the governments perspective this conference also
acts as a scoping process necessary to inform on the next steps
of the Project Diaspora Citizenry being coordinated by the
Ministry of Finance and National Planning, Zambia.
It is expected that outputs from this conference will provide initial
indications to Government, Zambia Development Agency,
International Organization on Migration and other stakeholders on
policy requisites for promoting the Diaspora’s involvement in
development.

Steering committee: Paul Lupunga - Canberra, Musaba Chailunga - Toronto, Chasaya Sichilima - London Ontario, Chola Mukanga - London UK,
Muyeba Musonda - Michigan, Bright Chinganya - Melbourne and Jones Mpakateni - Peshawar. Group email is DiasporaConnect@yahoo.com