Uaera - Uganda

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GOOD NEWS!! A New Bilateral Labour Agreement between Uganda and Saudi Arabia has been signed... Ugandans can safely now migrate to Saudi Arabia for work!

IMPORTANT NOTICE; New UAERA Help Line +256200908792. contact us for any inquires relating to Labour Externalization

The New Regulations governing the Labour Externalization Sector are out! Check in the "Media" section of this website to read them

About Us

The Uganda Association of External Recruitment Agencies (UAERA) started in 2013. Currently it has a membership of 325 members as per March 2023. We an umbrella of agencies professionally working together to spur growth of external recruitment in Uganda. UAERA regulates and monitors the activities of member agencies together with Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development, which is our regulating body that ensures every company is licensed to externalize labour.

Our member agencies source job opportunities from all over the world. The major destination countries are in the Middle East, where the economies are sustainable and therefore creating jobs.

OUR VISION

To be the champion of safe labour migration in Uganda and beyond.

OUR MISSION

To unite, promote and mobilise key players to stimulate sustainable development in the labour Externalisation sector.

OUR VALUES

Professionalism, inovation, teamwork and empathy.

Jobs Abroad

We meet the unanswered questions of the employers,job seekers and agencies in the industry.

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Achievements

Labour Externalisation sector contribute to Uganda's foreign earning through annual remittances by Ugandan workers abroad which stands at USD 1.3BN globally and USD 700M for those working in the Middle East countries alone.

Acquisition of skills and capital that the returning ugandan migrant workers are ale to apply on the Uganda market.

Grown in the standard of living for the families of those working abroad because of better salaries being earned.

The number of members has gradually increased from 13 members in 2013 to 325 members in March 2023.

Establishment of a reception Center in Entebbe that offers Psychosocial support to returning Ugandan migrant workers irrespective of the country they are from.

Legal Background

Our members are licensed by the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development under the following laws and regulations.

. The employment ACT No.6, 2006.

. Statuary instrument No.47 of 2021

. The prevention of Trafficking in persons Act No.6, 2009.

. The Uganda Citizenship and Immigration control Act.

. The National Security Act.

Stakeholders

Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ministry of Internal Affairs
Ministry of Finance
Uganda Embassy in Riyadh
Uganda Embassy in Abu Dhabi
Uganda Embassy in Doha
Saudi Arabian Embassy in Kampala

Portfolio

UAERA regulates and monitors the activities of member agencies together with Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development, which is our regulating body that ensures every company is licensed to externalize labour.