Who we are
OUR VISION
To play a leading role in increasing employment opportunities in Uganda.
OUR MISSION
To actively source and secure external employment for majority of the youth of Uganda that is unemployed within the country
OUR VALUES
Maintaining ethical standards and professionalism. Promoting unity, development and welfare of everyone
OUR OBJECTIVES
To organize and unite all companies licensed under the labour externalization programme to operate under one umbrella and speak with one voice for strengthening the sector
To ensure protection of migrant workers, and observation of their human rights and welfare in accordance with the international labour standards. 3. To self regulate, ensure adherence to the code of conduct, laws, regulations and guidelines set by the ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development (MGLSD)
To ensure transparency, build confidence in the public and make the business attractive and sustainable. The mandate of the association is therefore on labour migration
Board Members
About us
The Uganda Association of External Recruitment Agencies (UAERA) started in 2013. Currently it has a membership of 161 members as per 01st October 2019. 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.
Latest news
Labour Externalization Remains A Glimmer Of Hope For Many Unemployed Ugandans
In recent times, the labour externalization programme which allows migrant workers from Ugandans to work in the middle East, for comparatively far better wages, has attracted backlash from a section of the public. This may be a result of two different but interrelated factors; limited public knowledge of labour externalization and negative media coverage. First, […]
Press Statement On Allegations Made By Hon. Nabooze Betty About Marphie International Recruitment Company On 6th July 2019
Hon. Nambooze in her Facebook write up states that; Dozens of girls who were trafficked to the Arab world as slaves were returned to meet their relatives aboard “Air Dubai” (Fly Dubai) that touched down on 5th July 2019. That the girls were in wheelchairs with broken limbs, bruised faces, sick and some were dead […]
Uganda Signs MoU with UAE to Ease Labour Export
Hon Janat Mukwaya, the Minister of Gender, Labour and Social Development yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Al Hamli Nasser Bin Thani, the United Arab Emirates’ Minister of Human Resources and Emiratization. According to Hon Mukwaya, the main purpose of signing the agreement is to formalize the migration of Ugandan workers to the […]
How Boniface Sunday amassed UGX100m in five years from working abroad to start own school
My name is Boniface Sunday and I come from Fort Portal town in Western Uganda. I went to school in Fort Portal and later joined the Uganda Christina University to study a Bachelor of Social Works and Social Administration. Later, I worked as a consultant in 2010 at Blue Financial Institution, in Masaka. I worked […]