Higher Council for expatriatesTo develop care services to economic & development tasks [Archives:2005/878/Business & Economy]
Mahyoub Al-Kamaly
The ministry of Expatriates Affairs has lately presented the council of ministers of Yemen a study devoted to and suggested for the establishment of a Higher Council for Yemeni Expatriates whose membership is composed of various relevant parties. He study has come out of the state's interest in Yemeni expatriates and for invigorating their role and engaging them practically in the process of development in Yemen.
The study has also contained a diagnostic vision of the present situations of expatriates' sector and future horizons for its development and modernization of its institutions and mechanisms. It has pointed out that the diagnosis has disclosed short-sightedness in visions, legislative policies and structural forms s well as weakness in mechanism of coordination and persistence and duality and repetition of care tasks.
Existing regulations pertaining to rendering care for the Yemeni expatriates have been in enforcement for a long time and longer can cope with regional and international changes and variables in this respect, as well as changes and needs that have emerged in this sector. This situation dictates to effect developments and changes in this regard in order to keep pace with great recent developments that occurred to those tasks to cope with and meet the expatriates' needs for social care and vitalize their role in taking part in development inside their country.
The study aims at the creation of a qualitative leap surpassing the current situation by reformation of the structure, modernization of regulations, enforcement of expatriates' welfare law and adoption of its executive laws and accommodation of all that is related to the expatriates' affair.
The study also aims at changing the tasks of the relevant ministry from ones devoted to offering purely service tasks to economic and developmental tasks as well. Thus it has focused on attraction of new financial revenues pouring into the national economy provided by the Expatriates' Welfare Fund and Securities and others. The council of ministers has therefore submitted the study to a ministerial committee chaired by deputy premier the minister of finance and composed of the membership of the ministers of expatriates, the foreign affairs, the civil service and securities, and social affairs and labour. The formation of the committee and entrusting it with the study was meant for studying what it contains of suggestions and to develop them into an executive program aimed for all structural and institutional reforms and to treat all present disorders. The objective is to guarantee activation of the role of this sector and to activate laws of welfare in that of developing its tasks and modernization of its establishments, proceeding from the fact that those reforms are considered integrated system including the central, local, external and the ministries levels and the relationship of the expatriates ministry with them, in a way those relations would realize a sort of coordination and integration of roles. That, according to the study, would enable the expatriates sector achieve targeted aspirations and ambitions in
reforms and changes.
The minister of expatriates' affairs Abdeh Ali Qubati has made t clear that the study did not mean the complete cancellation of the existing offices of the ministry but rather to effect full structural reforms including the central and local levels with the aim of achieving the study's strategic goals. He said what had been published about the branch offices was meant not to open additional ones. As for the existing offices they would be connected to the central level, and that are of the committee's duties that was set up by the cabinet and it would take the necessary relevant decisions in this regard.
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