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Welcome message by the Ambassador |
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 It is a pleasure to welcome you to the official web site of the Embassy of Kenya in Dublin, Ireland.
This website is designed to provide readers with quick and incisive information about the Mission, its activities and services. It is also a source of information to all our readers wishing to know more about our country.
We hope that you will find the website useful. Kindly contact us for clarification and/or additional information on any relevant issue.
We also welcome your feedback, through email or a visit to the Embassy.
Thank you for taking your time to visit our site.
KARIBU!
With my best regards,
Catherine Muigai Mwangi
AMBASSADOR
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The Draft Diaspora Policy of Kenya |
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At the beginning of this year the Government released the Draft Diaspora Policy, signalling its commitment to creating an enabling environment for Diaspora engagement, and an opportunity for the Diaspora to determine how they wish to engage with the government in shaping the future social, economic and political destiny of Kenya.
The Embassy wishes to encourage Kenyans in Ireland to critically review the draft policy.
For any comments/inputs please submit to the Embassy not later than 30th April 2012.
To access the document, please click The Draft Diaspora Policy of Kenya |
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Irish Government Launches Innovative Africa Agri-Food Development Fund |
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Above picture - from left to right: H.E. Catherine Muigai Mwangi, Ambassador of Kenya, Joe Costello T.D. Minister of State for Trade and Development, Simon Coveney T.D, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Eamonn Gilmore T.D. Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Peter Allan Kallaghe, Ambassador-Designate of Tanzania.
On Wednesday 21st March, 2012, the Irish Government launched a €2 million Africa Agri-Food Development Fund. This is a joint initiative between the Departments of Agriculture, Food & the Marines and Foreign Affairs & Trade. The objective of the fund is to complement Ireland’s oversees development cooperation programme and support new partnerships development between the Irish agri-food sector and African countries to support sustainable growth of the food industry, build markets for local produce and support mutual trade between Ireland and Africa.
The Fund was launched by Mr. Eamon Gilmore, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs & Trade, Mr. Siomon Coveney, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine and Mr. Joe Costello, Minister of State for Trade and Development. In attendance too were H.E. Ms. Catherine Muigai Mwangi, Kenyan Ambassador to Ireland, Mr. Peter Allan Kallaghe, Tanzania’s Ambassador-Designate, resident in UK, senior government officials, Chief Executive Officers from different agri-food companies in Ireland and Irish NGO’s.
The €2 million Fund will initially run on a two-year pilot phase basis (2012 - 2013) and it is proposed that the pilot phase will concentrate on Kenya and Tanzania.
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Speech by H.E. Ms. Catherine Muigai Mwangi, Kenyan Ambassador
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Africa - Ireland Economic Forum |
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The first Africa – Ireland Economic Forum was held on 13th September 2011 at the Smurfit School of Business in Dublin, hosted by the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Mr. Eamon Gilmore T.D. and attended by among others the Minister of State for Development and Trade and the Secretary General of Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. This was the first Economic Forum of its kind in Ireland. It was an outcome of a proposal by the African Embassies resident in Ireland for a joint approach to promote trade between Ireland and Africa initiated by the Kenyan Embassy in Dublin in consultations with UCD, Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. It provided an opportunity for the African Embassies in Ireland to talk investors/ business community about available opportunities in different African Nations.
Speaking at the forum, H.E. Catherine Muigai Mwangi, Kenyan Ambassador and dean of the African group of Ambassadors outlined Africa’s potential. She said;
“……this is a landmark occasion as we, African Ambassadors, assemble here to talk business - and to do business - with the business community of Ireland…..We want the business community of Ireland to start looking at Africa in a different way. We want Africa to be viewed as a market. We want Africans considered as consumers and producers…..
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Formal Launch of New Programmes for Investors and Entrepreneurs |
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The Minister for Justice, Equality and Defence, Mr Alan Shatter TD, announced that the two new immigration programmes aimed at stimulating investment and job creation in Ireland, will be known as:
1) The Immigrant Investor Programme
2) The Start-up Entrepreneur Programme
The programmes will be open for applications from 15th April 2012.
Announcing the commencement date of the programmes Minister Shatter said “These programmes are all about investment and job creation. Everyone knows that the economic situation is challenging but sometimes that can be a catalyst for new ideas and I am happy that my Department, even though it does not have an overt economic remit, can play its part”.
For more information on the outlined details of the programmes
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