About Sierra Leone Diaspora Advisory Council (SLDAC)

The Sierra Leone Diaspora Advisory Council (SLDAC) was established in 2025 through the vision and leadership of Ambassador Philip Jusu and the Embassy of Sierra Leone in Brussels. Created as a strategic platform to unify, mobilize, and empower Sierra Leonean communities across Europe, SLDAC stands as the first officially recognized diaspora advisory body serving Sierra Leoneans in Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, and Greece.

With the Embassy of Sierra Leone as the driving force behind its formation, SLDAC gained immediate legitimacy, diplomatic recognition, and institutional credibility—a level of trust and authority that many diaspora organizations spend years striving to achieve. This foundation has enabled SLDAC to operate with clarity of purpose, strong governance, and a direct link to national development priorities..

SLDAC was created to strengthen coordination between the Embassy and Sierra Leonean communities across Europe, ensuring that diaspora engagement becomes structured, strategic, and development‑focused. Through its work, SLDAC provides guidance on diaspora affairs, supports investment and partnership initiatives, mobilizes talent and expertise, and fosters unity among Sierra Leoneans abroad.

Today, SLDAC continues to serve as a bridge between the diaspora and Sierra Leone, transforming goodwill into action, ideas into opportunities, and collective effort into sustainable impact for the nation.

Our Core Values

SLDAC’s values are derived from the Constitution’s principles of transparency, unity, development, and institutional collaboration. They also incorporate the recommended values from your website draft.

Ubuntu – “I am because we are”

We prioritize collective success over individual gain. Every partnership, decision, and initiative is measured by how it uplifts Sierra Leoneans at home and abroad.

Integrity & Transparency

We uphold uncompromising honesty, accountability, and openness in all engagements—reflecting the Constitution’s commitment to “transparency, accountability, and democratic governance.

Empowerment

We build capacity, not dependency. SLDAC equips diaspora members and local partners with the knowledge, networks, and tools needed for independent and sustainable success.

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SLDAC MISSION STATEMENT

To empower and unite Sierra Leonean diaspora communities across the Benelux region, Greece, and the Vatican by fostering meaningful engagement, strengthening cooperation, and catalyzing business, trade, and development initiatives that contribute to sustainable national progress in Sierra Leone.

This mission is grounded in Article 1.1 of the Constitution, which states that SLDAC exists “to empower and unite Sierra Leonean diaspora communities by fostering meaningful engagement, strengthening cooperation, and catalyzing business and development initiatives.”

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OUR VISION STATEMENT

To become the leading diaspora‑driven institution connecting people, ideas, and investments between Europe and Sierra Leone—creating a thriving ecosystem where diaspora capital, expertise, and innovation fuel sustainable prosperity for current and future generations.

  • Inclusive development, economic cooperation, and knowledge exchange
  • Strengthening cultural identity, unity, and mutual understanding
  • Responsible investment, entrepreneurship and sustainable partnerships.
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SLDAC Constitution

We, the members of the Sierra Leone Diaspora Advisory Committee (SLDAC), united by our shared commitment to national development, diaspora engagement, and institutional collaboration, hereby establish this Constitution as the governing framework of our organization. Following the 2024 appointment of Ambassador Bob Philip Jusu as Ambassador of the Republic of Sierra Leone to the Kingdom of Belgium, with accreditation to the Benelux countries, Greece, and the Holy See, structured diaspora engagement was prioritized as a key pillar of the Embassy’s diplomatic mission. To give effect to this vision, SLDAC was formally inaugurated on 13th September 2025 in Brussels as a consultative body composed of representatives from the Embassy’s operational
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