Uganda In Engineering Policy Shift
Excerpts Prepared By Editor-in-Chief
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Government has made commendable progress in streamlining engineering practices in the
country. This work has been undertaken over the past few years. This will lead to redress in
the following key areas:
- Setting criteria for eligibility to practice;
- Prescribing friendly conditions for access to contractual work;
- Higher participation for local professionals;
- Regularizing local construction industry (LCI) activities; and,
- Requiring minimum professional standards within contracting firms beside
others.
Three major areas are being addressed, namely,
- Obstacles to sector growth
- Need for an LCI on a firm footing; and
- Way forward.
One can only eagerly await its realization as this is a vital component of enabling national growth in general and the profession in particular. The policy is anticipated to be in place in the course of 2005.
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