Written by; Edrisa Ssentongo
The chairperson of Technical vocational education and training Allen Kagina has affirmed government's commitment and desire to empower Uganda's workforce and unlocking employment through transferable skills.
Kagina was speaking during two day oil and gas Expo as keynote Speaker at Makerere University organized by Petroleum authority of Uganda and other stakeholders in the oil and gas sector
Government has increasingly recognized that countries with the deepest technical capability are focusing on transferable skills and that is why deliberate emphasis is centred on human capital development, industrial skilling and employment creation under successive national development frameworks and Uganda's oil and gas sector has become one of the strongest sectors of the structured workforce planning and national capacity development.
" Through the petroleum authority of Uganda, ministry of energy and Mineral development, licensed operators, contractors and training institutions Uganda has invested significantly in developing intentionally benchmarked competencies in areas such as welding, health, safety, environmental management, fabrication, logistics, engineering support and technical operations, said Allen Kagina.
" Apprenticeship and workplace learning systems must expand significantly because competence is not only built through classroom instruction but through exposure to real operational environments, Labour market intelligence systems must become stronger because countries increasingly require sophisticated mechanisms for tracking workforce demand, future industrial needs and emerging competency gaps, added Allen Kagina.
The government of Uganda in its efforts to empowering Ugandans and unlocking employment opportunities, the government has developed the workforce skills development strategy and 14,000 direct jobs have been projected and 42,000 indirect jobs and 10,000 induced jobs specifically in the oil and gas sector.
The petroleum authority of Uganda organizes these oil and gas skills Expo in accordance with regulation 5 of these petroleum exploration development and production national content 2016 which mandates Petroleum authority of Uganda to organize conferences and other educational fora to promote national content in Uganda's oil and gas sector and in executing it's mandate of regulating and monitoring.
Uganda's oil and gas Petroleum authority focuses on five core areas such as petroleum resource management, cost monitoring, petroleum resource data management, health safety and environmental management and national content which focuses on participation of Ugandans in the sector.
The chairperson of Technical vocational education and training Allen Kagina has affirmed government's commitment and desire to empower Uganda's workforce and unlocking employment through transferable skills.
Kagina was speaking during two day oil and gas Expo as keynote Speaker at Makerere University organized by Petroleum authority of Uganda and other stakeholders in the oil and gas sector
Government has increasingly recognized that countries with the deepest technical capability are focusing on transferable skills and that is why deliberate emphasis is centred on human capital development, industrial skilling and employment creation under successive national development frameworks and Uganda's oil and gas sector has become one of the strongest sectors of the structured workforce planning and national capacity development.
" Through the petroleum authority of Uganda, ministry of energy and Mineral development, licensed operators, contractors and training institutions Uganda has invested significantly in developing intentionally benchmarked competencies in areas such as welding, health, safety, environmental management, fabrication, logistics, engineering support and technical operations, said Allen Kagina.
" Apprenticeship and workplace learning systems must expand significantly because competence is not only built through classroom instruction but through exposure to real operational environments, Labour market intelligence systems must become stronger because countries increasingly require sophisticated mechanisms for tracking workforce demand, future industrial needs and emerging competency gaps, added Allen Kagina.
The government of Uganda in its efforts to empowering Ugandans and unlocking employment opportunities, the government has developed the workforce skills development strategy and 14,000 direct jobs have been projected and 42,000 indirect jobs and 10,000 induced jobs specifically in the oil and gas sector.
The petroleum authority of Uganda organizes these oil and gas skills Expo in accordance with regulation 5 of these petroleum exploration development and production national content 2016 which mandates Petroleum authority of Uganda to organize conferences and other educational fora to promote national content in Uganda's oil and gas sector and in executing it's mandate of regulating and monitoring.
Uganda's oil and gas Petroleum authority focuses on five core areas such as petroleum resource management, cost monitoring, petroleum resource data management, health safety and environmental management and national content which focuses on participation of Ugandans in the sector.
