The National Water and Sewerage Corporation has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Uganda Business and Technical Examinations Board (UBTEB) with the aim of improving quality and access to the skills training and assessment of NWSC staff through training and certification in the various selected occupations and trades as part of the Corporation’s plans to enhance staff productivity and capacity.
Speaking at the signing ceremony, NWSC’s Managing Director, Dr. Eng Silver Mugisha said that the NWSC–UBTEB collaboration purposely to enhance cooperation in strengthening NWSC staff capacity and competence.
“The collaboration will exploit the unique expertise and experiences of the two parties in the delivery of capacity building programmes to staff of NWSC.”, he said as he hinted on the fact that the partnership is in line with the new NWSC Corporate plan (2021- 2024) objectives.
“At NWSC, Staff capacity building initiatives are paramout for excellent service delivery. Skilling and
workforce development is one of our strategic priority areas under our corporate plan in line with
NDPIII, Dr. Eng. Mugisha stated.
Dr. Rose Kaggwa the Director Business and Scientific Services at NWSC said that this milestone will immensely contribute towards implementing the Skilling Uganda Strategy (2012–2022) and TVET
Policy (2019) by promoting demand driven competence–based training, relevant for the labor
market by the industry and assessment body.
Dr. Kaggwa added that NWSC has training hubs/centres and desires to have these centres recognized as UBTEB accredited assessment and training centres to ease the process of staff training and assessment for improved performance.
The corporation has churned out over 800 graduates from its Vocational Skills Development Facility (VSDF). The graduates were trained and certified by Directorate of Industrial Training (DIT), in areas of customer service, industrial plumbing, electro mechanical repair and
maintenance, Workers Practically Acquired Skills (Workers PAS), welding and fabrication technicians, water quality technicians, heavy machine operators, and maintenance technicians among others.
The corporation is also working to construct regional training hubs in Kacung-Lira, Bushenyi among others in the pipeline and remains committed to customer delight by a competent and delighted workforce.
Written by: John Fisher Sekabira
