Government says less than 10% of monetary value spent on construction projects goes to local contractors despite the fact that over 95% of the total number of registered contractors are local.
Speaking during the launch of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) training manuals in Lusaka today Works and Supply Minister Yamfwa Mukanga said the current situation needed to be reversed but that this can only happen if contractors are equipped with the requisites for the industry.
He said in order to address the challenges, NCC engaged UNZA school of engineering to ensure that a stakeholder driven and meaningful manuals were developed in order to support the implementation of the CPD program of Small Scale Contractors and consultants.
The Minister said the Manuals comes as a result of the challenges faced by Zambian Contractors who indicated them through a consultative processes.
He said among the challenges noted were limited access to finance, limited technical and managerial skills, lack of access to plant and equipment and lack of knowledge in preparing tender documents.
He also said arising from a number of workshops a skills gap was identified some thing the training manuals will address.
And NCC Executive Director Charles Mushota said the Manuals have come at an opportune time as they will be useful in ensuring that the council provides relevant and structured information to contractors.
He said doing so will ensure that contractors get the knowledge they require to help them improve and grow the companies.
THIS IS THE DEAL AND I TRUST THE SAME MONIES IS WHAT HAS MADE BENA KAMBWILI WHO DID NOT HAVE TRUCKS BEFORE THEY CAME INTO POWER, TODAY THE HAVE CHAINS OF TRUCKS YOU CAN SEE IN ALL DIRECTIONS.
It’s most likely less than 1%. Is greed in PF exorcisable, I wonder?
How come minister you are alone on the high table with empty chairs surrounding you. Signs that your support base has been fast disappearing.
Like all PFools, he likes eating alone with the Chinese. That’s why he is isolated.
Put access to finance as a last problem. Finances without capacity will be a waste of resources. The first problem is technical and managerial skills. These contractors should have qualified engineers to do their designs and implement their constructions which begs the question, can they pay engineers competitive wages? If yes fine, but if no, then comes the issue of capacity, technical and managerial skills. So they need training in capacity, managing partnerships so that where possible two or three contractors should be merging for tender specific projects, pool their resources and skills together. At that point even access to finance is a different story as they would each bring in some assets to be used as collateral.
It is when these contractors accept that little profits over…
Nothing makes sense with these empty tins!!
Buy also tractor sweeping brushes for clearing roads and maintenance for newly made
How about work ethics, experience, logistics equipment etc?