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GIZ supports 45 SMEs to upgrade health, safety, and environment standards and practices

JAVIRA SSEBWAMI | PML Daily Staff WriterbyJAVIRA SSEBWAMI | PML Daily Staff Writer
December 10, 2021
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The GIZ Employment and Skills for Eastern Africa (E4D) program through the Consortium of E360 Group Limited and LMS Certification Services Ltd have launched a project to support 45 Ugandan companies improve their Health, Safety and Environment standards and practices.
The GIZ Employment and Skills for Eastern Africa (E4D) program through the Consortium of E360 Group Limited and LMS Certification Services Ltd have launched a project to support 45 Ugandan companies improve their Health, Safety and Environment standards and practices (PHOTO /Courtesy).

KAMPALA —The GIZ Employment and Skills for Eastern Africa (E4D) program through the Consortium of E360 Group Limited and LMS Certification Services Ltd have launched a project to support 45 Ugandan companies improve their Health, Safety and Environment standards and practices.

The selected companies will participate in a value adding, competitive and intensive ISO 14001:2015 Environmental Management System (EMS) programme that includes; training, coaching, mentorship and certification.

The program’s objective is to increase their market positioning for emerging business opportunities in Uganda and beyond, to enable organizations within their operations, to enhance environmental conservation and to upgrade their practices to internationally recognized standards.

Don Agaba, the Head of Program, Uganda – Employment and Skills for Development in Africa (E4D) said: “We are here today to launch this project, which is extremely important, is needed both for compliance to enter into natural resource based sectors but also beyond, which is why we have a very large selection of companies from across several industries here represented in this room and online as well. We have the obligation to mitigate our carbon footprint to the environment but in addition to that, this (training) needs to make business sense in order for it to be sustainable. So I would strongly encourage you (businesses) to take these recommendations seriously, implement them through your operations and allow them to be sort of catalysts to increasing competitiveness of your companies.”

Waiswa Ayazika Arnold, the Director, Environmental Monitoring and Compliance, NEMA said: “As businesses grow, it is imperative that they comply with environmental laws. As you make profits, you must think about what your activities have caused to the environment. Forinstance, right now the cost of treating water for National Water is now very high because of increased land-based activities that have led to increased pollution of water.”

While thanking GIZ for supporting businesses to compliant with environmental standards, Waiswa emphasised that non compliance can be costly in more ways than one as it can lead to closure of businesses, penalties and arrests of non compliant business owners.

Benefits of the E4D project:

  1. Two people from each participating company shall be equipped with an in-depth understanding of ISO 14001:2015 Environmental Management Systems requirements, management system implementation encompassing ISO 14040:2006 life cycle assessment standard requirements and internal auditing skills.

  2. The project also has a coaching and mentorship component that will enable mentorship on the practical implementation of the standard requirements in relation to each organization’s operation.

  3. The best 32 companies will be selected for certification in the prestigious ISO 14001:2015 Environmental Management Systems.

Employment and Skills for Eastern Africa (E4D) program

The Employment and Skills for Development in Africa (E4D) program is an innovative skills and supplier development funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), the European Union (EU) as well as various other co-financers, which is implemented by German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ).

E360
E360 GROUP LTD is a training and consulting company that provides integrated educational and engineering solutions that protect the environment and mitigate risks to businesses, personnel and the community

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