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PROFILE : My journey to Professional Registration - Innocent Gininda

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Innocent Gininda shares his journey to becoming a registered Professional Engineer (PrEng), emphasizing the importance of mentorship, early preparation, and understanding ECSA requirements. He offers advice to aspiring PrEngs, highlighting the value of diverse feedback and a positive mindset. My journey to becoming a registered Professional Engineer (PrEng) culminated successfully in November 2024. I was fortunate to begin my career at a company with a Commitment and Undertaking (C&U) Agreement with ECSA and a robust mentorship program. This commitment to training engineers to the standard required for Professional Registration provided me with essential resources and a structured path to track my experience against ECSA requirements. Early exposure to these expectations instilled a positive outlook on registration and solidified my desire to achieve this milestone. My views on Professional Registration have remained consistently positive throughout this journey. Working alongside ...
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NEWS: Investment in Africa's water infrastructure is key to delivering social justice and economic growth

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Access to clean water is well understood as a public health issue, but in Africa, limited water access and poor sanitation act as a major drag on economic growth. The International High-Level Panel on Water Investments for Africa estimates that sub-Saharan Africa loses 5% of its GDP annually – US$170bn per year – as a result of poor water infrastructure.


Access to water is also critical at the intersection of social justice and economic productivity. Each year, 40bn hours of otherwise productive time is spent collecting water. And that burden falls disproportionately on women and girls, robbing them of time in education or at work.

Investment in water infrastructure, therefore, is key to the continent realising its fullest human and economic potential. The pay-offs from that investment are immediate, multiple and central to sustainable development. The African Union highlights that every US$1 invested in climate-resilient water and sanitation returns at least US$7 in improvements to health and education, food security, the environment, gender equality and progress towards the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

The Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) partnership is dedicated to generating and leveraging the political will and leadership needed to make and manage that investment.

In October, working with the African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW), SWA brought together 40 finance ministers and development partners from across Africa to discuss ways to mobilise an extra US$30bn annual investment in water and sanitation infrastructure.

In this series of articles, we look at why that investment is so critical and how it could be put to work.

“Dramatic progress is possible with forward-thinking leaders who can connect the dots and understand the importance and urgency of investing in water infrastructure,” says Catarina de Albuquerque, CEO of SWA.

“The cost of inaction is too great,” argues Abida Sidik Mia, Malawi's water and sanitation minister. “Water is the foundation of all healthy, productive and sustainable countries – that's what we are striving to be.”

This hardhatNEWS article was first published on Economist Impact

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