Despite this, they are often underutilised in responses, especially in-country engineers, whom also have contextual understanding of the communities and regions the response is happening in.
We have been working with the Uganda Instution of Professional Engineers and CEDAT at Makerere University since 2020 to address this, supporting engineers to understand how to translate their technical skills into a very different, humanitarian setting, where standards, motivations, priorities, timelines and ways of working are often very different to an engineering project.
In 2022/23, we go further; working with NGOs in Uganda too, and bringing together the two sectors to a common understanding. We’ll be funding some community-based humanitarian engineering projects, with our corporate engineering partners in the UK also offering coaching and mentoring to engineers.
