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The roll out seminar for Stakeholders of Labour based Technology (LBT) was organized jointly by ILO, JICA and Ministry of Infrastructure development (MoID) in commemoration of ILO’s 90th Anniversary, and was held in Dar es Salaam at ILO Conference Hall, from 11th to 12th March 2009. A total of 50 participants from Government institutions, Private Sector, and development partners who are involved in one way or another with LBT, attended the seminar. The seminar had presentations and a number of case studies and a site visit to a road being rehabilitated using do-nou Technology.
The seminar was officially opened by the Director of Roads from Ministry of Infrastructure Development, Eng. Mussa Iyombe on behalf of the Permanent Secretary. Keynote Presentations was delivered by Dr. Salewi from ILO and Dr. Mfinanga of the College of Engineering and Technology of the University of Dar es Salaam.
The seminar observed the following:
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The Technology can really speed up development by its potential in employment creation and improving rural accessibility.
- Construction Industry is creating much of the part time job. Since LBT uses a lot of labour there is opportunity, if the industry grow, to create permanent Jobs to a significant number of the population.
However the application of LBT is hindered by
- Lack of Light Equipment;
- Insufficient number of trained Personnel to carry out the works;
- Low awareness of LBT within government Institutions;
- Lack of Clear Policy as far as LBT is concerned
To address the above, the seminar recommended the following actions to be taken as follows:
- The use of Labour based Technology should not be about preference, but should be guided by the technical specifications. The decree should be made that LBT should be technology of the first choice. Design should favor LBT whenever possible only to observe that quality will not be compromised.
- Stakeholders of LBT have the role to ensure that policies that a made by the government regarding the application of LBT are implementable. The role of the Government is to create the environment that will favour the application of LBT though different policies. E.g. CIP
- ATTI should not base on training of LBT only on road woks, but should also expand LBT training to other areas like management of solid waste.
- Donor agencies and Government should cooperate to ensure sustainability of LBT.
- Proper Mechanism in monitoring and evaluating; Joint coordination committee for Taking the use of LBT to scale Programme should be Strengthened and have regular meetings and be effective.
- Women Participation on Road works should be encouraged by training more women Contractors. Also Entrepreneurial capacities should be built to these women contractors so that they can be able to survive in the market and benefit from the business.
The seminar was officially closed by Dr. Salewi from ILO.
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