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The COMESA-Leather and Leather Products Institute’s Experts Team, led by the Institute’s Executive Director, Prof. Mwinyikione Mwinyihija, and composed of the Institute’s Leather Value Chain Expert and two consultants from UV Enterprises from Chennai, India was on Mission to Sudan from 23 to 29 August 2016. The purpose of the Mission was to design and complete the necessary drawings for the construction of a Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) for the Leather City in ElGaily Industrial Area, Khartoum, and to discuss with the officials and concerned stakeholders on the best way forward for the Sudan Leather Value Chain Strategy.
The Expert Team conducted a need assessment survey for the CETP design by visiting the site and meeting with the various stakeholders from August 24 to 27, 2016. The Team was also received by the Honorable Ministers of the Ministry of Industry & Investment, Ministry of Human Development & Labour, Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Resources & Irrigation, and Ministry of Trade to discuss on the best way forward for the Sudan Leather Value Chain Strategy implementation. Kerari Vocational Training Center, Sudan University of Sciences and Technology, SSMO, Ministry of Environment, Khartoum State Sanitary Corporation and National Leather Technology Center were among institutions the Team visited, in line with both the CETP design and Sudan Leather Value Chain Strategy Implementation.
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The Experts Team generated the necessary data for the design, process and engineering drawings, capacity planning and detailed cost estimate for the CETP Project. The newly established Sudan Leather Council also held its first inaugural meeting during the Mission period. Other major accomplishments of the Mission encompassed: possibility of extending SME training at Kerari Vocational Training Center for other States in Sudan; the Private Sector link into the Kerari Vocational Training Center Advisory Board; potential of advancing training in leather technology into Levels II & III, based on the approved curriculum; operationalization of the Sudan Leather Development Council; the Implementation of RISM Project in the areas of capacity building of SMEs; strengthening of Kerari Vocational Training Center to become a Satellite Design Studio of the COMSec-LLPI Regional Design Studio; implementation of Traceability to strengthen the Sudan Leather Value Chain Strategy; tools and equipment support to Kerari and Sudan University of Science and Technology (SUST)- Technological Leather Industry Incubator; mainstreaming of the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Resources & Irrigation Agriculture into the implementation of the National Leather Value Chain Strategy; and many more such achievements.
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