Strategic Goals/Objectives
01.
—Skills Building for professional driving
• Seek accreditation status with Directorate of Industrial Training (MoES) for certification of informal drivers.
• Strategically position to offer professional driver testing and accreditation
• Collaborate establishment of a National Qualification framework for drivers roll out programme for specialized and continuous driver professional development
02.
— Advocacy for road
Reform on driver training, assessment and grading of permits
• Standard and Accreditation system for driver/instructor training schools
• Independent driver competence assessment agency (not police)
• Driver permit grading to be based on driver specialty training and competence
03.
—Institutional strengthening for drivers organizations
Governance and management of drivers’ organisations
• Review and strengthen leadership and management systems for UPDN member drivers organisations
• Design needs based capacity building programme to strengthen governance and management systems
04.
—UPDN organization strengthening
Governance and management
• Review governance and management policies, structures and systems to align organizational structure and resources with strategy
• Strengthen financial and staff management systems
• Establish a one stop data/resource centre on driving industry and road safety
• Expand organisations footprint through regional offices
Current projects!
Health
Coordinate community based approaches to improved health and wellness of drivers in Uganda through;
Coordinating HIV services demand among truck drivers in Uganda with support from Global Fund for TB/HIV through MARPI-ending December 2020
Road Safety
We have started implementation of World Bank support to Skills Development Facility (PSFU) under a consortium of UPDN, UDSA, Safe Way Right Way aiming at training and certifying 4 Heavy Goods Vehicle Driver trainers and 150 HGV drivers for anticipated oil and gas sector. Under this project we have support for development of a database to market professionally trained and certified drivers in Uganda
