Top management from the Presidential Industrial Skilling Hub, led by Eng. Raymond Kamugisha, Director of Presidential Projects and Industrial Hubs, held strategic discussions with officials from the Uganda Vocational and Technical Assessment Board (UVTAB) at the National Skills Assessment Centre in Kyambogo.
The engagement focused on aligning the assessment and certification of Skilling Hub trainees with the new national standards set under the TVET Act 2025. UVTAB is mandated to oversee the assessment and certification of candidates across Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) programmes, ensuring that trainees possess competencies aligned with industry demands.
Welcoming the State House team, UVTAB Executive Secretary Mr. Oyesigye Onesmus reaffirmed the board’s readiness to collaborate with the Skilling Hub to improve the quality and relevance of training provided.
“UVTAB is a new board which comes under the TVET Act 2025, and we have been assigned the mandate of assessing and certification of all TVET qualifications from level 1 up to level 4 of the TVET qualification framework,” Mr. Oyesigye said.
“Our role will be to assess the students but also to review the Annual Teaching Plans (ATPs) they have been using and make sure that they are in tandem with the new registration as far as the TVET Act is concerned.”
Eng. Kamugisha said the meeting was crucial to ensure the Presidential Skilling Hub’s training model conforms to the evolving national technical education framework. “We are here to make sure that the project is formalised whereby Ugandans can get a skill, assessed and given a qualification,” he explained. “Out of our discussions, we are going to make ATPs that are tailored to meet the needs of the people.”
He also emphasised the origins and purpose of the Presidential Industrial Hubs initiative. “The Presidential Industrial Hub was started by H.E. the President to tap into the masses of Uganda, especially the young people who lack jobs and skills to get employed,” said Eng. Kamugisha. “This project also benefits those people who never went to school at all—free of charge.”
Highlighting progress so far, he noted that “we have so far skilled 16,169 youth under the Presidential Hub project and over 60,000 from Kampala Skilling. We have 19 Presidential Industrial Hubs across the country and 9 skilling centres within Kampala. Interestingly, once you finish, we now give you startup capital through the district SACCOs.”
The collaboration is expected to strengthen the credibility of qualifications awarded to graduates from the Presidential Skilling Hubs and increase their chances of gainful employment in Uganda’s formal and informal job markets.
