AFRICAN ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS PORTAL

Engineering is critically important for the creation of infrastructure to better serve communities, enable better healthcare and access to education, and to accelerate industrial development to grow economies and attract foreign investment. Access to engineers and growing engineering capacity to match demand is key to supporting economic growth and improvement in living standards. There is engineering capacity in Africa, but often it is overlooked in favour of international engineering teams, which undermines the opportunities for local engineering companies to grow, and to develop local expertise and local graduates. The African Engineering Professionals Portal (AEP) is aimed at promoting African engineering capacity and allowing African engineering practitioners to network and support each other in delivering engineering solutions to the continent... Recognising the need to strengthen professional engineering institutions (PEIs) in Africa, the London-based Royal Academy of..