National conference on construction sector to be held in Yemen

The Ministry of Public Works and Roads, together with concerned bodies, is preparing to hold a national conference on the construction sector aiming to improve the implementation mechanisms of the construction sector, according to an official source at the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation.

The conference will be held in cooperation and coordination with the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation and the World Bank in order to assess the construction sector and its needs like rehabilitation, training, and identifying its strengths and addressing its weaknesses, which would contribute to accelerating the projects’ implementation and increase the capacity of foreign funds and projects funded locally.

The Ministry of Public Works and Roads revealed in a report submitted to the Cabinet, the causes of the projects’ failures, and that the most important of the causes was the assignment of projects to unqualified contractors in terms of technical and financial capabilities, and also the expansion of implementation contracts beyond the financial capabilities of the investment budgets of the Ministry and its technical and personnel capabilities.

It also includes other reasons behind the failure of projects, particularly when the contractors, in preparing the design of their projects, did not prepare the projects’ studies and design works, and the absence of an organizational vision for scheduling projects already underway.

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