By; Newsroom
Makerere University Visitation Committee Chairman and Deputy Chairperson of National Planning Authority, Dr Abel Rwendeire has been pronounced dead from Nakasero Hospital this morning due to heart failure.
Rwendeire joined NPA in July 2008 following his four year tenure as a Managing Director the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), in Vienna, Austria from 2002 to 2006.
He was responsible for the formulation, implementation and evaluation of innovative programmatic initiatives in Industrial Promotion and Technology; Agro-Industries; Small and Medium Enterprises; Energy and Cleaner Production as well as providing strategic advice to the Director General of UNIDO on all aspects of technical cooperation services in Industrial, Technological and Economic issues for sustainable industrial development.
Prior to joining UNIDO, Rwendeire was MP for Rubanda County East from 1996 to 2002. And also served as a Minister of State for Tourism, Trade and Industries between 1996 and 1998 and also as a Minister of State for Higher Education from 1998 to, laying a foundation, for the establishment of Uganda Vocational Qualifications Framework with a view to integrating the informal sector into the main stream formal educational processes.
Before joining Politics, Dr Rwendeire had contributed significantly to the development and management of technical and vocational education when he was the Principal of Uganda Polytechnic Kyambogo (1992-1996) in the Ministry of Education and Sports.
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