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D CLOSSING DAY

Capacity Building for Effective Safety

Oversight

by Margaret Kyarwenda,

Secretary General, African Association of Training Organizations (AATO)

Kyarwenda outlined that the aviation training needs Africa. She outlined that AATO was promoting coopera-
were focused on the technological change, emerging tion among its members while service as a link between
aviation threats, ageing personnel, USAOP audit results, the ATOs and airlines, AMOs, airports and regulators.
regional cooperation within Africa and the single air She highlighted that AATO has developed a framework
transport market for Africa with Africa’s top 10 training for establishment of centers of excellence, standardiza-
needs were on engineering, pilot training, airport securi- tion of training programmes and has published reports
ty, cabin crew, aircraft maintenance and air traffic on status of aviation training needs and resources.
control. She indicated that the opportunities in training
Africa was on replacing of ageing personnel, Abinitio, She further elaborated that AATO membership facili-
Basic, Advanced, Specialization, Management, Training tates access to cost effective training facilities, better
inspectors and English proficiency. She identified the visibility for training organization and common accep-
challenges being lack of sufficient means to devote on tance and recognition of training and certificates, pool-
training, unavailability of reliable data on ATOs and lack ing of instructors and course materials, access to
of coordination & cooperation between ATOs and states. standardized curriculum and a platform to address
training issues. She concluded that financial support
She indicated that AATO was established to improve on was crucial, a means of training experts was necessary
safety, security and efficiency of air transport with the and that AATO would continue to work with CASSOA to
main objective of establishment and maintenance of achieve effective harmonized training in Africa.
high standards and harmonization of aviation training in

Collaborative Training to Enhance

Aviation Safety in EA region

by Mugambi N’nchebere,
Director East African School of Aviation.

Mugambi outlined that aviation is a key contributor to He further lamented that aviation training is costly due
world economy that’s faced with three challenges of to the high cost of equipment and instructors that’s
inadequate infrastructure, safety and security concerns compounded by fragmented training leading to few
and lack of skilled personnel. Two of these challenges trainees per ATO that’s below break-even level that
can be addressed through effective training.

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