{"id":79638,"date":"2019-06-26T02:36:25","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T00:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=79638"},"modified":"2019-06-26T02:36:25","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T00:36:25","slug":"ncic-launches-consultative-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/06\/26\/ncic-launches-consultative-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"NCIC launches consultative platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Chimwemwe Mangazi: <\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_79642\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79642\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ralph-jooma.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-79642\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ralph-jooma-300x249.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ralph-jooma-300x249.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ralph-jooma.jpg 439w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-79642\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">HOPEFUL\u2014Jooma<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>National Construction Industry Council (NCIC) has established a consultative platform for stakeholders to be brainstorming ways of developing the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.times.mw\/women-shun-construction-industry\/\"> construction industry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The move is also aimed at facilitating effective regulation of the sector.<\/p>\n<p>The first construction sector joint consultative group meeting was held in Lilongwe on Monday under the theme \u2018Excellence through Collaboration in Construction\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Transport and Public Works Minister, Ralph Jooma, said there was a misunderstanding among players on their roles and responsibilities, hence the move.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThere might have been other gatherings before but, perhaps, they were not accommodating every stakeholder so that they could be confronted and given a chance to explain themselves.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSometimes you may think this was supposed to be done by another stakeholder when it is to be done by you; so, this will iron out those misunderstandings,\u201d<\/em> Jooma said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>NCIC Chief Executive Officer, Linda Phiri, said construction sector needed collaborative efforts with stakeholders to be well regulated.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThis will be done annually. We will come up with an action plan,\u201d<\/em> Phiri said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Chimwemwe Mangazi: National Construction Industry Council (NCIC) has established a consultative platform for stakeholders to be brainstorming ways of developing the construction industry. The move is also aimed at facilitating effective regulation of the sector. The first construction sector joint consultative group meeting was held in Lilongwe on Monday under the theme \u2018Excellence through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79643,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79638\/revisions\/79643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}