MIT instates NQP Core Group
ELIJAH MUKUBONDA
Recently, the Ministry of Industrialisation and Trade (MIT) inaugurated the Core Group that will spearhead the implementation of the Revised National Quality Policy (NQP) for 2020 to 2025 period.
The ministry is the lead institution entrusted with a responsibility to oversee the implementation of the National Quality Policy, to ensure compliance to standards of products traded and manufactured locally under the “Growth at Home” strategy. Additionally, the NQP will safeguard all imports to be subjected to quality compliance assessments in order to reduce sub-standard products entering the Namibian market.
The main objective of the revised Quality Policy is to improve the business environment and the quality of product and service, and in doing so, increase both domestic and foreign investor’s confidence.
The NQP is fundamental to the establishment of a robust National Quality Infrastructure (NQI) including all conformity assessment activities. The NQI efficacy is profoundly reliant on a commensurate and supporting Technical Regulation Framework (TRF). The initiated core group is constituted from the following Ministries and institutions, namely: Office of the Prime Minister, Office of the Attorney General, Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry, Ministry of Mines and Energy, Ministry of Health and Social Services, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources and Ministry of Works and Transport. The Core Group will serve at a high-level representation and expected to set up a Task Team consisting of technical officials drawn from Offices, Ministries and Agencies to be represented in the Core Group.
The key group nucleus has a daunting task ahead, among others to establish a fully functional and modern NQI regime in the country, enhance coordination of all conformity assessment activities countrywide, facilitate manufacturing, innovation, production and trade, align the efforts of public and private sectors and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) Development and improve the quality of products and services for expanded global markets.
Recently, the Ministry of Industrialisation and Trade (MIT) inaugurated the Core Group that will spearhead the implementation of the Revised National Quality Policy (NQP) for 2020 to 2025 period.
The ministry is the lead institution entrusted with a responsibility to oversee the implementation of the National Quality Policy, to ensure compliance to standards of products traded and manufactured locally under the “Growth at Home” strategy. Additionally, the NQP will safeguard all imports to be subjected to quality compliance assessments in order to reduce sub-standard products entering the Namibian market.
The main objective of the revised Quality Policy is to improve the business environment and the quality of product and service, and in doing so, increase both domestic and foreign investor’s confidence.
The NQP is fundamental to the establishment of a robust National Quality Infrastructure (NQI) including all conformity assessment activities. The NQI efficacy is profoundly reliant on a commensurate and supporting Technical Regulation Framework (TRF). The initiated core group is constituted from the following Ministries and institutions, namely: Office of the Prime Minister, Office of the Attorney General, Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry, Ministry of Mines and Energy, Ministry of Health and Social Services, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources and Ministry of Works and Transport. The Core Group will serve at a high-level representation and expected to set up a Task Team consisting of technical officials drawn from Offices, Ministries and Agencies to be represented in the Core Group.
The key group nucleus has a daunting task ahead, among others to establish a fully functional and modern NQI regime in the country, enhance coordination of all conformity assessment activities countrywide, facilitate manufacturing, innovation, production and trade, align the efforts of public and private sectors and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) Development and improve the quality of products and services for expanded global markets.
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