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Mozambique Local Content Program Training Opportunities

LOCAL CONTENT WORKING GROUP 

Mozambique holds one of the largest gas reserves in the world. It is projected to generate benefits and opportunities across the entire industry value chain, including the following:

  • Direct impact to more than 10,000 Mozambicans jobs during the construction phase and more than 3,000 in the operations phase.
  • Increase opportunities for small & medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) participation in the goods and service sector such as transportation logistics, civil construction road works, drilling services amongst others.

To boost domestic private sector competitiveness in oil & gas (O&G) projects, the Government of Mozambique, through the Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy and other entities, created the Local Content Working Group (LCG). LCG’s mission is to maximize the added value associated with the O&G projects to ensure the creation of business opportunities and to increase local jobs.

LOCAL CONTENT STRATEGY

The LCG’s Local Content Strategy implementation offers the following opportunities for U.S. companies:  

  • Human Skills Development

    • Establish a public-private partnership to train experienced or recently graduated Mozambican technicians to develop skills for the O&G industry. This initiative will allow the introduction of certified Mozambican labor into O&G projects in the medium and long term until the government’s new Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) centers of excellence are internationally certified. 

    • Collaborate with Mozambican universities and institutes, supporting their activities and trainings to develop the Mozambican workforce and improve cooperation between them and the O&G industry.

  • Strengthening of SMEs 

    • Partner with the National Institute for Standardization and Quality (INNOQ) to offer capacity-building certifications to subcontracted SMEs to provide goods and services to the O&G industry.

    • Establish centrally coordinated Excellence Delivery Centers (EDCs) in the O&G industry to improve the training and capacity building of SMEs.  This will remove the need for International Oil Company (IOC) operator to have its own EDC – as is the case now – and coordinate the country’s training and capacity building initiatives.

    • Support the Institute for Promotion of Small and Medium Enterprises (IPEME) to develop a business center (one stop shop) in the hydrocarbon-rich Province of Cabo Delgado. The Business Center will be responsible to formalize local micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to be eligible to obtain contract work in the O&G industry.

  • Development Financing Lines 

    • SMEs’ access to financing can be limited, caused by high interest rates and lack of attractive long term credit options. U.S. companies and institutions thus have an opportunity to develop contracting finance solutions for SMEs with IOC operators of the O&G projects in Mozambique.

 

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