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to project success as is meeting the legal and regulatory requirements.
The inadequate consideration of SLO issues can have significant negative
project impacts in terms of cost and time overruns. In order to prevent
these unwanted outcomes, and/or better manage them when they arise,
the community of stakeholders needs to come together and collaborate
in terms of finding a way forward. Effectively managing the information
concerning and understanding of the projects by the stakeholders is vital.
Notably, effective public participation and timely access to information
by members of the community is integral in fostering SLO.
Going forward, certain adjustments may be considered in addition to
the collaborative efforts of the community of stakeholders in fostering
and in continuously maintaining SLO. National and regional governments may also consider statutory intervention so as to create mandatory
legally binding obligations. This is in order to firmly cement the established industry standards which are practised through the CSR initiatives
which the companies already adopt and to keep industry players accountable to those standards. However, this needs to be addressed with a
measure of urgency noting that matters concerning SLO are fluid and
continue to adapt as projects develop and simultaneously, laws and
regulations are only as good as their enforcement. This means that
governments need to dedicate adequate man-power, finances, as well as
create the institutional integrity that is necessary for building and maintaining credible SLO within the promising oil and gas sector in East
Africa.
Bibliography
Abdalla H, ‘Uganda Oil Refinery Gets $20M Funding From AFC’ (The East
African, 2019). https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/business/Uganda-oil-ref
inery-gets-usd-20-million-funding-from-afc/2560-5359440-6jwv8cz/index.
html. Accessed May 27, 2020.
‘About Energy | EACOP, A 1,500 Km Pipeline for The Energy Future’
(Aboutenergy.com). https://www.aboutenergy.com/en_IT/topics/eacop-eng.
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to project success as is meeting the legal and regulatory requirements.
The inadequate consideration of SLO issues can have significant negative
project impacts in terms of cost and time overruns. In order to prevent
these unwanted outcomes, and/or better manage them when they arise,
the community of stakeholders needs to come together and collaborate
in terms of finding a way forward. Effectively managing the information
concerning and understanding of the projects by the stakeholders is vital.
Notably, effective public participation and timely access to information
by members of the community is integral in fostering SLO.
Going forward, certain adjustments may be considered in addition to
the collaborative efforts of the community of stakeholders in fostering
and in continuously maintaining SLO. National and regional governments may also consider statutory intervention so as to create mandatory
legally binding obligations. This is in order to firmly cement the established industry standards which are practised through the CSR initiatives
which the companies already adopt and to keep industry players accountable to those standards. However, this needs to be addressed with a
measure of urgency noting that matters concerning SLO are fluid and
continue to adapt as projects develop and simultaneously, laws and
regulations are only as good as their enforcement. This means that
governments need to dedicate adequate man-power, finances, as well as
create the institutional integrity that is necessary for building and maintaining credible SLO within the promising oil and gas sector in East
Africa.
Bibliography
Abdalla H, ‘Uganda Oil Refinery Gets $20M Funding From AFC’ (The East
African, 2019). https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/business/Uganda-oil-ref
inery-gets-usd-20-million-funding-from-afc/2560-5359440-6jwv8cz/index.
html. Accessed May 27, 2020.
‘About Energy | EACOP, A 1,500 Km Pipeline for The Energy Future’
(Aboutenergy.com). https://www.aboutenergy.com/en_IT/topics/eacop-eng.
shtml. Accessed May 27, 2020.