This newsletter summarizes the activities of the Federation of African Engineering Organizations (FAEO). It introduces the organization, including its vision, mission, and philosophy of promoting engineering excellence across Africa. It provides details on FAEO's recent activities, including meetings held in Ghana, Tunisia, Kigali, and Hong Kong. It also lists upcoming events for FAEO members. The newsletter serves to inform members about FAEO's work and priorities, which include capacity building, international cooperation, and representing African voices on the global engineering stage. It aims to strengthen FAEO and better support engineering development across the continent.

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FEDERATION OF AFRICAN
ENGINEERING ORGANISATIONS
(FAEO)
Official newsletter of the FAEO
EDITORIAL CONTENT
Welcome to the maiden edition of the quarterly Newsletter of
the Federation of African Engineering Organisations (FAEO).
The need to disseminate information on the activities of the
organisation regularly to members of FAEO has become very
compelling necessitating the establishment of the quarterly
newsletter. This maiden edition contains vital information
about the formation and philosophy of FAEO, FAEO's Vision
and Mission, FAEO's recent activities, Country members of
FAEO, FAEO's Secretariat Staff and Upcoming events.
Before the next edition, we will get a full complement of editorial
team consisting of reporters from national members. While we
look forward to bringing to you regular information on
engineering development and practices in Africa and the
activities of FAEO, we welcome you to read with delight and
pleasure the first edition of the quarterly Newsletter!
Rose Nungul
IN THIS ISSUE
• MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
• VISION AND MISSION
• EXCITING QUOTES FROM THE
PRESIDENT ELECT
• MESSAGE FROM THE ACTING EXECUTIVE
DIRECTOR
• FORMATION AND PHILOSOPHY OF FAEO
• UPCOMING EVENTS
• ACTIVITIES OF FAEO
• EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEMBERS
• COUNTRY MEMBERS
• SECRETARIAT STAFF

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MESSAGE FROM THE FAEO PRESIDENT
Introduction and Welcome to our First Edition
It is my greatest honour to welcome you to this first quarterly
newsletter of the Federation of African Engineering
Organisations-(FAEO). I thank our staff and Executive
Council members that put our maiden newsletter together.
FAEO is on a mission to rebrand and deliver on its mandate.
We have amended our constitution, crafted new policies and
strategies as well as reinforced our staff to build a robust
capacity to serve our membership better. We will also go out
to our members and find out through surveys how we can
continuously improve our service. We have recruited new
members and wish to continue to grow and be more visible
by having a bigger voice, increased activities and better
influence in Engineering at the African and World levels. We
will be giving inaugural FAEO awards during the African
Engineering Week. Good luck to all the candidates from
FAEO for the World Federation of Engineering Organisations
(WFEO) elections as well as the standing policy or technical
committees that are hosting.
Increased Capacity
The Federation has recruited a brand-new professional team
to join its Secretariat. I, therefore, wish to introduce to you, Dr.
Alex Momoh, (the Acting Executive Director (ED)) who
replaced our founding ED, Bernard Ordams, Rotimi Famisa,
(the Business Development Manager) and Rose Nungul (the
Marketing and Membership Affairs Manager). I also welcome
the newly formed North Africa Federation of Engineering
Organisations NAFEO to the FAEO family. This will be led by
The Egyptian Syndicate of Engineers (ESE) and the President
will be Eng. Hany Dahy from ESE. This completes the Five
Regions of FAEO, viz, EAFEO, CAFEO, NAFEO, SAFEO and
WAFEO.
The FAEO’s internal capacity has been strengthened as a
result of the Royal Academy of Engineering GCRF African
Catalyst Project Phase 2(ACP2), that we have undertaken in
collaboration with our partners RedR UK. We have also won
two bids during the ACP3 and are hopeful that we will
continue on the pathway of building the FAEO capacity. We
are grateful to the GCRF and the Royal Academy of
Engineering for this continued support. We will be launching
the Scorecard project through the RAEng support as well as
continue with the capacity building of the secretariat under
the ACP3 funding. We have so far held two Executive Council
meetings; the first quarter was in Ghana (AkosomboinMarch)
and the second was in Tunisia (Tunis in June) the third quarter
will be held in Zambia (Livingston in September 2019).
The Africa We Want
Only a strong FAEO can provide human capital,
development, engineering, institutional capacity building and
international cooperation development: the key ingredients to
meet the targets of the SDGs that will deliver the “Africa We
Want”; which envisions the prosperity of all our citizens.
Engineering and other interventions are answers and
enablers for the FAEO Vision 2063 which is inspired by the
AU AGENDA 2063 and the UN Agenda 2030 on SDGs for
people, planet and prosperity and the Strategies contained in
the AU Continental Education Strategy for Africa (CESA) 16-
25 and Science, Technology & Innovation Strategy for Africa
(STISA) 2024.
Re-branding Agenda.
The rebranded FAEO is a great demonstration of the “African Dream”
with activities that continue to show our engineering leadership in Africa
and indeed around the world. FAEO was in Hong Kong from the 9th to
the 14th of June and participated in workshops that discussed
international engineering education standards and the need for
capacity building with key partners including the International
Engineering Alliance and World Federation of Engineering. The World
Construction Forum 2019, which was held in Ljubljana, Slovenia from
the 8th to the 11th April 2019, under the title “Buildings and
Infrastructure Resilience”. The FAEO President chaired the Capacity
building panel of the forum. The International conference on
Engineering and Food Security in Africa held from the 24-25 June 2019
was a great success and resulted in important discussions among
government ministers and policy makers in Kigali, Rwanda, in August.
I also urge FAEO members to also participate in future events during
this year including, the Africa Engineering Week from 15 -21
September in Livingstone Zambia, the SAFEO Engineers Without
Borders Conference in Gaborone, Botswana from the 22-25 October
and the World Engineers Convention (WEC2019) from 20-22
November 2019 in Melbourne, Australia.
A new Strategy and Focus
To this effect we will launch a new five-year FAEO Strategic Plan 2019-
2024 during the Engineering Week in Livingston. The Strategy will put
in place an Engineering Capacity Building Initiative for Africa by FAEO
and other partners, which may be operationalized through the AU
Department of Human Resources, Science and Technology
Agreement of Co-operation which FAEO signed in 2017 that calls for
an Action and Results oriented mindset in our operations in Africa.
The other pillars of the strategy will involve effective international co-
operation with partners through MoUs. We have already signed MoUs
with the Commonwealth Engineering Council (CEC), the African
Electrification Foundation (AEF) and the European Federation of
National Engineering Associations (FEANI). We have also developed
new governance documents, policies on diversity and inclusion,
financial controls and rules of procedure and will be
Need for Impactful Ethical Leadership
FAEO calls for the ethical practice of engineering by infusing
competences that promote professionalism and zero tolerance to
corruption and high levels of integrity among its members. I wish you
all a fruitful year and hope to meet you soon. Words are in vain unless
followed by concrete action.
I wish you all a great reading pleasure.
FAEO PRESIDENT, ENG. MARTIN MANUHWA

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OUR VISION
To be the leading engineering professional body offering
sustainable development solutions for the benefit of humanity
in Africa and beyond.
OUR MISSION
To serve humanity through the use of innovative technologies.
To represent the engineering profession in Africa and
internationally.
Promote the value of engineering in society
To act as the unified voice of the profession.
To contribute resources, synergies and expertise in partnership
with key stakeholders to accomplish the transfer and
assimilation of the value of the best practice principles of
sustainable development.
Ensure an appropriate level of efficient human resource
capacity in the built environment professions generally and
engineering specifically
To enable Africa to ultimately achieve sustainable development
for all its people.
EQUALITY FOR WOMEN IN AFRICAN
ENGINEERING ORGANISATIONS: SOME
EXCITING QUOTES FROM THE
PRESIDENT-ELECT, ENG, CARLIEN BOU-
CHEDID
On March 8, 2019, International Women’s Day, FAEO announced and
celebrated the appointment of its first female President-Elect, Eng.
Carlien Bou-Chedid. Read some fantastic quotes from her below:
On why she took up engineering; ‘I began to realise that it was a
profession that would allow me to innovate and satisfy my passion
for creating things’
A call to arms; ‘I would like to call on African governments to
step up efforts to remove the obstacles to women’s
participation in engineering so as to achieve gender
equality in the profession within the shortest possible time’
MESSAGE FROM THE ACTING
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
The global world view on Africa has not changed much from a continent
ravaged by extreme poverty, corruption, disease, hunger and unending political
strife for corrupt leadership. Africa’s contribution to global peace, scientific and
technological development as a collective is not significantly impressive. Africa
has remained a continent of beggars perpetually living on the trap of aids.
Metaphorically, Africa is in the group of continents with the largest share of
natural resources endowment but the least developed.
For this tag to remain in the 21st century when the world is moving at a
technologically faster pace than ever before is unacceptable. The narratives
must change. A new paradigm shift is urgently desired. Global sustainable
development has been hinged on Engineering, Science and Technology as the
focal enablers of sustainable development.
If Africa must get out of its present unpalatable underdevelopment conditions,
the continent must adopt Engineering, Science and Technology as the critical
path to holistic and all-encompassing techno-sociological development.
Africans must take the destiny of Africa in their hands. The elites of Africa
must form a common front to engender sustainable development of the
continent. African Engineers, innovators and entrepreneurs must form common
platforms to come together for synergy. Which body is most suited to lead the
crusade on the technological front for conglomeration of African professionals
than the Federation of African Engineering Organizations (FAEO)?
National members of FAEO must work together to support FAEO to meet its
independence and freedom so that its leadership can always speak truth to
power without inhibitions. Africa’s independence is by words and not true
actions yet.
It is however not all a sad tale about Africa. The continent has a good
percentage of its vast human resources that are individually outstanding
globally in scientific and technological fields. FAEO has to create an inventory
of these notable African resources in diaspora and develop engagement
strategies to make them work for the development of the continent.
FAEO must not live on aids! Its activities have to be largely funded by Africa. I
urge our national members to work hard to create visibility for engineering
practice in their respective countries in order to create relevance for FAEO.
APPOINTMENT OF ENGR. DR OKOPI ALEX MNS, FNSE ACTING EXECUTIVE
DIRECTOR
Dr. Okopi Alex Momoh is the newly appointed Acting Executive Director of
FAEO. He is a fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) and doubles
as the substantive Executive Secretary of the NSE. He holds an HND in
Mechanical Engineering from Kaduna Polytechnic, an MSc in Industrial
Engineering and Production Management from Cranfield University; a Post
Graduate Diploma in management and MBA from Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
University Bauchi, and PhD in Production Engineering from Bayero University,
Kano, Nigeria.
Dr. Momoh who worked briefly in UK, also worked in some notable industries in
Nigeria before he took up appointment as a lecturer in Kaduna Polytechnic from
where he was appointed Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Society of
Engineers in January 2019. He has been a very active member of NSE and was
National Chairman of the Nigerian Institution Mechanical Engineers. He has
been involved in Engineering Services and Management training for some
organizations in Nigeria. Dr. Okopi Momoh brings to the job of the FAEO a rich
and diverse wealth of experience. He is in charge of the Corporate
Headquarters of the Nigerian Society of Engineers, the same building that
hosts the FAEO. We are confident that his caliber of experience will help deliver
the leadership that we all seek for a stronger FAEO and the he will forge better
partnerships with the Royal Academy of Engineering and other global partners
for sustainable engineering development and practice in Africa to achieve the
Africa we want

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FORMATION AND PHILOSOPHY OF
FAEO
The Federation of African Engineering Organizations, a
non-
governmental organisation was formed at the Nairobi
General Assembly in 2012 to replace the
Federation of African Organizations of Engineering
(FAOE) which was established in Cairo, Egypt in 1972
by a number of African Engineering Organizations. The
FAEO Secretariat is located at the Nigerian Society of
Engineers (NSE) Headquarter in Abuja, Nigeria. It
represents the interests of national engineering
organiszations in Africa. It is the central united home for
Africa Engineering Organizations with the primary
objectives of achieving engineering excellence and
creating a better quality of life for the people of Africa.
FAEO is composed of African engineering organizations
members, known as National members, as well as
Regional members.
FAEO represents Africa in the World Federation of
Engineering Organisations (WFEO) and any
international organisation with engineering and
sustainable development interests. FAEO has the
primary focus on promoting Science, Engineering,
Innovation and Technology as key enablers for Africa's
socio-economic development which creates prosperity
and a better quality of life for African people through
engineering excellence.
WHAT WE WILL DO
Now that our internal capacity has been strengthened, we are in a better
position to support you – this is a snapshot of what we plan to do for our
members!
FAEO will represent its members where their voices cannot
be heard FAEO in collaboration with its partners RedR UK will
design and deliver, programmes to its members to suit their
needs and be self-sustainable FAEO through partnership with
its peer groups CEC, UNESCO and AEF will attend and
support its members programmers’ including the
underrepresented like Young Engineers and women
Engineers
FAEO is an umbrella body for Africa professional Engineering
Institutions that will take a lead to promote Transparency
Diversity and Inclusion of its members
Starting in August we will be sending out a survey to Professional
Engineering Institutions (PEIs) in Africa as part of a needs assessment.
This will assist FAEO to understand if there are areas of improvement,
and ensure we are tailoring our learning programmes to better support
you in the areas most important to you. Keep an eye for this survey being
sent to you soon – the more information you can give us about what you
would like from the FAEO, the more tailored our operations can be and
the more supportive and excellent services you will get from FAEO! Do
not hesitate to grasp this exciting opportunity - give us more feedback
to better serve you!
UPCOMING EVENTS
Whats coming to you soon!
Our needs assessment for PEIs in August 2019 be part
of this. Give us more feedback to super service you!
World Engineers Convention WEC
Australia 2019
20-22 November
VISIT:https://www.wec2019.org.au/
The Nigerian Society of Engineers
Kano 2019 Conference
Theme: Building Resilient Infrastructure to promote sustainable Industrial
Growth
Visit: https://conference.nse.org.ng/

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ACTIVITIES
Week in Kigali, Rwanda
The Executive Board and Staff of the Federation of African
Engineering Organisations (FAEO) were in Kigali 27th April - 4
May 2019.
The Royal Academy of Engineering called their partners in
their eight projects under the current Phase 2 of the Africa
Catalyst Project in their Global Challenges Research Fund
(GCRF) to come together to do a midterm review of the
projects. Participants gathered at the meeting venue, the
Hotel Des Milles Collines, Kigali, from Sunday, April 28 to
Tuesday, April 30. Project leaders, joined by their UK partners,
presented their different experiences so far in the projects.
The FAEO (represented by the FAEO President, Engr. Martin
Manuhwa,theFAEOTreasurer,Engr.AdeoluOdusote,andthe
Executive Director of FAEO, Mr. Bernard Ordams)
accompanied by ReDR representatives (Miss Alison Ely and
MissKatieBitten)gavepresentationsamongothersonFAEO’s
capacity building project. The report was well critiqued but
positively received. It was a very engaging experience.
Week in Kigali, Rwanda
Eng. Adeolu Odusote (Treasurer)
The FAEO standing committees and Executive Committee have
been continuing to represent the interests of African
Engineering on the world stage. Please visit our website to
read more about the events! website:www.faeo.org
International Engineering Alliance meeting 2019, Hong
Kong
One of the goals and missions of the project, is to establish
relationships with other engineering organisations. At the
International Engineering Alliance Meeting, Eng. Martin
Manuhwa forged relations that will strengthen the capacity of
African Engineering Institutions ‘capacity and capabilities in
accreditation.
Report of WFEO Anti-Corruption Committee, chaired by Eng. Manuhwa
The Committee was charged with the objective of Building WFEO National
Member’s Anti-Corruption Capacity for Value Delivery and Business Integrity
in infrastructure projects. Its vision is to promote zero tolerance to
corruption. This will reduce corruption in engineering projects and practice
through the enforcement of sound management systems and ethical
professional practice.
Its mission is to execute thematic, results-oriented (with agreed
outcomes/impacts) programmes for 2017-2019 that raises ethics and
corruption prevention awareness and increases the understanding of the
global, regional, engineering and policy issues and solutions for
combating corruption to induce transparency in infrastructure and other
vital services.
The team:
SomeofourdelegatestotheWorldConstructionForum
Visit to Nigeria, 14th- 19th of January
Eng. Martin Manuhwa, President of FAEO, paid a visit to the President of the
Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE,) Engr. Mokuolu, FNSE, NSE hosts the
FAEO Secretariat. Eng. Manuhwa, Engr. Mustafa B. Shehu, FNSE (Past
President) and the formal Executive Director Mr. Bernard Ordams also visited
the Executive Director of the African Union Scientific Technical Research
Commission (STRC) in Abuja. Dr. Ahmed Hamdy on the FAEO/AU signed a
Memorandum of Understanding. It was a strategy visit to implement the
objectives of the MoU.
The Indian Engineering Institution were some of
the delegates at IEA meeting 2019. Here
they present a gift to Eng. Manuhwa.
President Eng. Martin Manuhwa in warm handshakes with the
Executive Director of STRC AU Dr. Eng. Handy

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FAEO First quarterly meeting in Akosombo, Ghana 23rd - 27th
March 2019
The FAEO President, Eng. Martin Manuhwa was satisfied with
the large turnout at the First Quarterly Executive Council
meeting of FAEO. At the meeting he asked for the support of the
Executive Committee members to enable his tenure to be a
successful one with notable achievement. Additionally, he
promised to run FAEO transparently and with the support of his
team.
Among other things discussed was the implementation strategy
of the FAEO/African Union signed MoU.
Cross-Section of delegates at the 1st quarterly Executive
Council meeting in Akosombo, Ghana
OperationalizationoftheNorthAfricanFederationofEngineering
Organisation-NAFEO in Tunis.
During the 2nd quarter meeting of FAEO Executive Committee
members, The Chief of High Council of the Egyptian Syndicate of
Engineers, Eng. Hany Dahy, was named as the first President of the
NAFEO. The FAEO President, Eng. Martin Manuhwa, mandated them to
elect other cabinet members.
Cross-Sectionofdelegatesatthe2ndquarterlyExecutive
Council meeting in Tunis, Tunisia
FAEO/WFEO Diplomatic Mission in Paris, 27th January 2019
Among other things, the delegates lobbied for a declaration on
International Day for Engineering for sustainable Development.
on the 4th of March of every year. There was a meeting with
Ambassadors of Francophone and other member countries of
UNESCO and encouraged them to join FAEO.
Hong Kong 7th ICAC Symposium
The WFEO and FAEO participated at the 7th Independent Commission
(ICAC) Symposium and the World Justice Project. The theme was
Fighting Corruption: A New Perspective which was held from 22nd to
the 24th of May 2019 in Hong Kong. Eng. Martin Manuhwa, who is also
the president of the federation of African engineering organisations
(FAEO), spoke extensively on tackling corruption in the construction
sector by highlighting that all stakeholders should be involved and held
accountable to best practices and the rule of law. As a means of curbing
bribery, Martin called on Governments, organisations and Financial
Institutions to insist on dealing with organisations that are ISO 37001
compliant (theanti-bribery management system standard).
Cross-SectionofdelegatesattheDiplomaticMissionin
Paris, France
Cross-Section of delegates at 7th ICAC Symposium

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PHOTO SPEAKS
FAEO and RedR UK at Azizi s Art StudioKigali, Rwanda
Presentation by Eng. Martin Manuhwa @ IEA Meeting, HongKong,
2019
FAEO and RedR UK at Governance workshop, Kigali, Rwanda 1-4
May 2019
FAEO President visit to Abuja-Nigeria with the President Nigeria
SocietyofEngineersEngr.AdekunleMokuolu,andFAEOstaff
Tunis meeting 2019
Cross-Section of the International Seminar on the theme:
Disruptive Technologies Shaping the future of Innovations, Mauritius
EXCO First quarterly meeting, Akosombo, Ghana, 2019 A caption of Eng. Carlien Bou-Chedid during the NSE Conference
diner, Abuja-Nigeria

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EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEMBERS
PRESIDENT, Eng. Martin Manuhwa
PRESIDENT-ELECT, Eng. Carlien Bou-
Chedid
PAST PRESIDENT, Eng. Julius Riungu
ACTING EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, Engr Dr.
Okopi Alex Mommoh
TREASURER, Eng. Adeolu Odusote
VICE PRESIDENT WAFEO, Engr. Otis
Anyeaji
VICE PRESIDENT SAFEO, Eng. George
Sitali
VICE PRESIDENT EAFEO, Eng. Ngwisa
Mpembe
VICE PRESIDENT NAFEO, Eng. Hany
Dahy
VICE PRESIDENT CAFEO, Eng. Francis
Happi
All Chairs of Standing Technical
Committees
FAEO COUNTRY MEMBERS
SECRETARIAT STAFF
ENGR. DR. OKOPI ALEX MOMO,
ACTING EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
ENG. ROTIMI FAMISA,
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
MANAGER
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