Objectives: To provide opportunities for professional networking among practicing infrastructure social scientists and with other professional networks
Intervention Activities
- Mobilising and recruiting professional members into NISSU
- Building and nurturing professional networking
To provide opportunities for professional growth in the area of infrastructure planning, development, operation, supervision, monitoring and evaluation
Intervention Activities
- Identifying professional learning needs and competences
- Developing training curriculum
- Providing professional growth opportunities
- Developing professional growth strategies
- Evaluating professional growth programme
To facilitate access to external opportunities and sources of livelihood
Intervention Activities
- Connecting and seconding members to consultancy projects and jobs
- Providing technical advice and guidance to producing quality deliverables and services
- Facilitating access to post-graduate training opportunities in relevant or preferred field
To institutionalize professional ethics and values in performing professional work under a given settings
Intervention Activities
- Establishing and enforcing a code of conduct for NISSU members
- Establishing guidelines and methodology for executing action and applied research
To facilitate visibility, branding, and marketing of professional members
Intervention Activities
- Maintaining online visibility through professional website, social media channels
- Demonstrating expertise through membership database, and word of mouth referral
- Participating in high visibility projects, events, meeting and community actions
- Building connections outside NISSU
To advocating for the rights and entitlements for the professional members and project beneficiaries
Intervention Activities
- Getting interested in concerns, grievances, issues, and complaints of the project affected people regarding the planning, construction and operation of infrastructure projects
- Advocate for fair and transparent treatment of NISSU members in workplaces
