Uganda Civil Aviation Authority (UCAA) has continued to get involved in a number of sports activities and other events in preparation for the international aviation day (7^th December 2024).

Basketball is the latest sports discipline that has been added on the roster.

The Uganda Civil Aviation Authority’s basketball team joined the other basketball teams from DFCU Bank, Nkumba Plumbers, and Knight Riders during a gala held at the China Communications Construction Company (CCCC) Basketball Court in Entebbe on Saturday, November 30, 2024.

By close of business, Nkumba Plumbers won the day having come top.

Traditionally, the UCAA has been deeply involved in Chess (through the Rwabushenyi memorial open), Golf (seniors championship), Football (Entebbe stakeholders’ league and the Corporate League) as well as the famous aviation run.

UCAA also organizes a stakeholders engagement conference every year.

For starters, the International civil aviation day has been celebrated by the international civil aviation organization (ICAO) since 7^th December 1994, the 50^th anniversary of the signing the Convention on International Civil Aviation.

In 1996, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed that 7^th December was to be the international civil aviation day.

The purpose of International Civil Aviation Day is to help generate and reinforce worldwide awareness of the importance of international civil aviation to the social and economic development of the world, and of the unique role of ICAO in helping states to cooperate and realize a truly global rapid transit network at the service of all mankind.

As the UN and world nations have now adopted Agenda 2030, and embarked on a new era in global sustainable development, the importance of aviation as an engine of global connectivity has never been more relevant to the Chicago Convention’s objectives to look to international flight as a fundamental enabler of global peace and prosperity.

Every five years, coinciding with ICAO anniversaries (2014/2019/2024/2029/etc.), the ICAO Council establishes a special anniversary theme for International Civil Aviation Day.

Between these anniversary years, Council representatives select a single theme for the full four-year intervening period.

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