West African Common Market Project: Regulatory Capacity-Building Project for
UEMOA-ECOWAS Countries – Final Report 2005
Table of
contents
Acknowledgements by the Senior Expert
Executive
summary
Introduction
Report on activities
1 Presentation of the ITU/EC
Project
1.1 Context
1.2 Objectives
of the project
1.3 Training
programme
1.4 Project resources
1.4.1 Resources for the project team
1.4.2 Resources for the 15 beneficiary ECOWAS member
countries
2 Results of the ITU/EC Project
2.1 Action
plan
2.2 Conduct of training
sessions
2.3 Reaction of
beneficiaries
2.3.1
Participation
2.3.2 Country involvement
in the project
2.4 Participation of
experts
2.5 Budget execution
3 Roles and contributions
by the players involved
3.1 International
Telecommunication Union
3.2 European
Commission
3.3 Host countries
3.4
Participants
4 Evaluation of the ITU/EC Project
4.1
Evaluation by beneficiaries
4.1.1 High
spots for the participants
4.1.2
Observations by participants
4.1.3
Recommendations
4.2 Impact on ECOWAS and subregional
expertise
5 Recommendations
5.1 Organization of
training sessions specifically for executives and senior
managers
5.2 Organization of training with regard to
Community directives and follow-up
5.3 Assistance to
certain countries
6 Conclusion
Annexes
Annex 1:
Breakdown of themes
Breakdown of
principal and secondary/recurring topics for the training activities for
2005
Annex 2: Project team job
descriptions
Annex 3: Financial
situation
Annex 4: Action plan
Annex
5: Evaluation forms for the subregional workshops
Subregional training workshop on the ITU Model for the
calculation of costs, tariffs and rates for telephone services
(COSITU)
Subregional training workshop
on Networks and Services – Dakar, Senegal, 18-21 April 2005
Subregional training workshop on Regulatory Practices I –
Accra, Ghana, 4-8 July 2005
Subregional
training workshop on Interconnection – Banjul, Gambia, 11-15 July
2005
Subregional training workshop on
Universal Access/Service – Banjul, Gambia, 19-23 September
2005
Subregional training workshop on
Licensing – Banjul, Gambia, 26-30 September 2005
Subregional training workshop on Scarce Resources – Lomé, Togo,
24-28 October 2005
Subregional training
workshop on Regulatory Practices II – Praia, Cape Verde, 12-16 December
2005
Annex 6: Workshops database
Annex 7: List of experts
Annex 8: Fellowships
status
Annex 9: Outcome of the evaluation of national
workshops in 2006
National training
workshop on the ITU Model for the calculation of costs, tariffs and rates for
telephone services (COSITU) – Bamako, Mali, 6-10 March 2006
List of workshops ITU/EC Project