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