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researchers, economic analysts and media. This increase the overall implementation rate.
trend demonstrates that the iSTARS and API data
service are successfully meeting their purpose of
providing users an accessible, quick and convenient
interface.

3.5 iMPLEMENT programme

Closely tied to the self-explanatory No Country Left
Behind initiative, iMPLEMENT was launched to
support the evolution of safety performance
according to safety management practices. It is a
data-driven decision-making process aimed at
helping decision makers such as directors general
of civil aviation authorities or transport ministers to
take well-informed decisions by following a number Fig. 8 – State safety briefing – Performance dashboard
of steps:
• the assessment of the current status of avia-
tion in terms of connectivity and safety;
• the identification and prioritization of areas
with the potential of improvement and/or de-
velopment;
• the identification of the best solutions availa-
ble to address prioritized needs;
• the production of advice on how resources
can be utilized efficiently to maximize the po-
tential of the aviation sector; and
• the identification of potential donors and in-
vestors through existing national, regional or Fig. 9 – Example of a State safety briefing – Details
global mechanisms.

For each step, a number of tools available on the Another tool, the Solution Center application is
iSTARS platform have been created to fulfil different designed to identify the best solutions available to
purposes. These tools may be used following the address the prioritized needs by linking available
logical sequence provided by the iMPLEMENT global aviation training packages in order to
methodology to achieve the required results. Many ultimately address implementation issues
of these applications use the safety audit data from identified through the USOAP.
ICAO’s audit programme (USOAP CMA) and merge
it with other data available such as traffic as sources Another useful tool is the Human Resource toolkit
for the analyses they produce. for Civil Aviation Authorities (CAA-HRT), which is
an online application designed to respond to the
A first example of these tools are the regional, State needs expressed by States on the scaling of their
and airport safety briefings, designed to facilitate staff, in particular regarding how many inspectors
access to safety-critical information. They contain are needed to address the oversight responsibilities
relevant safety information such as USOAP EI values, of a State. The tool contains two main components:
significant safety concerns, fatal accidents, (1) a benchmarking tool, which compares States on
aerodrome certification based on audit questions, their reported number of staff and their activity in
the State safety programme implementation based terms of number of aircraft, aerodromes and
on the SSP gap analysis tool and PBN operators overseen and (2) the Manpower Planning
implementation. By using this information available tool which provides a basic approach for the
in the briefings, it is possible to derive a calculation of inspector man-hours based on the
prioritization suggestion on which areas and various types of certification and surveillance
protocol questions a State should work on to activities of a State.

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