PROMOTING A HEALTHY COMPETITION CULTURE IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
February 14-15, 2008, Gaborone, Botswana

CUTS International announces an international competition conference to be held on 14th – 15th February 2008 in Gaborone (Botswana) to mark the culmination of the project entitled, “Capacity Building on Competition Policy in Select Countries of Eastern and Southern Africa” (7Up3 Project). Ministry of Trade and Industry (Botswana) and Botswana Council for Non-Government Organisations (BOCONGO) would partner CUTS in organising this conference. The conference would showcase the outcomes of the project (www.cuts-international.org/7up3.htm)  and trace the path for the future on competition policy and law in the region.

In addition to drawing project partners and other stakeholders from the seven project countries, this conference (entitled – “Promoting A Healthy Competition Culture In Sub-Saharan Africa”) would also offer an opportunity for competition scholars and practitioners from the continent and outside to engage in the discourse on the road ahead for evolving effective competition regimes in sub-Saharan Africa.

For the last couple of years, CUTS has been implementing the 7Up3 project to develop the understanding of multiple stakeholders on the need for a functional competition regime in select countries of eastern and southern Africa. The project has been undertaken in Botswana, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia and Uganda with support from the Department for International Development (U.K.) and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norway).

For more details, contact:
Rijit Sengupta
rsg@cuts.org, c-cier@cuts.org
(+91) 98 292 85928