National Training Workshops on Competition Policy and Law in Eastern and Southern African Countries: Setting the Stage for Competition to Flourish
July-September 2007
 

CUTS International has been implementing a project entitled, "Capacity Building on Competition Policy in Select Countries of Eastern and Southern Africa" (referred to as the 7Up3 project, www.cuts-international.org/7up3.htm) over the last couple of years in seven countries of the region.

As a part of the project implementation process, CUTS had organised an international conference entitled, "Competition Policy, Private Sector Development and Poverty Reduction in Africa" on 29-30 March 2007 in Mauritius to showcase the outcomes of the research relevant for operationalising healthy competition regimes in the countries as well as the region.

Participants (representing multiple stakeholders from the region) in this conference agreed that in order to operationalise competition regimes in the project countries (and indeed the region), it was necessary to develop a competition culture in them. Pursuing this goal it was decided to organise National Training Workshops on Competition Policy and Law would in each of the project countries (i.e., Botswana, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia and Uganda).

These three-day training workshops would target representatives from multiple stakeholder groups (Civil Society, Business Community, Government Departments, Regulatory Agencies, and Media) in the project countries as trainees. Experts and practitioners from the region and outside would be the Resource Persons to provide the training.

As plans stand now, trainings in Mozambique, Botswana and Namibia would be held in the month of July 2007. Ethiopia, Mozambique and Malawi would have their trainings in the month of August 2007. The training in Uganda would be held in September. Three to four international trainers are expected to be engaged in each of these workshops. Experts from France, India, Kenya, South Africa, Switzerland, UK and Zambia have already expressed their interest to be engaged as Resource Persons in these training workshops.
 

For further information, please contact:

Rijit Sengupta
Centre Coordinator and Deputy Head
CUTS Centre for Competition, Investment & Economic Regulation
CUTS International
D-217, Bhaskar Marg, Bani Park,
Jaipur 302 016, India
Mobile: +91 98292 85928
Email: c-cier@cuts.org ; rsg@cuts.org ; 7Up3@cuts.org