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Support for Harmonization of the ICT Policies in Sub-Sahara Africa (HIPSSA)
| Project No | 7RAF08070 |
| Title | Support for Harmonization of the ICT Policies in Sub-Sahara Africa (HIPSSA) |
| Description | The HIPSSA project, which covers the entire Sub-Saharan Africa, supports the regional organizations in up-dating or developing new regional policy and legislative ICT guidelines. In the second phase, the project is offering technical assistance to the Member States for national transposition of the above regional guidelines. Where regional guidelines are already available, technical assistance is offered directly. |
| Area of Action |
Regulatory & Market Environment |
| Status | Implemented |
| Time Frame | From 1/1/2008 To 30/9/2013 |
| Related ITU Webpages |  http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Projects/ITU-EC-ACP/HIPSSA/Pages/default.aspx
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| Beneficiary Countries | Angola, Burundi, Benin, Burkina Faso, Botswana, Central African Rep., Chad, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Dem. Rep. of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Ghana, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mali, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Congo, Rwanda (Republic of), South Africa, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Sao Tome and Principe, Eswatini, Togo, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe |
| Implementing Agency | ITU |
| Cooperation Agency | European Commission, Ministries of Communications/ICT, Regulatory bodies, Regional Organizations (including regional associations of regulators) |
| Financial Scale (CHF) | More than 1'000'000 |
| Achievements |
The HIPSSA project, which covered the entire Sub-Saharan Africa, supported the regional organizations in up-dating or developing new regional policy and legislative ICT guidelines. The project was jointly funded by European Commission and ICT Development Fund. The project achieved to support the regional economic communities and their respective countries to develop and promote harmonised ICT policies and regulatory frameworks. It also supported human and institutional capacity building in the field of ICT through a range of knowledge transfer measures, with the global objective of creating a harmonised ICT market in the region. |
