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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 |
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| 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 (Republic of), Burundi (Republic of), Benin (Republic of), Burkina Faso, Botswana (Republic of), Central African Republic, Chad (Republic of), Cameroon (Republic of), Cabo Verde (Republic of), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea (Republic of), Eritrea, Ethiopia (Federal Democratic Republic of), Gabonese Republic, Gambia (Republic of the), Guinea-Bissau (Republic of), Ghana, Guinea (Republic of), Côte d'Ivoire (Republic of), Kenya (Republic of), Lesotho (Kingdom of), Liberia (Republic of), Madagascar (Republic of), Mauritius (Republic of), Mali (Republic of), Malawi, Mozambique (Republic of), Namibia (Republic of), Niger (Republic of the), Nigeria (Federal Republic of), Congo (Republic of the), Rwanda (Republic of), South Africa (Republic of), Senegal (Republic of), Seychelles (Republic of), Sierra Leone, South Sudan (Republic of), Sao Tome and Principe (Democratic Republic of), Eswatini (Kingdom of), Togolese Republic, Uganda (Republic of), Tanzania (United Republic of), Zambia (Republic of), Zimbabwe (Republic of) | |
| 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. |
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