Issue 8, September 2012
Small States Network for
Economic Development
Newsletter
10h Board of Trustees meeting
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Twinning projects for 2
2012
Participants attending the
training workshop on
competition case-law,
organised and funded by
the SSNED for senior
public officials and
judges. This workshop
was held in Barbados on
30-31 July 2012.
The SSNED held its 10th meeting of the
Board of Trustees on 12-23 March 2012.
A brief report is presented below.
During this period, the Network completed
four training workshops and a twinning
project. These are described on page 2 of
this Newsletter. The focus of the training
workshops was mainly competition law
and policy, which attracted many judges
from the Pacific, Caribbean, Indian Ocean
and African small states.
Page 3 of the Newsletter presents information about possible projects that could be
organised by the SSNED, should it succeed
in securing funds for this purpose.
On page 4 of this Newsletter information is
given about members of the Network and
about eligibility for membership.
10th Board of Trustees meeting
The 10th meeting of the Board of Trustees of
the SSNED was held electronically by email
communication between 12-23 March 2012.
This procedure was also adopted in previous
meetings mostly in order to save funds.
The Board continued the discussion related to
governance, including amendments to the
statute as well as the adoption of a manual of
procedures following suggestions by an independent evaluator. The secretariat of the
SSNED was commissioned by the World Bank
to draw up the way forward based on the
independent evaluation findings to propose
changes in the Network’s Statute and its Work
Programme. The Secretariat was also requested to draw up a Manual of Working Procedures. The revised statute is available at:
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Projects in the
pipeline
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Members of
SSNED
4
Eligibility for mem4
bership of the SSNED
What’s in this edition?
This newsletter covers the period of February 2012 to September 2012.
Training workshops
for 2012
www.ssned.org/statute and the updated Work
Programme is available at: www.ssned.org/
workprog
As usual, the administrative and financial
reports were presented at the meeting. These
are available online at: http://ssned.org/
tenth_bot_meeting (password protected).
Samoa was appointed Chair of the Board of
Trustees while Mauritius was appointed ViceChair. The Chair and the Vice-Chair of the
Board are elected by the Board itself, for a
period of two years, from among the representatives on a rotating regional basis.
During the meeting it was agreed that the
secretariat should step up its efforts to attract
funds.
Project that could be 4
funded by the SSNED
Issue 8, September 2012
Page 2
Twinning projects in 2012
The SSNED funded a twinning project with the Ministry of Public Infrastructure, Land
Transport & Shipping (MPILTS) in Mauritius as beneficiary institution and Singapore Land
Transport Authority as service provider. Additionally, public officials from the beneficiary
institution visited the service provider to receive hands-on training on the institutional set-up
in Singapore, where the service provider operates.
Beneficiary Institution
Theme
Service Provider
Ministry of Public
Infrastructure, Land Transport and Shipping, Mauritius
Developing Strategic Directions for
the Mauritius Land Transport
Authority
Singapore Land
Transport Authority
Mauritius officials and Senior
Management Staff at the Singapore
Land Transport Authority offices.
Training workshops in 2012
The SSNED organized and funded four workshops for implementation in 2012. The funds
mostly originated from the DGF of the World Bank. Below is a list of training workshops
organized in 2012. Details about these workshops are available at:http://www.ssned.org/
workshops.
Beneficiaries
Theme
Venue
Target date
Pacific Island States
Milestone Judgments in
Competition Law
Australia
10-11 May
2012
Caribbean Small States
Milestone Judgments in
Competition Law
Barbados
30-31 July
2012
Lesotho Students and
Stakeholders
Multidisciplinary Climate
Change Adaptation Studies
Lesotho
18-20 July
2012
African and Indian Ocean
Small States
Milestone Judgments in
Competition Law
Mauritius
24-25 Sept
Participants and resource persons who attended the training
workshop on competition caselaw in Barbados on 30-31 July
2012. The Participants were
judges and senior public officials
from the Caribbean small states.
Participants and resource
persons who attended the
training workshop on competition case-law in Mauritius
on 24-25 September 2012.
The Participants were judges
and senior public officials
from African small states.
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Issue 8, September 2012
PROJECTS IN 2012
Participants at the
workshop on “Best
Practices and Innovative
Ideas in Multidisciplinary
Climate Change
Adaptation Strategies”
held in the National
University of Lesotho in
Roma, Lesotho, 18 -20
July 2012.
TWINNING PROJECTS AND TRAINING WORKSHOPS IN THE PIPELINE
The SSNED periodically receives requests for support in the organisation of twinning projects and training workshops. The
projects below could be organised subject to funding. The Network is currently looking for funds for this purpose.
Twinning Projects
Beneficiary State
Belize
Swaziland
Tonga
Beneficiary Institution
Theme
Possible Service
Provider
Ministry for the Public Service, Governance Improvements and Boundaries
Swaziland Investment Promotion Authority
Developing a National ICT Policy for Belize
COMNET – IT,
Malta
Developing a Competitiveness
Strategy for Swaziland
TBA
Tonga Post Limited
Postal Counter Automation
Barbados Postal
Services
Training Workshops
Host Country
Fiji
Jamaica
Gambia
Trinidad & Tobago
Seychelles
Beneficiaries
Serving and potential judges operating in the Asian and Pacific
small states
Serving and potential judges operating in the Caribbean small states
Theme
Training of Pacific judges on competition law and policy
Host Institution
Fiji National University
Training of small states’ judges on
competition law and policy in the
Caribbean region
Jamaica Fair Trading
Commission
Serving and potential judges operating in the African small states
Public officials operating in the
Caribbean small states
Training of African judges on competition law and policy
Sustainable development strategies
for Caribbean small states
Public officials operating in the
African small states
Sustainable development strategies
for African small states
Gambia Competition
Commission
Sustainable Economic
Development Unit
(SEDU)
Seychelles Institute of
Management
Small States Network for
Economic Development
Page 3
The map shows the
members and the
location of members of
the SSNED. According to
the statute of the SSNED,
Sovereign small states
with a population of 1.5
million or less are eligible
to join the Network as
Members, subject to
agreement of the
majority of the Founding
Members. In special
Membership of SSNED
The conditions for membership in the Network are specified in Article 7 of the Statute of the
Network. There is no financial obligation to join the Network as member. However membership is to be signified by a formal communication sent to the Network from an appropriate
government representative. The notification template is available at www.ssned.org/memberform. As of September 2012, 37 small states have joined the network. Kindly visit http://
ssned.org/membership for additional information on membership.
Projects that could be funded by the SSNED
Training workshops: Small states members
of the SSNED can submit proposals to the
SSNED secretariat for funded workshops. The
themes could include any aspect of economic
and environmental governance. The total funding requested from SSNED would cover cost of
travel, accommodation, and a modest diem for
about 20 trainees and 5 resource persons.
The first step that should be taken by a small
state wishing to avail itself of such funding is to
express interest in a training workshop by filling in the TR1 form available at:
http://www.ssned.org/information_workshops.
Forms should be filled in by a high-ranking
public official operating in the institution that is
requesting assistance More information on
requesting funds for training workshops is
available at http://ssned.org/workshops.
A training workshop
in progress. Professor
William Kovacic,
talking about market
dominance during the
Mauritius training
workshop on
competition case-law.
The workshops of the
SSNED utilized the
services of resourcepersons of
international repute.
Twinning Projects: Small states members of the SSNED can submit proposals
for twinning projects, where a small state
with mature institutional set-ups helps
another small state in institutional and
human resources development. The first
step for a small state wishing to avail itself
of such funding is to express interest in a
twinning project by filling in the TW1 form
available at http://ssned.org/interesttwinning-proj. Forms should be filled in by
a high-ranking public official operating in
the institution that is requesting assistance. All correspondence should be addressed to the SSNED administrator on
admin@ssned.org. More information on
funded twinning projects is available on
http://ssned.org/twinning-proj.
circumstances, sovereign
states with a population
of more than 1.5 million
which share common
interests with small
states may be allowed to
join the Network as
Members. Small nonsovereign jurisdictions
and international/
regional organisations
with membership
consisting mainly of
small states may join the
Network as non-voting
associate. A donor
country or an
organisation can become
a Partner of the Network.
Small States Network for
Economic Development
Annex, Central Bank of Malta
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Valletta VLT 1060
Malta. Phone: (356)-2122-3525
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