Capacity Building Activities
Under the 7up4 Project
Cornelius Dube
CUTS Centre for Competition,
Investment & Economic Regulation
(CUTS C-CIER)
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Capacity Building
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Process of creating an enabling environment through
appropriate policy and legal frameworks, institutional
development and stakeholder participation
7up4 context
To develop constituencies on competition policy and law in
the project countries
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Training
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Training in the form of workshops
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At national level; national training workshop (NTW)
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NTW for basics of competition administration
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At regional level; regional training workshop (RTW)
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RTW for regional competition enforcement issues
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Schedule of Trainings
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Seven national and two regional training workshops
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One Anglophone and one for Francophone
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NTW in each country during same period
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Scheduled for the second year of project
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Training Workshop Agenda
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Domestic competition issues ( RBPs, M&As, etc)
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Interaction between competition and regulation
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Competition and Consumer protection
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Competition policy and IPRs
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International competition policy issues (cross border
issues; regional competition administration etc)
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NB: Other issues as per findings to be discussed.
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Resource Persons
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International renowned experts on competition policy
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Preferably from region; outside with region orientation
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Practitioners, academics, legal experts etc
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CUTS- for assistance
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To distribute structured training materials
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Workshop participants
National workshops
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Critical stakeholders for national competition administration
 Government, practitioners, civil society, business etc
Regional workshops
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Only national practitioners to attend RTW
 Regulatory agency, government department, regional
authority, competition agency, etc
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Role of CUTS Partners
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Core researchers for project
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Identification of training needs
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Finalisation of research agenda
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Identification and communication with stakeholders
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Organisation of National Training Workshop
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Assist in RTW (host country)
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