Framework for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Telecommunications Regulators in Sub-Saharan Africa
This report develops an assessment framework and decision-making tool that, it is hoped, will facilitate evaluations of the effectiveness of telecommunications regulators in sub-Saharan Africa by the regulators themselves, World Bank staff, other i...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/04/19585715/framework-evaluating-effectiveness-telecommunications-regulators-sub-saharan-africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19057 |
| Summary: | This report develops an assessment
framework and decision-making tool that, it is hoped, will
facilitate evaluations of the effectiveness of
telecommunications regulators in sub-Saharan Africa by the
regulators themselves, World Bank staff, other institutions
and their consultants. The assessment framework has been
developed as part of a larger study in which the framework
was developed and then applied in three sub-Saharan African
countries, Mauritania, Uganda and South Africa. The
individual country assessments are attached to this report
as appendices. In the context of this framework, the
adoption of a broad and dynamic definition of effectiveness
or regulatory efficiency encompasses both the legal and
regulatory framework design and the extent to which it has
affected the regulator's influence on the sector, as
well as the implementation of the framework, regulatory
practice, the regulatory decisions taken and their outcomes.
The structure of the report is as follows. Section 2 sets
out the rationale for using the analytical framework.
Section 3 explains the framework's logic and the
assessment's role in it. A step-by-step instruction
guide to conducting assessments can be found in Section 4.
Background material for conducting assessments is laid out
in the following three sections: section 5 contains the
normative reference point of the assessment; section 6
covers the background data required together with the
detailed questionnaire to be used by the evaluator; section
7, provides a menu of options for corrective action which
can be used, following assessments, to choose possible
solutions to the impediments identified. Finally, Section 8
offers an illustration of how the framework might be used,
by examining the issue of licensing in the three sub-Saharan
African countries assessed. |
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