The European Union (EU) has granted one billion Euros to standardise
goods and services from Nigeria and other West African nations for their
competitiveness in Europe and the Americas.
The EU Project Manager for the West Africa Quality Systems Programme
(WAQSP), Frank Okafor, during the last lap of the meeting of the
steering committee of the project to assess the preparedness of
countries for the certification initiative yesterday in Abuja, noted
that the support was to promote and unify trade between ECOWAS and world
markets.
The contribution, he added, had been on for 17 years, including EU’s coordinated efforts with development partners.
However, the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation
(UNIDO) is supervising the project. It has the mandate to promote and
accelerate the inclusive and sustainable industrial development of
developing countries and economies in transition.
In his address, UNIDO Director-General, Li Yong, represented by the
Project Officer in charge of the WAQSP, Bernard Bau, said the
intervention was to ensure the implementation of the ECOWAS
Quality-ECOQUAL adopted in 2013 to strengthen a regional quality system
that complements existing national quality infrastructure and allows
companies to increase their competitiveness and ensures conformity with
international standards at a reasonable cost.
Giving the progress report thus far, Yong noted: “We have taken it
from a very short perspective. But I think what counts here is the
overall result. From last year, we have made big progress. We have held
very critical regional training and workshops on different important
topics such as consumer protection and public procurement guidelines to
integrate quality requirements. We are also working on curricula for
universities.”
The UNIDO chief added: “Now, we are accrediting 19 conformity
assessment bodies in the region. Four of which are certification
entities. We have also developed a quality certification mandate for
ECOWAS. Some countries so far have also adopted their national quality
policies.
He listed countries that had gotten certification to include all the
Francophone and Anglophone nations, except Nigeria and one other.
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