PROGRESS REPORT FEB – APRIL 2005

A  Summary – Brief

The company organized the first project implementation team meeting in Pretoria on the 22^nd March 2005.

A summary of activities is given below:

B          Meetings

1.         A meeting was held in February with the Director General (Wrenelle Stander) of the Department of Transport of South Africa to secure a venue for the first project implementation meeting.

Subsequently South Africa agreed to host this meeting on the 22^nd  - 23^rd March 2005.   2005.

2.a)      The meeting was successfully held and concluded on the said dates and was attended by the following personnel including the Directors of our company.

Cameroon       - Samuel Mandeng (Technical Advisor Cameroon Civil Aviation

                         Authority [CAA])

Libya               - Ahmed Erhuma (Libyan People’s Bureau South Africa for Libyan CAA)

Namibia          - Bethuel Mujetenga (Director of Civil Aviation – Namibia)

Nigeria             - Eng. Fidelis C Onyeyiri (Director General/Chief Executive Nigeria

                         CAA)

Nigeria             - Mahmoud S. Ben Tukur (Technical Advisor to the Director General

                         Nigeria CAA)

South Africa    - Levers Mabaso (Deputy Director – Multilateral Affairs Department of

                          Transport

Apologies:

Ethiopia           - Tefera Makonnen (Acting Director General Ethiopia CAA)

b)              Six states agreed to form the project implementation team for the establishment program for the AFRO-CAA.

They agreed on the following during the meeting:

-          An adoption of the Agenda for all future meetings

-          Procedures to be adopted for the implementation of the AFRO-CAA

-          Continental and International organizations with whom cooperation would be sort.

-          Cooperation would continue with existing civil aviation initiatives in Africa

-          Identification of funding sources

-          A Communication plan and time frame for the project

-          A program of deliverables for the project.

-          The States signed the official minutes of the meeting

c)              A ninety day time limited was set for the adoption of the AFRO-CAA memorandum of understanding (MOU).

Our company was tasked with collecting/coordinating data presented by each State on the MOUs and to visit each region within this ninety day period.

C         Programme Follow-up/ Marketing

1.         The company finalized the draft memorandum of understanding for the AFRO-CAA and delivered an electronical copy to each of the above states.

D         SADC, EAC, IATA, ECA, AFRAA

The IATA Regional Director Africa- Safety, Operations & Infrastructure Mr. Daniel Galibert was briefed on the AFRO-CAA through his Administration Officer Januarieu D’Sa.

E          MOUs Development

            Status remains as per last Quarterly Report.

F          AFCAC/NEPAD/ICAO

            Status remains as per last Quarterly Report with the exception of the meeting with NEPAD above.

G         Legal

Nil

H         Funding

The World Bank invited our company to attend discussions on Maximizing Civil Aviation Economic Contribution.  We have accepted this invitation for 06^th to 08^th June 2005 to press the case for the AFRO-CAA funding. 

I           Any other Business

The next project implementation team meeting to finalize the MOUs is to be held in Tripoli-Libya on 22^nd July 2005.