Sustained postal development

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Sustained postal development

• Encarnación Vivanco
• Ministerio de Fomento
• Dubai, 15 november 2006

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Bucharest Congress Mandate

• Bucharest World Postal Strategy (BWPS)
• Obj 4. Reform the postal sector to ensure
• sustainable development of postal services.

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Reform and Long-term viability of postal services

• Integrated development plan (PIDEP) cooperation
  instrument for DCs,
• Political Commitment at national level,
• UPS, a key IPDP component
• Cooperation and Development regional framework

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Posts Contribution to development

• 500.000 millions items per year
• 600.000 Offices worldwide
• 5,3 million employees worldside
• Distribution and Transport network,
• Postal Products high quality,
• Banking and financial products and money
  transfers,
• E-Products (Internet)

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Cooperation new outlook

• Incorporation overall regional strategic plan.
• In line with BWPS objectives
• Study specific features of beneficiary country
• Integrated postal sector focus
• Sector essential to region and to each country
• Based on postal economic models
• Government support social welfare
• PIDEP, key aspect of cooperation

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Regionalization of development

• Jointly with Restricted Unions and Governments,
• Integrated postal reform and development plans
  (IPDPs)
• Integrated study of national postal sector
• Uniform Metodology allowing regionalization
• Co-financiado by Government of beneficiary
  country
• Follow-up and monitoring of results
• Planes Regionales Desarrollo (PDRs)
• Survey of region
• Regional Strategic Plan
• Follow-up and monitoring of results

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New content

• Strategy based on regionalization
• Postal law sector reform and development
• Network infrastructure a fundamental asset
• Social and government commitment
• Criteria for investment / external funding
• Funding IC -gt DC but also DC -gt DC
• Transfer of technology (adapted to country)
• Increased efficiency and improved results

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Posts and MDGs
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Strategic appeal

• Support for UN Millennium Goals
• Rising the socio-political profile of Technical
  cooperation,
• Launching RDPs and IPDPs in developing
  countries
• Carrying out reform, in line with BWPS,
• Increasing priority level assigned to technical
  Cooperation in forthcoming Nairobi Strategy

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Spains role in cooperation

• UPU
• -DCAG Chair
• -Financing of Regional Adviser for Arab countries
• PUASP
• -Adviser (Vice-Secretary General)
• -Three IPDP experts, trained in 2006
• -Donation of Cooperation Funds and Contract of
  Designated Operator / PUASP
• -Cooperation and Reform Working Groups
• -Regulations and Technical Cooperation Manual
• Taking cooperation to highest political level
• (Latin America Summit)

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Many thanks for your attention!
Encarnación Vivanco Deputy Minister, Ministry of
Fomento Spain