Entrenching the Culture of Quality Management in Africa through Educational Systems and Academic Programmes in African Universities.

With globalisation, Quality management in goods and services sectors has gained increasing importance over the last few decades and as an industry has spawned new career opportunities for business and technical professionals.

The key focus of the Master of Quality Management degree is to entrench a culture of quality in production and service systems to ensure delivery of quality products to the globalised trade systems. …Read More

ARSO News and Events for the First Quarter of 2010

The proposed ARSO Strategic Plan 2009-2014 lays out broad goals for ARSO including: Promotion of sound regulatory frameworks in Africa through promotion of the usage of ISO and ARSO standards in formulation of Technical Regulations; Promotion of widest and consistent application of scientific principles and…Read More

SON Council Members Meet ARSO Secretary General at the ARSO Central Secretariat on 19th August 2010.

Three SON Council Members Dr. Ifeanyi Okoye, Dr (Eng) Patrick Megwa and Mrs. Olubunmi Siyanbola visited ARSO Central Secretariat on 19th August 2010 to discuss the ARSO activities and the participation of SON/ (Nigeria) in the ARSO programmes….Read More

African Ecolabelling Mechanism Project

Research indicates that Africa can benefit from the development of an African ecolabelling scheme as it would be instrumental in expanding Africa’s market access. Evidence is strong that eco-labels have a role to play in expanding Africa’s market access. …Read More

ARSO News and Events for the First Quarter of 2010

The proposed ARSO Strategic Plan 2009-2014 lays out broad goals for ARSO including: Promotion of sound regulatory frameworks in Africa through promotion of the usage of ISO and ARSO standards in formulation of Technical Regulations; Promotion of widest a…Read More

Market Surveillance : updates From Regional Groupings and the Advisory Goup on Market Surveillance (“MARS” GROUP)

At its eighteenth session, the Working Party on Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies adopted the terms of reference of the market surveillance model initiative as described in ECE/TRADE/C/WP.6/2008/13 and requested the secretariat to report…Read More