Program Manager Mr. M. Matus
OVERVIEW OF PROGRESS IN 2014
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In 2014, the WIPO Academy initiated the implementation of a reform process and its repositioning as the core entity in WIPO for IP training and capacity building activities for government officials and other stakeholders. During the reform, the Academy endeavored to maintain, to the extent possible, the quantity, quality and frequency of the training programs regularly provided in order to meet the ongoing training obligations with partners; to respond to new and urgent training requests of Member States and other stakeholders; and to preserve the continuum of the training provided.
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To this end, in 2014, the Academy continued to organize through a combination of a diversified range of training and teaching activities to meet the capacity building requirements of developing countries, LDCs and countries in transition: (i) face-to-face training activities for government officials from industrial property and copyright Offices and other public sector institutions that are directly or indirectly involved in the management of, and international negotiations, related to IP (Professional Development Program); (ii) a portfolio of 17 distance learning (DL) courses in 14 languages (Distance Learning Program); and (iii) a number of joint master programs on IP law and other activities for the promotion of higher education on IP (Academic Institutions Program), as well as specific activities for students and young IP professionals (Summer Schools Program). A major achievement in 2014 was the roll-out of the WIPO e-Learning Center (WeLC) platform, developed by the DL Program in 2011, to the other Academy Programs in order to facilitate the registration, selection and enrollment processes of candidates.
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With regard to the Professional Development Program (PDP), in 2014, the Academy organized 20 training courses in partnership with the industrial property and/or copyright authorities of Algeria, Austria, Canada, Costa Rica, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Mexico, Morocco, Norway, Paraguay, Peru, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, as well as the WTO and the Centre d’Études Internationales de la Propriété Intellectuelle (CEIPI), in Strasbourg, France. A total of 216 participants from developing countries, LDCs and countries in transition benefited from these activities, which represents a 14 per cent decrease compared to 2013. The decrease was primarily due to the “WIPO-Sweden Advanced Training Course on Industrial Property in the Global Economy”, traditionally offered annually to 25 officials, not taking place in 2014. The course program continued to include the following main topics: patents, trademarks, copyright and related rights, collective management of copyright and related rights, management of IP offices, IP for policy makers, and was expanded to include two new courses on branding and transfer of technology and licensing. Moreover, as part of the reform process, the training model was placed under review for further development and improvement in 2014.
Geographical Distribution of Participants in Professional Development Program, 2012-2014
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The Distance Learning Program (DL) continued to attract participants from all over the world including special target groups of IP Office staff, TISCs and Start-Up Academies. The development of a tailor- made course with the Croatian IP Office was successfully completed and launched in 2014. In addition, two new customizations were initiated with the IP Offices of Cambodia and Viet Nam, increasing the number of languages of the general courses from 12 in 2013 to 14 (Arabic, Cambodian, Chinese, Croatian, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese) in 2014. In 2014, some 34,935 persons (30,552 under its general courses and 4,383 under its advanced courses) from more than 192 countries benefited from the enhanced e-learning Centre (WeLC) platform. Two new DL pilot courses were launched in 2014: (i) Intellectual Property, Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Cultural Expressions (DL-203) and (ii) Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights (DL-501). Development of the DL course on IP and Public Health started in 2014, and will be launched as a pilot course in 2015. A more systematic approach to the annual course review process was implemented in 2014, and the DL course content underwent an extensive review (Phase I), the results of which will be implemented in 2015 (Phase II).
Geographical Distribution of Participants in all of Distance Learning Program, 2012-201435
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The Academic Institutions Program (AIP) continued to offer joint IP Law Master’s Degree courses for the benefit of nationals of developing countries and countries in transition, in cooperation with a number of universities and the financial assistance of the Government of Japan and the Government of the Republic of Korea as related to four programs. In 2014, a total of 196 persons were trained, 92 students from 58 countries received scholarships to attend one of the seven joint IP Law Master programs offered by the WIPO Academy jointly with: the Africa University (AU) and the African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO) (Zimbabwe); the Austral University and the National Industrial Property Institute of Argentina (INPI) (Argentina); the Haifa University (Israel); the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) (Australia); Seoul National University (SNU) and the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) (Republic of Korea); the University of Turin (Italy) and the International Training Center of the International Labor Organization (ITC-ILO); and the University of Yaoundé II and the Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle (OAPI) (Cameroon). The Colloquium for Teachers of IP was organized in cooperation with the WTO for the benefit of 247 persons. The Colloquium continued to offer a forum for dialogue and debate on recent developments in key IP areas and teaching and pedagogic issues. In addition, 5 persons received WIPO fellowships to participate in the Annual Congress of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP). With assistance from WIPO, two universities in Indonesia (Universitas Padjadjaran and University of Indonesia) started to offer new teaching programs on IP. Four other programs in Bangladesh, China, Jamaica and Venezuela were in the process of being established. In 2014, new partnership requests were received by the Academy and were examined in line with the new policy established in this respect.
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The Academy organized nine sessions of the WIPO Summer School (WSS) Program in three languages (English, Russian and Spanish) in cooperation with nine national institutions in Chile, Croatia, Jamaica, Mexico, Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation, Singapore, South Africa and Switzerland. In 2014, some 352 participants participated in the WSS, with the majority of participants coming from Latin America and the Caribbean (124 participants or 35 per cent), followed by participants in transition countries (85 participants or 24 per cent), whilst participants from Asia and the Pacific, Africa, the Arab region and other countries accounted for 72 (or 21 per cent), 39 (or 11 per cent), five (or one per cent) and 27 (or eight per cent) of participants respectively. Summer school sessions continued to be developed in rotation taking into consideration geographical balance.
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The design, planning and implementation of activities by Program 11 continued to be guided by the relevant DA Recommendations in 2014. The Academy programs were development-oriented and responsive to stakeholder demands (Recommendation 1) and sought to introduce IP at different academic levels with a view to generating greater public awareness on IP (Recommendation 3). Prioritization of the DA principles is paramount to the design of the Academy’s reform process.
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In 2014, the start-up academies’ project was mainstreamed into the Academy’s regular budget. The project focused on continuing cooperation with countries that had implementation delayed during the pilot phase for political reasons (Egypt and Tunisia) and in identifying new beneficiary countries. Cooperation strategies were prepared for Cambodia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Turkey and Bangladesh, taking into consideration recently established national IP strategies whenever available. Two new agreements were signed with the Governments of Cambodia and Ecuador for the establishment of start-up academies Cooperation was formally initiated with Ecuador in September, 2014. An external independent evaluation report of the pilot phase was presented and approved at the fourteenth session of the CDIP.
PERFORMANCE DATA
Expected Result: III.2 Enhanced human resource capacities able to deal with the broad range of requirements for the effective use of IP for development in developing countries, LDCs and countries with economies in transition
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Performance Indicators
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Baselines
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Targets
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Performance Data
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Revised Portfolio of training courses on IP for developing countries, LDCs and CETs / Relevance of content of training courses to capacity building requirements of developing countries, LDCs and CETs
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Portfolio not revised on a global basis since establishment of Academy
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Revised Portfolio available by end of biennium
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Consultations with the Bureaus and preparation of the training needs assessment questionnaire for the revision of the training portfolio were underway in 2014.
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On track
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Enhanced and multilingual access to e-learning on various IP aspects for developing countries, LDC and CETs / Relevance of content of portfolio of e-learning courses to the capacity building requirements of developing countries, LDCs and CETs
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Updated Baseline end 2013:
In 2013:
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5 DL courses were available in all 6 UN languages plus Portuguese;
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2 DL courses were available in 5 UN languages plus Portuguese ;
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1 course was available in 4 UN languages plus Portuguese; and
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4 DL courses available in only English.
70% of participants in the advanced courses indicated their professional and/or academic performance improved as a result of participation in the DL course.
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All courses available in all UN languages
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In 2014:
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9 DL courses were available in all 6 UN languages plus Portuguese;
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1 DL course was available in 5 UN languages plus Portuguese ;
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1 course was available in 3 UN languages; and
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1 DL course available in only English (DL 401 is expected to be replaced by DL 501-Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights in 2015).36
78% of participants in the advanced courses indicated their professional and/or academic performance improved as a result of participation in the DL course.
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On track
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Performance Indicators
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Baselines
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Targets
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Performance Data
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TLS
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Original Baseline P&B 2014/15: Not all courses available in all languages; revision of course content currently done by Academy staff only and on ad hoc basis
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Improved access to higher education on IP on the part of developing countries, LDCs and CETs / Number of universities in developing countries, LDCs and CETs, offering new teaching programs on IP
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IP teaching at university level is currently available only on a limited number of developing countries, LDCs and CETs; WIPO offers Joint Master Program on IP with seven universities of which two in Africa and one in Latin America
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Five universities in developing countries, LDCs and CETs will be offering new teaching programs on IP by the end of the biennium
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With assistance from WIPO, two universities in Indonesia (Universitas Padjadjaran and University of Indonesia) started to offer new teaching programs on IP. Four universities were in the process of establishing new teaching programs on IP at the end of 2014:
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Bangladesh Institute of Management;
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University of West Indies in Jamaica;
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Renmin University in China; and
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Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas, Venezuela.
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On track
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Progressive establishment of a network of IP experts in developing countries, LDCs and CETs
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Updated Baseline end 2013: 326 academics from developing countries, LDCs and CETs members of ATRIP
Original Baseline P&B 2014/15: No. of academics from developing countries, LDCs and CETs members of ATRIP
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An increase of 15% over the baseline
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362 academics from developing countries, LDCs and CETs members, as reported by ATRIP (+11%)
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On track
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No. of new start-up academies projects initiated after the conclusion of the Pilot Phase
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Updated Baseline end 2013: Phase II of the pilot phase of the project was not completed at the end of 2013.
Original Baseline P&B 2014/15: 0
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Phase II of the pilot phase of the project was completed and evaluated in 2014.
Two new agreements were signed with the Governments of Cambodia and Ecuador for the establishment of start-up academies. Cooperation with Ecuador was formally initiated in September 2014.
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On track
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RESOURCE UTILIZATION
Budget and Actual Expenditure (by result)
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Budget and Actual Expenditure (personnel and non-personnel)
(in thousands of Swiss francs)
NOTE: The 2014/15 Budget after Transfers reflects transfers as of March 31, 2015 to address needs during the 2014/15 biennium in line with Financial Regulation 5.5.
A. Budget after Transfers 2014/15
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The decrease in personnel resources in the 2014/15 Budget after Transfers is primarily due to the redeployment of personnel resources from the Program to meet the needs related to WIPO platforms and IT applications across the Development Sector. This was compensated by the redeployment of personnel resources into the Program following the transition in the management of the Academy towards the end of 2014. This resulted in a net increase of one post in the Academy compared to the 2014/15 Approved Budget.
B. Budget utilization 2014
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Budget utilization is within the expected range of 40-60 per cent for the first year of the biennium and is on track.
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