SAFIR aims to provide high quality capacity building & training on Infrastructure regulation, & related topics, in South Asia.
Specific objectives of SAFIR are:
Provide a platform for experience sharing amongst the regulators of the region.
Facilitating effective & efficient regulation of utility & Infrastructure industries.
Initiate beneficial exchange of knowledge & expertise.
Evolve best practices.
Build regulatory decision-making and response capacity in South Asia.
Conduct training programmes to serve regulatory agencies and other stakeholders
Spur research on regulatory issues.
Interact, coordinate, facilitate & engage with various international developments; regulation, financial bodies & government or private entities of various countries,
In addition , ancillary / incidental objectives includes.
Providing a database of information relating to regulatory reform process and experiences.
Make, amend, rescind or add the rules and regulations for the conduct of affairs of the Association.
Promote, support, affiliate, amalgamate or merge with any other body or institution having partially or wholly similar aim or objectives.
Prepare and print public papers, periodicals, monographs and books, in furtherance of the objectives of SAFIR.