This is intended to be the final meeting, however during the meeting a consensus emerged on the need to pursue the WSP experience in Eritrea on a self-sustaining basis. A proposal is put forward for a WSP successor body in the form of an Eritrean Centre for Development Studies, and a transition phase is initiated. This involves creating a team to work for three months with a view to reporting back to the Project Group on the modalities of setting up the Centre. At the fourth and final Project Group Meeting, the team tasked with looking into the creation of a Centre to continue WSP activities on a self-sustaining basis submits its report. The report, which details possible statutes, workplans, and composition of a governing board, is endorsed by all participants.
Work begins the next month on setting up the new body.
The Eritrean Government decides to suspend the launching of the Centre indefinitely, leading WSP to terminate the transition and officially close WSP Eritrea on 31 October 1997.