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ACBF to hold 15th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors on 29
June 2006 Copenhagen, Denmark
African
Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF)
June 20,
2006
Harare
- The African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) will hold the
15th Annual Meeting of its Board of Governors in Copenhagen,
Denmark on June 29, 2006. The Government of Denmark will host the
meeting, which will be attended by more than 100 delegates comprising
African Minister of Civil Service, Finance, Planning and Economic
Affairs; bilateral donors from Africa, Europe and North America;
major multilateral agencies and partners of the Foundation, including
the African Development Bank, The United Nations Development Programme,
the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank; the Chairman
of ACBF Executive Board; ACBF Executive Secretary; and ACBF Secretariat
Staff.
The
Board of Governors is the highest policy making organ of the Foundation.
Its current membership comprises three sponsoring agencies (the
African Development Bank, the United Nations Development Programme
and the World Bank), the International Monetary Fund, 33 African
and non-African countries namely, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso,
Cameroon, Canada, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic
of Congo, Denmark, Finland, France, Gabon, Ghana, India, Ireland,
Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, The Netherlands, Niger,
Nigeria, Norway, Rwanda, Senegal, Sweden, Tanzania, Uganda, United
Kingdom, United States of America, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Countries
and organizations that are about to complete legal and administrative
formalities for membership include Djibouti, Ethiopia, the European
Union and Guinea-Conakry. The African Union is an honorary member
of the Board.
The
15th Annual Meeting will consider the Foundation’s Annual
Report and Audited Financial Statements for 2005, discuss the draft
report of the recently concluded Independent External Evaluation
of ACBF and approve the ACBF Strategic Medium-Term Plan (2007-2011),
including strategic issues relating to the mobilization of resources
for the effective implementation of the Strategic Medium Term Plan.
Also on the agenda for discussion is a concept paper on the Second
Pan African Capacity Building Forum that is planned for January
2007.
The
Strategic Medium Term Plan II (2007-2011) with a guiding theme "Towards
the Achievements of the Millennium Development Goals in Sub-Saharan
Africa" intends to take capacity building in Africa to a significant
new height. It is focused on critical needs for which the first
Strategic Medium Term Plan (SMTP I) 2002-2006 provided a valuable
foundation. ACBF under SMTP I succeeded among other achievements,
in reaching vital agencies in the core public sector and among non-
state actors to improve the policy making process, strengthen voice
and promote a culture and practice of participatory governance,
transparency and accountability in many African countries south
of the Sahara. African countries are still in dire need of effective
state capacity for economic management and public service delivery;
to take accountability and transparency in governance to a respectable
level; to promote private sector development and corporate governance;
and to expand the space for dialogue among all stakeholders in the
development process. Also required are interventions to strengthen
training, policy analysis, research and advocacy institutions; undertake
extensive institutional reforms in the public sector; raise the
level of effectiveness of regional institutions and effectively
promote the role of knowledge generation and sharing in the development
process. These will for long constitute vital areas for capacity
building to enable African to have effective control over the forks
with which sustainable growth can be delivered and poverty reduced.
These are some of the core areas of focus of SMTP 2007-2011. They
are essentially the issues at the heart of good governance in Africa.
Thus, SMTP II is a continuation of ACBF’s efforts to assist African
countries build the capacities to roll back poverty in Africa.
The
report of the independent External Evaluation of the ACBF examines
performance of the Foundation in the implementation of the Strategic
Medium Term Plan (SMTP I), 2002-2006. The evaluation focuses on
the extent to which the objectives of the SMTP I have been achieved,
and makes recommendations to improve the effectiveness of ACBF’s
capacity building interventions.
As
regards the Second Pan African Capacity Building Forum, in January
2007, ACBF will organize the Second Pan African Capacity Building
Forum. The Forum is a follow-up on the first that was held on October
22-24, 2001 in Bamako, Mali, which was a major pan African gathering.
A total of 600 participants made up of national delegates, African
and non-African resource persons, national and regional organizations
with capacity building mandates and representatives of bilateral
and multilateral organizations and agencies, participated. Among
the participants were four Heads of State, four Prime Ministers
and Heads of Government, and thirty-three Cabinet Ministers. One
of the outcomes of the Forum was the proclamation of 2002-2011 a
"Decade for Capacity Building in Africa" by the African Union at
is First Ordinary Session of the Assembly that was held in Durban,
South Africa on July 9-10, 2002.
The
Second Pan African Capacity Building Forum will be guided by two
main objectives. These are to: provide a platform for Africa's development
stakeholders to discuss Africa's development challenges and their
capacity-building dimensions; and to share information on capacity-building
results within the context of ongoing efforts to achieve the MDGs
and to improve political and economic governance in sub-Saharan
Africa. The themes and topics of the Forum will broadly reflect
the current capacity and development management concerns and agenda
facing the continent. The Forum is expected to generate renewed,
enhanced and sustained commitment to the development as well as
effective utilization and retention of capacities required for the
achievement of the MDGs in Africa and for addressing other development
challenges facing the continent in a fast globalizing world. It
will also lead to the development of synergies and mutual learning
across capacity building programs and players, shared best practices
and effective coordination of capacity building interventions in
sub-Saharan Africa.
The
Forum will consist of a two-day symposium and a one-day policymakers
summit that will be attended by Heads of State and Government as
well as Heads of multilateral and bilateral institutions. About
700 participants are expected to attend.
African
Capacity Building Foundation
ACBF
is Africa’s premier institution in Capacity Building. Established
in February 1991, ACBF was the outcome of collaboration between
African governments and the international donor community. The major
sponsoring agencies of the Foundation are the African Development
Bank (AfDB), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and
the World Bank. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) became a member
of ACBF in September 2002.
ACBF’s
mission is to build sustainable human and institutional capacity
for sustainable growth, poverty reduction and good governance on
Africa. The Foundation intervenes in six core competency areas,
namely, economic policy analysis and management, financial management
and accountability, strengthening and monitoring of national statistics,
public administration and management, strengthening of the policy
analysis capacity of national parliaments, professionalization of
the voices of the private sector and civil society.
Based
in Harare, Zimbabwe, the Foundation is present in some 40 African
countries in sub-Saharan Africa. It has committed more than US$290
million to capacity building since its inception.
M.
Jean-Christophe Deberre, the Governor representing France, chairs
the ACBF Board of Governors; Mr. Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile, Governor
of the Bank of Uganda chairs the Executive Board and Dr. Soumana
Sako is the Foundation’s Executive Secretary.
For
more information please contact:
Rutendo
Kambarami
Public
Relations Officer
The African
Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF)
Tel: +263-4-700208/790398/9
Fax: +263-4-702915,
792894
E-mail:
r.kambarami@acbf-pact.org
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