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The 1st AMDIN Biennial Conference and General Meeting - What role for Management Development Institutes in Africa?

31 August 2007

Dr Mamadou Dia (Head of Division Department of Political Affairs African Union Commission)

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Chairperson of the African Management Development Institutes Network (AMDIN)
Members of the Executive Council of AMDIN
Heads of Management Development Institutes
Representatives from NEPAD, UNDP and other organisations present
Colleagues and friends

It is indeed a pleasure and privilege to be with you today. On behalf Mrs Julia D. Joiner, Commissioner for Political Affairs, allow me to begin by thanking the organisers and host for arranging this most important and significant gathering of African Management Development Institutes. Building on the deliberations of the first day, one cannot but appreciate the reality that these engagements on the value and role of African Management Development Institutes is central to any dialogue on the state capability development and service delivery on the socio-economic mandates established across our vast continent.

All too often, our dialogue on capacity development takes place outside of recognising and appreciating that the dialogue on capacity development without the active and central participation of MDI, is nothing but wishful thinking. MDI’s are central to any hope we have of using capability developments strategies to transform the instruments of the state into effective, efficient, innovative and responsive agents for economic and social transformation. This gathering of African MDI’s and the success of AMDIN thus has a significance that goes well beyond the confines of our deliberations.

The African Union Commission (AUC) is indeed very pleased to be part of this process and historic first conference of the established network of African Management Development Institutes. Our mandate in this terrain is rooted in the leadership provided by the Pan-African Ministers of Public Service, under the overall guidance of the current Chairperson, Her Excellency, Minister Geraldine-Fraser Moleketi. Through the 4^th and 5^th Pan-African Conference of Ministers, the Ministers of Public/Civil Service restated their commitment to enhancing the role of MDI’s through direct support and engagement with AMDIN.

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