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ACBF to focus on capacity for African regional integration

Lusaka
Zambia
07 Mar, 2014
Prof. Emmanuel Nnadozie delivering his speech at the official opening of the SSG workshop in Lusaka, Zambia. ZIPAR Executive Director Dr. Pamela Nakamba-Kabaso and Economic Association of Zambia president Mr. Isaac Ngoma listening to ACBF Executive Secretary Prof. Emmanuel Nnadodzie’s speechThe African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) Executive Secretary Professor Emmanuel Nnadozie says the organisation has achieved its mission of building human, institutional and organizational capacity in a sustainable manner adding that the ZIPAR Executive Director, Dr. Pamela Nakamba-Kabaso who benefited from ACBF support was a shining example of the capacity building programme.
 
Speaking during the opening of the ACBF Strategic Studies Group (SSG) inaugural workshop at Hotel Intercontinental in Lusaka on 7th March 2014, Prof. Nnadozie said that his vision was to bring capacity building back to the centre of development programmes in the foundation. He added that the establishment of think-tanks and the building of capacity of middle level management had contributed to the significant economic growth in many member countries.
 
Prof. Nnadozie remarked that before ACBF, many African countries such as Ethiopia had few Economists at PhD level but now they were many and helping to drive development.
 
From a human capacity dimension, ACBF has gone beyond. If anyone is in doubt that ACBF can build capacity, they should come and see this woman (Dr. Pamela Nakamba-Kabaso), she benefited from ACBF support and she is a very capable person”, he stated.
 
Earlier, the ZIPAR Executive Director in her welcome remarks to the SSG delegates mentioned that she benefited from an ACBF scholarship through the Ministry of Finance to pursue a Masters in Economics, an initiative which she said changed the picture of economic and social development in Zambia.
 
The ACBF Executive Secretary also stressed the importance of the SSG workshop which he said brought together a global pool of technical and professional experts that will guide and advise the Foundation on specific research areas of critical importance to Africa. This will enable ACBF proactively identify and address pressing development issues confronting the continent.
 
After almost 10 years of existence, the ACBF subjected its Knowledge Management (KM) function to an independent evaluation whose report in October 2011 revealed that amongst other issues there was an apparent disconnect between the key ACBF Technical Advisory Panels and Networks (TAPNETs) and the Foundation’s Operations. Also, the activities of the network were found to be not in sync with the strategic objectives of the Foundation’s Third Strategic Medium Term Plan (SMTP III) thus the evaluation report recommended the redesign of the TAPNETs into a more dynamic network to be known as the Strategic Studies Group.
 
The Foundation, adopted the evaluation recommendation and communicated its decision to redesign the TAPNETs into the SSG to network members at the last 8th Annual TAPNET Meeting, held in Yaoundé, Cameroon, in November 2011.

Read More on The ZIPAR Quarterly Issue 1, April 2014

Thomas Kwesi Quartey

ACBF has been granted the status of a specialized agency because of the potential to transform Africa through capacity development.


H.E. Thomas Kwesi Quartey, Deputy Chairperson, AU Commission
Erastus Mwencha

The recognition of ACBF as the African Union’s Specialized Agency for Capacity Development launches the beginning of a new era for capacity building by ACBF, which will require an appropriate level of political commitment and financial support from all stakeholders.


H.E. Erastus Mwencha, Chair, ACBF Executive Board
Lamin Momodou

The remarkable achievements ACBF has registered over the past 26 years is not by accident in our opinion. They have come through hard work, dedication, commitment, purposeful leadership, support from the member countries as well as productive partnership building.


Mr. Lamin Momodou MANNEH, Director, UNDP Regional Service Centre for Africa
Goodall Gondwe

Africa needs ACBF as much, probably more now, than at the time it was created in 1991.


Hon. Goodall Gondwe, former Chair of the ACBF Board of Governors and Minister of Finance – Malawi
Ken Ofori Atta

Ghana’s partnership with ACBF is a tremendous blessing for us and therefore the opportunity for Ghana to host the 26th ACBF Board of Governors Meeting is something that we treasure.


Hon Ken Ofori Atta, Chair of the ACBF Board of Governors and Minister of Finance - Ghana
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