Our Approach

At ACBF, our mission to drive sustainable development across Africa is rooted in clear, strategic, and forward-thinking principles. These guiding values shape our approach, ensuring that every initiative contributes to meaningful and lasting change as follows:

1. Public Sector as a Key Driver

Governments are at the heart of Africa’s socio-economic transformation. ACBF works in close collaboration with public institutions, ensuring that policies, capacity-building initiatives, and leadership development programs align with national priorities and global development agendas. By strengthening governance structures, public service delivery, and policy implementation, we help build resilient institutions that drive inclusive growth.

2. From Capacity Assessments to Implementation

Capacity-building goes beyond identifying gaps - it requires actionable solutions. ACBF is committed to bridging the gap between assessments and execution by providing targeted interventions, hands-on training, and strategic advisory services that transform knowledge into impact. Our approach ensures that governments, businesses, and civil society organizations can effectively implement capacity-strengthening strategies that yield measurable results.

3. The Ecosystem Approach: Strengthening Networks for Greater Impact

Capacity development does not happen in isolation - it thrives in a connected ecosystem of institutions, stakeholders, and knowledge networks. ACBF fosters regional collaboration, public-private partnerships, and cross-sector engagement to create robust capacity-building ecosystems that support entire institutions and communities. 

4. Focused Priorities: Maximizing High-Impact Areas

ACBF’s strategic focus is deliberate, and results driven. Rather than dispersing efforts across multiple areas, we prioritize initiatives with the greatest potential for transformation. By concentrating on key areas such as climate resilience, agribusiness development, trade facilitation, and economic governance, ACBF ensures that resources are effectively deployed where they are needed most, delivering tangible and scalable results.

5. Programs & Knowledge Services

ACBF acts as a hub for knowledge on capacity development through research, training, and networking. It provides access to an extensive database of experts and produces reports, policy papers, and evaluations.

Our Core Business Model

ACBF implements a framework for institutional support, skills development, knowledge services, and funds management through four key components:
 

Implementation & Monitoring Partnerships: ACBF collaborates with governments, private sector players, academia, and development partners.

Funding Model: The plan is financed through member contributions, grants, training fees, and service-based revenue.

Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E): A results framework tracks progress, ensuring measurable impact.