The African Management Development Institutes’ Network (AMDIN) has elected new leadership to steer the organisation forward.

AMDIN held its elective general assembly in Mombasa, Kenya, and was hosted by the Kenya School of Government.

The new leadership is expected to build state capacity and enhance partnerships and collaboration among schools of government and administration on the African continent.

AMDIN is over a decade old and is an association of schools of government on the African continent. The organisation runs a successful academic journal, The Africa Journal of Public Sector Development and Governance, which is printed in three languages: English, French and Portuguese. It convenes joint training programmes and academic exchanges.

The newly elected Members of the Executive Committee of AMDIN are Directors-General of their respective schools of government or public administration and are the following:

President: Guillaume Wakimesa Banga, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

Secretary-General:
Busani Ngcaweni, South Africa (RSA)

Vice President North Africa: Nada Biaz (Morocco)

Vice President Central Africa: Gladys Njoukiang (Cameroon)

Vice President West Africa: Kwaku Bonsu (Ghana)

Vice President East Africa: James Nkata (Uganda)

Vice President Southern Africa: Royson Mukwena (Zambia)

The General Assembly designated South Africa’s National School of Government as the permanent secretariat of ADMIN.

Secretary-General Ngcaweni said through AMDIN, a new cadre of African civil servant can be developed and shaped ‘steeped in ideals of Pan-African and continental integration especially in the areas of trade, trans-national infrastructure development, poverty alleviation and effective governance’.

‘That will be our agenda during this two-year tenure, to shape ideas that advances Agenda 2063,’ Ngcaweni said.

AMDIN is in the process of finalising a programme called Governance in Africa (AfGOV), a postgraduate diploma that will be co-delivered with the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) for publ
ic servants in the continent.

The National School of Government, working with other training institutes in the continent, will offer a curriculum on the African Charter on Values and Principles of Public Service in Africa as an online programme.

Source: South African Government News Agency