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UNPAN Africa

06 May 2013

CAFRAD Conference on "Enhancing the Capacity of Leaders of African Parliaments"

CAFRAD is organizing a Conference on “Enhancing the Capacity of Leaders of African Parliaments for more Astute Legislation” to assess the performance challenges of the legislature and to empower the parliamentarians for a higher competence in the discharge of their legislative duties for the development of Africa. The Conference will be held in Rabat (Morocco) from 20 to 22 May 2013.

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14 March 2013

CAFRAD High Strategic Policy Conference, 25-27 March 2013, Burkina Faso

CAFRAD is organizing a High Level Strategic Policy Conference on “Toward New Strategic Approaches for Prevention and Resolution of Conflicts in African Countries: How Can African Countries Strategically Address the Current Security Threats Challenging the Development of the Continent”. It will be held in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) from 25 to 27 March 2013.

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19 February 2013

7th Annual e-Gov Africa Forum, 25-27 March, Uganda

Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) is hosting the 7th Annual e-Gov Africa 2013 Forum from 25th to 27th March 2013 at the Speke Resort & Conference Centre, Uganda with the following key topics:

Governing E-Governance: Structuring and Funding E-Government Programmes
E-Governance at Work: Theory vs. Appropriate Practice
Enabling Technologies and Underpinning Infrastructure
Designing a Citizen-entric E-gov Portal: Balancing the needs of centralisation and de-centralisation
Online and Mobile Financial Transactions: Developing a secure regime for digital signatures

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03 October 2012

Problematic of Audit, Control and Evaluation of State Institutions, Social and Economic Policies in Africa

CAFRAD and Hanns Seidel Foundation are organizing a Pan African High Level Forum on Problematic of audit, control and evaluation of state institutions, social and economic policies in Africa. It will be held in Rabat (Morocco) from 29 to 31 October 2012

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16 August 2012

2012 CPSI Public Sector Innovation Conference

CPSI is organizing its 6th Public Sector Innovation Conference from 22-23 August 2012 in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. The conference is guaranteed to expose the public sector and its strategic partners to innovation opportunities and strategies, through sharing of knowledge and experiences.

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03 August 2012

New Dialogue About Security in Africa

The New Security Foundation, in partnership with the Government of Kenya, has launched a new initiative to involve business in a major dialogue about modern security and its implications for commerce, industry and investment in Africa. 'Usalama ni Harambee', the Africa Forum on Business and Security, will take place from 13-14 September, 2012, at the LAICO Regency Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya.

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07 June 2012

8th Pan-African Forum on the Modernization of Public Service and State Institutions

The African Training and Research Centre in Administration for Development (CAFRAD) is organizing the 8th Pan-African Forum on the Modernization of Public Service and State Institutions in Saïdia, Morocco from 25-26 June 2012. The main objective of the forum is to examine the strategies and policies to be set up in African countries in order to transform, innovate and modernize the whole public administration, governance and the state, so that countries can accelerate their development.

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06 June 2012

50th Meeting of the Governing Board of CAFRAD

Ministers of public service representing all member states of CAFRAD, as well representatives of regional and international organizations will meet to discuss the strategic plan for the centre and its financial capability. The meeting will be chaired by the Minister of Civil Service and Administrative Reforms of the Kingdom of Morocco and will be held in Saïdia, Morocco on 27 June 2012.

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Events

5th Annual Leadership Development For Women In Government And State Owned Enterprises
Jul 24, 2013 to Jul 26, 2013
Gold Reef City, Johannesburg
IIntelligence Transfer Centre

7th African Education Week
Jun 19, 2013 to Jun 22, 2013
Johannesburg, South Africa
African Education

Africa Education Week - 7th Annual Convention and Learning Expo
Jun 19, 2013 to Jun 22, 2013
Sandton convention Centre
African Education

Documents

Welcome Speech by the South African Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development, Mr Jeff Radebe Commonwealth Law Conference
The theme of conference: common challenges - common solutions: commonwealth, commerce and Ubuntu, all these issues expressed in this theme, are resonant with the Singapore Declaration of Common Principles which the sovereign governments committed to in 1971. These principles are, among others, human rights, socio-economic justice, good governance, rule of law, egalitarianism and peace.
23 May 2013

Remarks by Mr Malusi Gigaba, Minister of Public Enterprises, during the Frank Dialogue on Black Economic Empowerment
South Africa has recently adopted the National Development Plan (NDP) whose theme, "Our Future - Make it Work", aptly captures the principal focus of this plan and what must pre-occupy the minds all South Africans.
23 May 2013

News

South Africa: Primary Health Care (PHC) Re-Engineering Provincial Task Team Established to Provide Leadership and Review Progress
Functional coordinating structures of Primary Health Care (PHC) re-engineering are in place at Districts and Sub-Districts. The North West PHC re-engineering costed plan has been developed to implement the three streams, i.e. School Health services, Specialist team, and Ward based outreach teams. Training has been standardised by National and phase one which is orientation and basic foundation, is provided by a contracted service provider and funded through conditional grants. Speaking during his budget speech, MEC Magome Masike said that PHC Re-engineering communication strategy is already in place. “We have started marketing the programme through community dialogues where 18 sub-districts participated. We will further strengthen social mobilisation through community dialogues, ward and cluster meetings, the media and other marketing initiatives” said MEC Masike.
24 May 2013

South Africa: The National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) Offers Free Grants
The National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) will in the near future start dishing out free money to youth entrepreneurs. Briefing the media in Johannesburg yesterday, NYDA chairman Yershen Pillay said grant finance will range between R1000 and R100000. "The NYDA will no longer be offering loan finance to young entrepreneurs. "Instead there will be grant finance in the form of micro-finance grants for survivalist youth entrepreneurship and cooperative grants for greater participation of youth in the cooperative sector.
24 May 2013

Resources

News & Information on the eLearning Africa Conference, an Annual Event for Developing eLearning Capacities in Africa
15 February 2011

Thematic Websites

The Africa Governance Inventory (AGI) An online gateway to governance-related information in Africa.

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