AMDIN - The 1st AMDIN Biennial Conference and General Meeting - Conference Communique: MDIs: Developing Public Sector Capacity for Africa's 21st Century Needs

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The 1st AMDIN Biennial Conference and General Meeting - Conference Communique: MDIs: Developing Public Sector Capacity for Africa's 21st Century Needs

June 2007

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The African Management Development Institutes’ Network (AMDIN) a Pan African network of management development institutions (MDIs), including schools and institutes of public administration and management met from 29 – 31 August in Midrand, South Africa. Gathered were Heads of Institutions and senior officials from 17 African countries. They met as a network for the first Biennial Conference and General Assembly, deliberating on the theme “MDIs: Developing Public Sector Capacity for Africa’s 21st Century Needs”. The conference was attended and supported by some of the most notable development partners including the African Union Commission and representatives from its programme NEPAD, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank, the Commonwealth Secretariat, development agencies from the German and Japanese governments. The Federal MDI in Brazil and the Civil Service College of Singapore were in attendance, providing an international comparative dimension to the conference.

The conference reiterated the importance of African MDIs in assisting with developing appropriate public sector capacity to ensure rapidly pushing ahead Africa’s developmental agenda. It reiterated the important principles of African ownership of the network and its programme of action; sharing of resources, including expertise and knowledge, among African MDIs; and a quest for continuous improvement and raising of performance standards in the interest of securing human development on the African continent.

In an opening address to the Conference, the Chairperson of the 5^th and 6^th Pan African Conferences of Ministers of Public/ Civil Service and Minister of Public Service and Administration in South Africa, Geraldine Fraser Moleketi stressed the importance of MDIs as strategic capacity development agencies of public services across the continent and emphasised the responsibility they therefore carry to transform the mindsets of public servants. She went on to identify AMDIN as an important vehicle to assist in developing the necessary capacity within the MDIs to fulfil their important mandate, as they themselves are for a variety of reasons experiencing phenomenal challenges.

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