AU launches African Union Leadership Academy project

The Administration and Human Resources Management Directorate (AHRMD) of the African Union Commission (AUC) on Thursday launched the African Union Leadership Academy project at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia under the theme “Driving the Africa We Want.”
Officially launching the project, the Chairperson of the Commission, Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, said the academy would be providing a systematic way of training towards the implementation of Agenda 2063.

“This project lies at the heart of the priorities and flagship projects of Agenda 2063: The Africa we want” said Dr. Dlamini Zuma.

The Chairperson emphasized the need for capacity building mechanisms such as the leadership academy, since Africa’s greatest resource is its human resources. She then went on to add that the academy will become a strategic node, and means to facilitate service delivery and result-oriented program implementation on the continent, as well as provide knowledge-based responses to any challenges.

The new project will facilitate the development of professional skills of AU staff members for effective policy design and work place efficiency that will create a high level pan-African learning and development agency, driving capacity building solutions to challenges of managing the process of realization of Agenda 2063 for the continent’s people, Dr. Dlamini Zuma noted.