The Board of Governors (BoG) of the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF), the African Union’s specialized agency for capacity development, holds its annual meeting on June 25, 2021. BoG is the governing body supreme director of the Foundation, whose role is to define the general policy and strategic orientations of the ACBF. The virtual meeting will be moderated by the Minister of Finance of the Republic of Ghana, H.E Ken Ofori-Atta, Chairman of the Board of Governors of ACBF. Governors will need to discuss the general state of the Foundation, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on its activities, and chart the course for the future.
The Executive Secretary of ACBF, Prof. Emmanuel NNDADOZIE, declares that the 2021 meeting of the Board of Directors is special because it marks the 30 years of existence of the Foundation in the remarkable service of capacity building in Africa. “Governors will reflect on the financial situation of the Foundation and set the tone for the priorities and development capacity needs of African member states.”
“The pandemic has taken a toll on lives and livelihoods and exposed the severity of the capacity challenges facing African countries. ACBF stands ready to continue to support African countries and their institutions in their efforts to develop or strengthen human, institutional and non-technical resources and will continue in this regard to mobilize resources, support Member States and to enable them to emerge from the disaster induced by COVID-19 and achieve their development objectives. ACBF calls on the Board of Governors to continue to support the Foundation’s effort to mobilize adequate and predictable resources for its work ”.
The Board of Governors is a forum of Foundation shareholders made up of Ministers of Finance or Planning as representatives of ACBF member countries and non-regional funding partners and founding institutional members — African Development Bank, Program of United Nations for Development and World Bank-.