Africa

International Mayors' Forum

UNPOG sent Mr. Keping Yao, Governance and Public Administration Expert, to attend the 2nd International Mayors’ Forum, where over mayors from over 70 cities participated in the forum to share best practices for making local communities more inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. The Forum was jointly organized by UN Office for Sustainable Development (UNOSD) and UNPOG, in collaboration with UNDP Malawi and the Government of Malawi.

Virtual capacity development training workshops on how to promote resilience and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa through sound policymaking

Organized by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), through its Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government (DPIDG), Resident Coordinators Offices (RCOs) and the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM).

Regional Webinars in Africa on Resilience and Recovery from Covid-19 Through Sound Policymaking / Strategic planning and foresight

The abovementioned partners held a series of virtual workshops on how to promote resilience and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa through sound policymaking. The workshops was held on different dates and virtually using the Zoom platform. 

The workshops aimed at developing the capacities of national governments to promote sound policymaking, with a particular focus on policy coherence, strategic planning and foresight and risk management. More specifically, the workshops :

Resilience & Recovery from Covid-19 through Sound Policymaking with a focus on Policy Coherence

The abovementioned partners held a series of virtual workshops on how to promote resilience and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa through sound policymaking. This 3rd workshop was held on 17 January 2022 via the Zoom platform.

The workshops aimed at developing the capacities of national governments to promote sound policymaking, with a particular focus on policy coherence, strategic planning and foresight and risk management. More specifically, the workshops :

AAPAM 88th Newsletter (Jan 2021 - June 2021)

AAPAM is a Non-Profit Organization that (since 1971) works to strengthen the administrative and management capacities of African public administration systems. Public Administrators, Managers, civil savant, Scholars, Teachers and researchers need access to contextually relevant quality publications from Africa in order to develop solutions to address the continent’s challenges in administration, managerial, learn institutions and Civil Service.

40th AAPAM Roundtable Conference on “Transforming Institutions in Africa for Sustainable Development ”

African Association for Public Administration and Management (AAPAM) organizes an Annual Roundtable Conference held in various countries across the continent. The Association also holds other conferences focusing on current critical issues in African public administration and management in order to increase the knowledge and skills of policy-makers and all stakeholders across the continent.

2017 Africa Open Data Conference (AODC)

This auspicious event will push the leadership role of the private sector in supplying, using, and demanding open data; bring together brilliant innovators and visionaries to grow their networks, hone their success, and connect with sources of support; and introduce investors and donors to an expanding sector that seeks and supplies open data to achieve development goals in Africa and across the globe. 

African Journal of Public Administration and Management, Vol XXVIII No. 1

AJPAM is the official Journal of the African Association for Public Administration and Management (AAPAM), Africa’s continental professional association for public administrators and managers. AAPAM brings together policy makers, management practitioners and scholars associated with the state and non-state sectors. AAPAM is also affiliated with other International and professional bodies across the globe. AJPAM is a bi- annual publication published in January and July each year. AJPAM’s editorial policy is to publish original works that are practical and scientifically based and /or suggest new insights and innovative ideas in African and Global Administration and Management.