Fifth Conference of African Ministers Responsible for Civil Registration
Theme: “Innovative Civil Registration and Vital Statistics System: Foundation for Legal Identity Management”
Promoting Africa’s growth and economic development by championing citizen inclusion and increased cooperation and integration of African states.
Promoting Africa’s growth and economic development by championing citizen inclusion and increased cooperation and integration of African states.
Agenda 2063 is the blueprint and master plan for transforming Africa into the global powerhouse of the future. It is the strategic framework for delivering on Africa’s goal for inclusive and sustainable development and is a concrete manifestation of the pan-African drive for unity, self-determination, freedom, progress and collective prosperity pursued under Pan-Africanism and African Renaissance.
H.E. Mr. Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda, was appointed to lead the AU institutional reforms process. He appointed a pan-African committee of experts to review and submit proposals for a system of governance for the AU that would ensure the organisation was better placed to address the challenges facing the continent with the aim of implementing programmes that have the highest impact on Africa’s growth and development so as to deliver on the vision of Agenda 2063.
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Theme: “Innovative Civil Registration and Vital Statistics System: Foundation for Legal Identity Management”
Within the framework of PATTEC initiative the PATTEC Coordination Office is mandated to monitor and evaluate the implementation progress made by member states towards tsetse and trypanosomiasis control and eradication. In line with this, a situation analysis mission to evaluate the implementation of tsetse and trypanosomiasis control interventions comprising Dr. Gift Wiseman Wanda, Acting Coordinator of the Pan African Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis (T&T) Eradication Campaign (PATTEC), and Mr Girma Urgeacha, GIS database specialist was undertaken to Zambia from 10 to 14 June 2019.
The African Union – Economic Social and Cultural Council elected 10 cluster chairs to head the organ’s corresponding clusters which mirror the structure of the African union Commission. The election took place on Wednesdays 11 December 2018, during the 2nd Ordinary Session of the 3rd Permanent General Assembly of ECOSOCC held in Lusaka, Zambi
The Standing Committee of the AU ECOSOCC, join hands as an advisory organ of the African Union to continue to call for peace to prevail in Sudan on the matter of peace and security situation in the country.
In its deliberations, the AU-ECOSOCC Standing Committee:
Lusaka, Zambia, June 18, 2019: Member States of the African Union and the regional economic communities (RECs) meeting to validate the Draft Implementation Plan of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) in Africa started on June 18th June in Lusaka, Zambia.
What: The General Assembly of the African Union (AU) Economic, Social and Cultural Council (ECOSOCC) to elect new Bureau members.
Who: Organized by the ECOSOCC Secretariat / Citizens and Diaspora Organizations Directorate (CIDO) of the AU Commission.
When: 11-12 June 2019
Where: The meeting will be held at the Hilton Garden Inn; Lusaka, Zambia.
Time : 9:00 A.M.
Objectives of the Meeting:
The AU Member States and RECs meeting to validate the Draft Implementation Plan of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) in Africa
What: The AU Member States and RECs meeting to validate the Draft Implementation Plan of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) in Africa
When: 18-19 June 2019.
Where: Best Western Plus Hotel, Lusaka, Republic of Zambia
Who: The event is organized by the African Union Commission Department of Social Affairs
Objectives:
Livingstone, Zambia, March 25, 2019: A Four days training on Law and policy training on African Humanitarian Architecture has commenced in Livingstone, Republic of Zambia, in line with the African Union theme for 2019, “The Year of Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons:Towards Durable Solutions to Forced Displacement in Africa”.
Livingston, Zambia, 3 December 2018: At the invitation of the President of the Bureau of the African Civil Aviation Commission (AFCAC), the Director for Infrastructure and Energy, Mr. Cheikh Bedda, led an African Union Commission (AUC) delegation to Livingston, Zambia, to assist with the election of a new Secretary General of AFCAC.
Lusaka, Zambia, 25 September 2018 - The African Union Commission (AUC) through the Department of Trade and Industry hosted the inaugural African Union Workshop on Strengthening Regional Trade Policy Dialogue Platforms from 25TH to 28TH September 2018. This innovative event, designed in partnership with COMESA and GIZ’s support, aims at strengthening dialogue and inclusiveness in trade policy making processes.