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ILO assistance to the AU

Transition from OAU to AU - ILO supported the OAU in its strive to bring about an African renaissance through a well-planned process of structural, constitutional, political, economic and social transformation of Africa. A team of experts were contracted to examine and review the institutional capacity-building needs for up-grading the OAU Secretariat to a Commission that will serve the Secretariat of the African Union. Accordingly, the team involved in 

    institutional and organisational evaluation and auditing of both the existing OAU Secretariat and the future Commission of the AU;

    human resource development - in particular formulating proposals for training/retraining as well as retrenchment packages in the transition process; and

    development of new and competitive staff management tools.

The team output included a wide range of proposals and recommendations on the architecture and structure of the Union’s key organs as well as the design of the Organizational Chart of the Commission.

The Social Policy framework for Africa - The ILO collaborates with the Commission of the African Union in the development of a Social Policy Framework for Africa in view of the multifarious human, social and economic problems hindering sustainable development of the continent. Activities towards achieving this end include

setting up an AU Tripartite Committee of experts from various social desciplines

development of 5 sub-regional reports

a meeting on technical validation of first drafts in Ouagadougou in November 2003

finalisationof asynthesis regional report underway

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