The 53rd Executive Board meeting of the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF), held on 8-10 December 2014 in Harare, ended on a high note with the Board approving the Foundations 2015 Business Plan, Budget and six new operations.
The new operations include:
- The Malawi Public Policy Research and Analysis Project
- The Africa Union Capacity Building Program
- The East African Community Capacity Building Project
- The Capacity Building Project for the Intergovernmental Authority for Development (IGAD)
- The Capacity Building Project for the for the West African Economic and Monetary Union
- The Ghana Policy Analysis, Research and Monitoring and Evaluation Unit
The three-day Executive Board meeting, held at the ACBF’s secretariat also included an induction for the new Board members on the ACBF mandate, organizational architecture, legal and operational frameworks.
The Board also approved the Foundation’s revised operations manual and the resource mobilization effort of the Foundation.
Management updated the Board on ACBF’s new Business Model which emphasizes enhanced partnerships with mature implementing partners, decentralization of operations, effective use of ICT and multidisciplinary teams for supervision mission and clarity of business processes.
The next Executive Board meeting is scheduled for the end of the first quarter of 2015.
