Feedback workshop on BMGF Draft Capacity Needs Assessment Report

Johannesburg

Republic of South Africa

03 Nov, 2016

On 31 October 2016, The African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) and Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) hosted a feedback workshop to review and discuss findings of the draft capacity needs assessment report prepared under the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) capacity building initiative.

TAC is one of the six organizations that ACBF will support under this initiative to make them stronger and more effective in meeting the continent’s basic challenges. TAC is a South African-based, membership-driven grassroots organization, with an international reputation for effective advocacy in the HIV arena.

Participants at the workshop included TAC Secretary General, Anele Yawa, and David Allen, BMGF Deputy Director, HIV, Southern Africa.

ACBF has been granted the status of a specialized agency because of the potential to transform Africa through capacity development.

H.E. Thomas Kwesi Quartey, Deputy Chairperson, AU Commission

The recognition of ACBF as the African Union’s Specialized Agency for Capacity Development launches the beginning of a new era for capacity building by ACBF, which will require an appropriate level of political commitment and financial support from all stakeholders.

H.E. Erastus Mwencha, Chair, ACBF Executive Board

The remarkable achievements ACBF has registered over the past 26 years is not by accident in our opinion. They have come through hard work, dedication, commitment, purposeful leadership, support from the member countries as well as productive partnership building.

Mr. Lamin Momodou MANNEH, Director, UNDP Regional Service Centre for Africa

Africa needs ACBF as much, probably more now, than at the time it was created in 1991.

Hon. Goodall Gondwe, former Chair of the ACBF Board of Governors and Minister of Finance – Malawi

Ghana’s partnership with ACBF is a tremendous blessing for us and therefore the opportunity for Ghana to host the 26th ACBF Board of Governors Meeting is something that we treasure.

Hon Ken Ofori Atta, Chair of the ACBF Board of Governors and Minister of Finance - Ghana

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Feedback workshop on BMGF Draft Capacity Needs Assessment Report