Progress report on the follow-up on the recommendations of the conference of African ministers responsible for human resource planning, development and utilization in public administration and management

Abstract

Soon after the Conference ended a training workshop was held in November 1981 in the Ivory Coast for the Francophone African countries. The workshop was heavily attended by senior government officials and it specifically dealt with governmental structures for accelerated development. Questions considered by the Ministers in their Conference were also discussed in the workshop. These questions were on attitudes of public servants, decentralization, especially of the decision making process - ability of senior civil servants to identify difficult problems and to come up with solutions, their ability to foresee future challenges and to plan for them; their ability to analyse policy issues and to present them succinctly to politicians with a provision of a number of policy options together with an analysis of their relative strengths and weaknesses. A similar workshop was planned for early next year for the anglophone countries in Eastern and Southern Africa but was called off because of lack of funding.