Objectives

• Develop and strengthen human capacities in public administration and governance.

• Develop and mobilize African expertise to provide expert advice to countries involved in reorganization, innovation, modernization, and re-inventing public administration and governance.

• Undertake, promote and coordinate comparative studies and research on administrative and governance problems connected with social and economic development in Africa .

• Develop partnership and collaboration with national, regional and international organizations in the area of training, research, and consultancy in public administration and governance.

• Act as host and scientific liaison for the particular benefit of institutes and schools of administration and governance, universities and more generally, any other agencies, whose activities come within the scope of the Centre’s competence.

• Promote inter-African cooperation and serve as a think-tank framework for knowledge development and exchange of experiences between  experts, practitioners and policy-makers and institutions.