African Management Development Institute Network-SIM to benefit from AMDIN membership |12 October 2007

This follows the AMDIN conference and biennial general meeting held recently in Midrand, South Africa.  The meeting was attended by the SIM’s chief executive officer Daniella Larue.

The gathering brought together heads of institutions similar to SIM and senior officials from seventeen African countries.

Also attending the meeting were supporters and development partners of AMDIN notably the African Union (AU) commission and representatives from its programme NEPAD, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank, the Commonwealth Secretariat, development agencies from the German and Japanese governments, the Management Development Institute (MDI) in Brazil and the Civil Service college of Singapore.

Talking to the media following her participation in the recent meeting, Mrs Larue said that being a member of the AMDIN will also be an opportunity for SIM to share ideas with and learn from other similar institutions in order to address in a united way the challenges which all similar institutions face.

“The challenges other institutions faced are similar all around,” Mrs Larue pointed out.
It is to be noted that the AMDIN was formed some two years ago to regroup all those institutions in the African region with the aim of placing more emphasis on training of practitioners in order to improve performances in employment.

It is in line with this that three Seychellois instructors from the SIM will be attending a training for trainers in problem-solving being organized by the AMDIN to be held in South Africa next month.

It is to be noted that as one of its recommendations, the recent AMDIN meeting agreed that the organisation has a critical role to play in addressing the deficiencies that exist in the African MDIs at institutional and individual levels.

In order to address that, the meeting reiterated the importance for the AMDIN to establish good networking among its members, to share resources, including  expertise and knowledge, in the interest of securing human development on the African continent.