President
of the Pan-African Parliament (PAP), H.
E. Senator Chief Fortune Charumbira has arrived Lusaka, Zambia for the 41st
Ordinary Session of the Executive Council of the African Union scheduled to
take place from the 14th to the 15th July 2022 at Kenneth Kaunda International
Conference Centre in Lusaka.
The
Session will be held under the theme of the year: “Building resilience in
nutrition on the African continent: Accelerate the Human Capital, Social and
Economic Development’
It
would be recalled that parliamentary activities resumed at PAP on 27 June after
a year’s suspension and the Pan-African Parliament, led by H.E. Chief Fortune Charumbira, will reclaim her rightful place
among other AU Organs, as the African integration agenda takes center stage.
A
report on the peaceful, free and fair elections of the PAP Bureau will feature
on the agenda of the meeting which consists of the Foreign Ministers of Member
States, with the new leadership of the continental Parliament expected to make
their debut at the Executive Council.
The
Executive Council will also consider reports on:
- The conference
of state parties of the African Medicines Agency (AMA) on the hosting of
the AMA headquarters;
- Phase one and
two on the operationalization of the Africa CDC and the financial
sustainability of the Africa Epidemics Fund;
- The
implementation of the transition plan including quota system, audit skills
and emergency recruitment plan;
- The mid-term
implementation report of the African Union theme of the year for 2022 on
nutrition;
- Appropriate level of funds to be
used under the crisis reserve facility of the AU Peace Fund. It will also
consider various reports of its committees.
The Council is also
expected to elect and appoint two judges of the African Court on Human and
Peoples’ Rights; one member of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’
Rights; two members of the African Union Advisory Board Against Corruption; one
representative of Southern Africa for the 5th Panel of
the Wise, and appoint members of the AU Board of External Auditors.
Further, the Executive
Council will consider the draft working documents and declaration of the 4th Mid-Year Coordination Meeting between the
African Union, the Regional Economic Communities and the Regional Mechanisms.
These documents include; the Report on the Status of the Regional Integration
in Africa and the Report on the Division of Labour Between the AU, RECS/RMS and
Member States. The ministers will consider the Success Story of INTER-REC
Cooperation based on the Tripartite FTA Between COMESA, EAC SADC and the EAC.
They will hold a High-Level Reflection and Policy Orientation on evaluation of
the First Ten Year Implementation Plan and elaboration of the Second Ten Year
Implementation Plan of the African Union’s Agenda 2063 development framework;
and consider the draft agenda as well as the draft declaration of the 4th
Mid-Year Coordination Meeting between the AU, the RECs and RMs.
On the 16th of July, a pre-launch event of the
inter-regional knowledge exchange (I-RECKE) on Early Warning and Conflict
Prevention will be held. I-RECKE is an institutional community of practice for
intra-continental and cross-regional learning to build peace. It is a
Pan-African mechanism for developing, capturing and documenting knowledge and
also sharing lessons learned, and experiences on governance and conflict
prevention on the continent.
The 17th of July will see the holding of the 4th Mid Year Coordination Meeting between the
bureau of the AU Assembly and Regional Economic Communities (RECs), with the
participation of the Chairpersons of RECs, the AU Commission and Regional
Mechanisms (RMs), with the aim of aligning their work and coordinating the
implementation of the continental integration agenda.
During the ongoing meetings, the host country will launch the
Zambia water investment programme and high level water investment forum, and
hold a meeting on strengthening public health emergency operations centers in
Africa. It will also launch the education plus initiative for adolescent girls
and young women’s empowerment in sub Saharan Africa.
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