Examples of AU Commission in a sentence
The AU Commission is an equal opportunity employer and qualified women are strongly encouraged to apply.
The AU Commission is an equal opportunity employer and qualified candidates, including women, are strongly encouraged to apply.
In 2006, the ECOWAS Authority amended the 1993 revised Treaty to establish the ECOWAS Commission, which would be able to collaborate more efficiently with the AU Commission.
This followed the signing of an MoU on Cooperation in the Field of Peace and Security between the AU and RECs that encourages the RECs to open liaison offices at the AU Commission.
The ECOWAS office at the AU Commission has been in operation since 2008, even though the AU is yet to create a similar office within the ECOWAS Commission.
The EU as part of its institutional support programme to the AU signed in 2006 a multilateral agreement with the AU Commission.
With £4,614,775 (93.47%) drawn from the original budget of £4,937,328 by the end of 31 March 2014, the AU Commission achieved some success in areas of public sector policy and election monitoring.250Following the expiry of the first phase of the programme in 2013, it has been extended to provide support for the AU Commission’s Strategic Plan 2013-2016 towards improving the continent’s good governance, democratic principles as well as peace and security.
As part of the agreement, the EU committed to the AU €55 million as a means of facilitating an ‘integrated and comprehensive support’ to five main AU institutions with human rights mandates.234 Under the first phase (2006-2013), funding assisted the AU Commission, Pan African Parliament (PAP), African Commission for Human and Peoples' Rights (African Commission) and the African Court for Human and Peoples' Rights (African Court) to revamp and enhance their capacities in human rights and democracy building.
Despite being initiated by the AU Commission and implemented by diverse domestic and international actors,240 the initiative is funded solely by the EU.
The mandate of the initiative is to assist the AU Commission in promotion of good governance and rule of law in AU member states.