On the sidelines of the UCLG Africa West Africa Strategic Meeting, the Observatory of Human Resources of Local Government in Africa organized its 1st Focus Group on ” HRM at local level in Africa: Challenges, Reforms and Best Practices” at the Tang Palace Hotel in Accra, Ghana, on Wednesday 30th May 2018.

The Focus Group brought together about sixty participants from eight (8) countries of the region (Capo Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea Bissau, Ghana, Gambia, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone) representing the different actors and stakeholders concerned by the issue of Human Resource Management at territorial level: national associations of local authorities; representatives of national governments; networks of local government professionals and managers as well as the unions of the territorial managers; representatives of training institutes targeting local government, including anchoring institutes of the African Academy of Local Governments (ALGA); experts ; executives of the General Secretariat and UCLG Africa Regional Office for West Africa; representatives of development partners.

The main objective of this workshop was to identify and gather around a table of discussion and brainstorming, the different actors and stakeholders concerned with HRM at local level in Africa, to discuss on roles and responsibilities, challenges faced, good practices, and to identify possible reform to improve and professionalize the HRM of African Local Government.