Ruto to lead reforms at AU Commission
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President William Ruto appointed as AU, African Union's Champion for Institutional Reform
President William Ruto appointed as AU, African Union’s Champion for Institutional Reform.
President Ruto has been picked as the new African Union Champion for Institutional Reform, at the ongoing Assembly of the African Union heads of State and Government in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
In the new role, Ruto will succeed his Rwandese counterpart Paul Kagame who will step down from the role after serving for seven years.
His role involves providing political leadership as well as completing the comprehensive Institutional Reform initiative.
The appointing body, AU’s Assembly of Heads of State and Government, further tasked Ruto to revitalize the structure, functions, and objectives of the union’s organs, including the African Union Commission, which Azimio’s Raila Odinga aims to chair.
The role was created in 2016 after African leaders saw the need to drive institutional reforms to achieve economic growth and development.
The leaders subsequently appointed Kagame to lead the process and ensure agencies become more effective in managing AU’s programmes.
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“The AU Reform Agenda must therefore be a priority and we must interrogate and conduct the process to ensure that structurally, the roles of the bureau, summits, committees, regional caucuses, secretariat, and commission are duly rationalized to give Africa a fit-for-purpose continental governance body with the capacity to engage globally,” he added.
President Ruto urged other African leaders to donate power to the AU Commission on matters of trade, and regional and global security to benefit the continent.
Ruto has been calling for reforms in the way the AU Commission has been operating since its inception.
Among the issues he has been pushing for is to establish a robust financing mechanism and to have more powers delegated to the Union when it comes to negotiating on behalf of African countries.
He insists that the Continent needs to speak in one voice and that the AU is best placed to do it.
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