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The 29th Roundtable Conference of the African Association for Public Administration and Management (AAPAM) was hosted by the Government of the Royal Kingdom of Swaziland. It was organized by AAPAM in conjunction with the Swaziland National Organizing Committee (NOC). Three hundred and twenty (320) delegates from nineteen (19) countries participated in the Roundtable. They included Cabinet Ministers, Heads of Public Services and Secretaries to Cabinet, Permanent/Principal Secretaries and other high ranking Government Officials, Chairpersons and Commissioners of Public Service Commissions and other appointing Commissions, Heads of Management Development Institutes, representatives of Statutory Institutions and international organizations as well as renowned scholars and academics. The countries represented at the Roundtable included Botswana, Cameroon, Ghana, The Gambia, India, Kenya, Lesotho, Namibia, Nigeria, Mozambique, Malawi, Mauritius, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, United Kingdom, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. International organizations and AAPAM development partners represented at the Roundtable included the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), the Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC), and the Commonwealth Secretariat, London.

The 29th Roundtable was a continuation of the tradition dating back to 1978 of holding AAPAM Annual conferences in different member countries with each conference addressing issues of contemporary relevance and concern based on the experiences of policy makers, senior public officials, corporate and civic leaders, and renowned public administration and management scholars. The Conference also strengthened the AAPAM Young Professionals Programme which was started in 2005, of involving young public servants in the African Public Services in the conference deliberations as a way of promoting their professional development through inter-generational knowledge transfer and the sharing of learning experiences.

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