From right to left: Mr Éric FALT, Director of the UNESCO Office for the Maghreb, and Dr. C. Dieudonné ASSOUVI, Director General of CAFRAD

Dr. Coffi Dieudonné ASSOUVI undertook diagnostic, rehabilitation and remobilization tours of Member States and partners but above all sharing his shock therapy for CAFRAD. This transition manager and transformational leader, who made his mandate under the sign of listening and consulting, went to the UNESCO Office for the Maghreb on Wednesday January 8, 2025.

Indeed, at his request, the new Director General was received in audience by Mr Éric FALT, Director of the UNESCO Office for the Maghreb, Representative of UNSCO to Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Mauritania and Tunisia.

CAFRAD was created in May 1964 with the support of UNESCO, with the aim of Africanizing the civil service, harmonizing its interventions and efforts and adapting it to new African realities and development imperatives. Born from the desire to provide our African continent with a framework of design and management that meet the requirements of regained sovereignty and the imperatives of harmonious and secure development, CAFRAD is built to be the point of convergence and the crucible for the exchange of knowledge and information among senior African executives, and the center for the development of human resources capable of supporting African unity. It aims to create a bank of experts of a high intellectual level, a bank of possibilities and work, to provide training to all senior African executives.

CAFRAD is an intergovernmental organization of a scientific, cultural and technical nature, responsible for the public service of training and research and supporting transformations in public action and public innovation.

The objective of the visit of the new Director General of CAFRAD is to reconnect with UNESCO in order to benefit, as in the past, from its expertise, its support and above all its political, technical, financial and diplomatic support to consolidate its African and international legitimacy and carry out activities with high added value in the interest of Member States.

At the end of the discussions, the two diplomats agreed to find avenues of cooperation between the two Organizations with a view to joint actions.

From right to left: Mr Éric FALT, Director of the UNESCO Office for the Maghreb, and Dr. C. Dieudonné ASSOUVI, Director General of CAFRAD