28 Jan APSTA Newsletter January 2023 Edition

AU – APSTA – UNOAU Roundtable Workshop on the Review of AU – ASF Training Policy and Training Standards held in Nairobi Kenya 12-14 Oct 2022

The AU in collaboration with APSTA and under the auspices of APSTA invited training experts as well as consultants to review the Policy and Standards, indicating areas of focus and key contextual changes over the last 16 years.

The ASF Training Policy and ASF Training Standards were developed in November 2006, on the basis of the Policy Framework for the Establishment of the ASF and Military Staff Committee (2003) and the ASF Doctrine (2006), to provide guidelines for the AU/RECs/RMs in the planning, coordination, conduct and control of training activities of the ASF. The policy and standards also indicated the levels of training for the ASF and designed a framework for coordination and harmonization of operations in the field. Since 2006, the Policy and Standards have been the basis for the preparation of ASF components for possible deployment into AU Peace Support Operations (PSOs).

The Roundtable convened a total of eleven (11) experts : four (4) from APSTA; four (4) from the AU Commission; one (1) from the UNOAU and two (2) independent experts – Mr Sivuyile BAM and Col (rtd) Festus ABOAGYE. In three (3) days, the experts interrogated the contents of the 2006 ASF Training Policy and ASF Training Standards, against the PSO Doctrine (2021) and the ASF Policy Framework. Areas of focus included the Training Architecture and Principles …