The African Organization for International Development (AOID) is an autonomous and specialized agency of African Union.
The establishment of African Organization for International Development (AOID) is part of the process of making the Sustainable Development Goals of the African Union for development operational based on Article 112(10) of the Constitutive Act of the African Union.
Held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Assembly of the Heads of States and Government (Assembly) adopted the Statute of the African Union Commission on International Law, by its Decision Assembly/AU/Dec.209 (XII).
The Summit held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia comprising of the Assembly of the Heads of States and Government (Assembly) adopted the Statute of the African Union Commission on International Law (AUCIL), by its Decision Assembly and the council of Ministers decided to create a specialized technical body to manage African Union projects and programmes while building the capacities of bodies in African Development council, particularly the Department of Sustainable Development.
The commission therefore created the African Organization for International Development (AOID) through regulation AU/Oct.311(CCCXI) of The African Union Commission on International Law (AUCIL); It was officially launched in Nairobi, Kenya on the 30th October 1989.
African Organization for International Development (AOID) is a technical body that specialises in implementation placed under the aegis of the Commissioner responsible for Sustainable Development goals. It reports to the Commissioner and decision making bodies of African Union member states. In light of the purpose of Sustainable Development, regional integration in Africa Union Member states, and the objectives of the Sustainable Development programmes (national and regional), the mandate assigned to African Organization for International Development (AOID) is to “ensure the technical implementation of the regional investment programmes and plans contributing to making the African Union Development operational by calling on the regional institutions, bodies and actors with recognised competencies” through tenders and procurements.
Implementing the investment programmes requires the creation of sufficiently well-equipped and accountable governance institutions in an institutional landscape marked by the duplication of bodies and activities. With this in mind, the African Organization for International Development (AOID) is the technical institution through which African Union Member states can fully assume its sovereign role in accompanying the regional actors and institutions in the field of cooperation in implementing the investment plans. As such, the organization is not directly responsible for executing the actions in the field, instead negotiating contracts with the technical institutions and all other actors demonstrating recognised competencies.
More specifically, African Organization for International Development (AOID) has the mandate to strengthen the technical capacities of the African Union Member States to intervene and take action, in particular those of the Capacity Building programmes in the implementation of investment programmes to enable it fully play its sovereign role including, strategic orientation, regulations, guidance, evaluation and strategic monitoring.
