Bienvenidos a las Naciones Unidas
As globalization is impacting our life in different ways across the world, the State may be losing some of its traditional functions to supranational and sub-national institutions. At the same time, advances in communication, technology and science are changing our way of life in a manner that is totally unpredictable. If we want Africa to be part of the process and to benefit from it, among other actions, Africans and their Govern-ments have to influence their own future by taking decisive steps to enter into the new millennium as full-fledged participants. An enabling environment for business and investment can only happen if there are public institutions in place that facilitate oppor-tunities for the private sector and civil society. In this regard, the initiative taken by the African Ministers of Civil Service at their Second Pan-African Conference, held in Rabat in December 1998, has to be highlighted as a step in the right direction.