What PALU Does
PALU formulates and implements various professional development and collective representation programmes and activities tor its corporate and individual members.
It actively engages and works with the African Union (AU) and its various organs and institutions. It has a formal Memorandum of Understanding on Co-operation and Collaboration with the AU. It is a member of the Economic, Social and Cultural Council at the African Union (ECOSOCC-AU), and i’ts President, Mr. Akere T. Muna, presides over ECOSOCC-AU. Mr. Muna is a Member of the Eminent Persons’ Panel of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM).
PALU also actively engages the AU member states, their governments and their peoples, especially through High Level Dialogue Visits, organizing conferences and workshops on Topical issues, and issuing Memoranda, Communiqués, Press Releases and Op-Eds. It is currently formulating an African Regional Integration and African International Organizations’ Strategy. This will articulate how it will support deeper, wider and people-based integration in the AU, the Regional Economic Communities (RECs) and other International Organizations.
PALU is also formulating an African International Courts and Tribunals’ Strategy, that will define how it will utilise and promote the utilisation of the existing African international judicial and quasi-judicial institutions to contribute to democracy, good governance, the just rule of law, protection and promotion of human and peoples rights, as well as peace, security and stability on the African continent. It is also engaging several strategic partners, including the African Development Bank (AfDB) and has partnered with the African Support Facility in a programme on International Commercial Law in Africa. It has also secured Funding support from the Swedish International Development Co-operation Agency for a programme on the African Human Rights, Peace and Security System.