A committee chair addressing delegates during YMAU V

05 · The ProgrammeThree days · Addis Ababa

Policy fluency meets practical leadership.

15-17 March 2027

Committee session · YMAU VOfficial YMAU V media archive

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At a glance

Three movements through one conference.

The detailed running order will be published when sessions and speakers are confirmed. This is the architecture delegates can prepare around now.

Monday15 March

Opening

Arrival, delegate orientation and the formal opening of YMAU VI.

YMAU V delegates debating across a committee room

Tuesday16 March

Deliberation

A full day of committee work, leadership programming and cultural exchange.

The YMAU V delegation gathered on stage for the closing assembly

Wednesday17 March

Resolution

Final negotiations, adoption of resolutions and a closing assembly for the full delegation.

The institutional record

What changes each year.
What YMAU keeps.

Past editions do not determine the 2027 running order, but they do reveal the conference’s recurring educational grammar.

Simulate

African Union-inspired moderated debate has been the intellectual core of YMAU from the beginning.

Learn

Curated speakers and pan-African practitioners connect committee questions to lived institutional work.

Build

Leadership workshops turn negotiation, research and collaboration into skills delegates can carry home.

Final speakers, sessions, committee timings and special programmes will be published once approved by the YMAU VI team.

Beyond the committee room

A conference is more than its schedule.

Panels

Practitioners and policy leaders connect committee questions to choices being made across the continent now.

Leadership workshops

Small, applied sessions turn broad ambitions into tools delegates can take back to their institutions.

Career fair

Delegates meet organizations working across public service, development, finance, research and continental institutions.

Pre-conference webinars

A digital preparation series introduces the African Union, procedure and the policy context needed before Addis.

Signature programme

Mandate
to Market

Participants take an African Union mandate beyond the meeting room and shape it into an actionable, locally grounded proposal. Implementation, not presentation alone, is the measure.

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Committee workSee how deliberation is structured.Before AddisPrepare through the digital series.