ACTIVITIES REPORT OF THE AFRICAN JUDO UNION 2014-2015 1.Statutory meetings: Between 2014-2015, the Managing Committee of the African Judo Union has held 5 meetings: 23rd March 2014 Tunis, Tunisia 30th October 2014 Algiers, Algeria 17th Janunary 2015 Tunis, Tunisia 13 February 2015 Casablanca, Morocco 25th April 2015 Libreville, Gabon These statutory meetings were convened to assess the implemented current activities organized by AJU and prepare the operations planned as part of the AJU multiannual action plan. -Inspection Missions: Many inspection missions were operated to assess the hosting and organization conditions of the different continental competitions recorded in the action plan of the AJU. A delegation from the AJU Managing Committee travelled from 14 to 19 January 2014 to Chad to examine and study the bid of the National Federation, to host the 2015 edition of the Seniors African Championships. An inspection mission was organized to Tunis in December 2013 to assess the preparations with regards of the organization of the 2014 Cadets and Juniors African Championships, scheduled in Tunisia. An inspection Mission headed to Libreville from 05 to 08 January 2015 to check and assess the preparation and organization conditions of the Seniors African Championships allocated to Gabon to be held from 23-26 April, 2015. -Disciplinary actions: 2 disciplinary cases were processed and decided. Two cases are under investigation. 2.Sports Organisation: 1
Many events were organized in the African continent under the authority of AJU. They are listed in the table below: Dates Activity City Country 25-26/01/2014 African Open Casablanca Morrocco 21-23/03/2014 Cadets and Juniors African Tunis Tunisia Championships 25-30/03/2014 International Tournament Yaounde Cameroun 01-04/05/2014 International Tournament Saint-Louis Senegal 22-26/05/2014 Youth African Games Gaborone Botswana 25-29/06/2014 Seniors African Championships Port-Louis Mauritius 06-13/08/2014 Friendship Tournament Abidjan Cote d'ivoire 07-08/11/2014 African Open Port-Louis Mauritius 17-22/01/2014 African Open Tunis Tunisia 07-08/03/2015 International Tournament Yaounde Cameroun 14-16/03/2015 African Open Casablanca Morocco 23-26/04/2015 Seniors African Championships Libreville Gabon 20-25/05/2015 IJF Masters Rabat Maroc 22-24/07/2015 Cadets and Juniors African Championships Bujumbura Burundi 01-02/08/2015 Friendship Tournament Abidjan Cote d'ivoire 3.Refereeing: The AJU Refereeing Commission has implemented many seminars for referees as shown in the table below: Dates Activity Nbr referees participants Nbr of countries City Country Seminar for 14-16/01/2014 39 03 Tunis Tunisia women referees Referreing 20 (11 25-26/01/2014 05 Saint Louis Senegal Seminar candidates) 21-23/03/2014 // // 50 candidates 14 Tunis Tunisia Refereeing 40 (31 03-06/04/2014 01 Gaya Niger Seminar candidates) Refereeing 24-25/05/2014 31 05 Gaborone Botswana Seminar 25-28/06/2014 // // 04 candidates 25 Port Louis Mauritius // // 20 (20 Cote 08-09/08/2014 05 Abidjan candidates) d'ivoire 2
24-29/09/2014 // // 29 (9 Port - South 01 candidates) Elisabeth Africa 08-09/11/2014 // // 3 candidates 26 Port Louis Mauritius 25-28/12/2014 // // 40 (11 candidates) 03 Djibouti Djibouti 17-18/01/2015 // // 16 candidates 36 Tunis Tunisia 18-19/01/2015 IJF level A Examination 2015 24 candidates (22 passed 14 africans) 15 Tunis Tunisia 05-08/03/2015 Refereeing 40 (20 Seminar candidates) 04 Yaounde Cameroon 14-15/03/2015 // // 20 34 Casablanca Morocco 4.Education and Coaching: Kata: -Organization of the 2nd International Kata Course 02-07 march 2015 Dakar, Senegal. Control of Judogi: - The Coaching Commission implemented the new IJF judogi regulations for all the different continental events organized under the authority of AJU. Coaching seminars and judogi control: Dates Activity Ville Pays 15-18/05/2014 Coaching Seminar for women Casablanca Morocco coaches 24-29/09/2014 Coaching Seminar Port Elizabeth South Africa 24-28/12/2014 // // Djibouti Djibouti 14-18/01/2014 Seminar for women coaches Tunis Tunisia 21-23/03/2014 Judogi control activities Tunis Tunisia 24-25/05/2014 // // Gaborone Botswana 25-26/01/2014 // // Casablanca Morocco 23-29/06/2014 // // Port Louis Mauritius 08-09/11/2014 // // Port-Louis Mauritius 14-15/03/2014 // // Casablanca Morocco 17-18/01/2015 // // Tunis Tunisia Olympic Solidarity funded training activities 3
- Technical courses for coaches: The following countries hosted a technical course for coaches: 2014: Guinea-Bissau, Zambia, Egypt, Morocco 2015: Mali - Development of the National Sport Structure: Countries having hosted this programme: 2014: Malawi 2015: Rwanda, Zambia - Scholarships for coaches: 2014: Burundi, Gabon, DRCongo, Guinea-Bissau 2015: Djibouti 5.Communication and Information: AJU has introduced a number of initiatives geared toward improving service delivery to members. The AJU is improving the quality of communication as part of its overall commitment to promote the sport of judo. All activities organized at a continental level were covered and posted on AJU website. External Communication: FACEBOOK: 9800 members to our page. Most of the AJU competitions, events and general information are covered on the Facebook page. The numbers of hits to our page increase especially over a competition. 4
TWITTER: We started the twitter page in early 2011, this page does not currently have such a big following but it is growing and with time it will be followed by as many members that we have on Facebook. WEBSITE: The AJU webpage is regularly updated with relevant information, 5000 hits per month average. TV and Media Coverage: We have seen good TV and print media coverage for all the recently held events and finals been broadcast live. Internal Communication Vast improvement in communication links. Information disseminated by the African Judo Union Directors through the AJU Communication Director. Communication between National Federations and the AJU has increased, but there is still a problem with Federations whose details are not up to date and emails addresses returning. 6.Situations of conflict: -Senegal Judo Federation and Associated Disciplines: A new President was elected in accordance to new adopted statutory provisions to comply with the statutes of the IJF and AJU. AJU has examined and ensured the compliance of the statutes. A representative of AJU attended the elections which were held on 12th October 2014. A representative of IJF also attended the elections. The election of a new President put an end to the temporary managing 5
committee installed by an order of the Minister of Sports of Senegal on 31 January 2013. -Congo Judo Federation: A road map has been drawn up by IJF in joint agreement with AJU to find the best solutions to the current conflict, opposing two bodies claiming recognition of their entity. The Olympic Committee of the Democratic Republic is associated as a partner to terminate this pending conflict. Some encountered difficulties, are delaying the implementation of this road map. -Kenyan Judo Federation: The statutes of the federation are examined by the AJU General Secretary before convening a General Assembly to put an end to the temporary Directing Committee which has been set up. 6