Assembly/AU/Dec.635(XXVIII) Page 2 i) The Commission should initiate, without delay, a professional audit of bureaucratic bottlenecks and inefficiencies that impede service delivery and the recommendations thereof; ii) The Permanent Representatives Committee’s (PRC) Rules of Procedures should be reviewed and be in line with the mandate provided for in the Constitutive Act of the African Union. The PRC should facilitate communication between the African Union and national capitals, and act as an advisory body to the Executive Council, and not as a supervisory body of the Commission. b) On connecting the African Union to its citizens (i) The Commission should establish women and youth quotas across its institutions, and identify appropriate ways and means to ensure the private sector’s participation; (ii) The Commission should establish an African Youth Corps, as well as develop programs to facilitate cultural and sports exchange among Member States. c) On managing the business of the African Union efficiently and effectively, at both political and operational levels On political management of the Union i) The African Union Assembly shall handle an agenda of no more than three (3) strategic items at each Summit, in line with the Me’kelle Ministerial Retreat recommendations. Other appropriate business will be delegated to the Executive Council; ii) The Assembly shall hold one Ordinary Summit per year, and shall hold extraordinary sessions as the need arises; iii) In place of the June/July Summit, the Bureau of the African Union Assembly shall hold a coordination meeting with the Regional Economic Communities, with the participation of the Chairpersons of the Regional Economic Communities, the AU Commission and Regional Mechanisms. Ahead of this meeting, the AU Commission shall play a more active coordination and harmonisation role with the Regional Economic Communities, in line with the Treaty establishing of the African Economic Community (the Abuja Treaty); iv) External parties shall only be invited to Summits on an exceptional basis and for a specific purpose determined by the interests of the African Union; 28th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the Union, 30 - 31 January 2017, Addis Ababa