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) He carefully recruited a mix of experienced and young technocrats and researchers who were specialists in a variety of fields, such as employment planning and human capital development, labour mobility, urban informal sector skill formation, social protection, private sector development and social protection. His style of management provided motivation through leading by example and direct involvement in collaborative research and policy analysis. As a boss, he was kind and generous to his staff, particularly the non-international and locally-recruited general service officials whom he treated on equal footing with the international staff. Ghariballah often went beyond the call of duty to assist his colleagues at all levels in numerous ways.(

) Under Ghariballah’s watch, SATEP became the primary conduit through which ILO pushed for employment promotion to be recognized and integrated as an integral component of national development planning in Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi. SATEP also made a huge contribution towards achieving ILO core objectives in the Southern African sub-region with respect to poverty reduction, social protection, and regional integration of labour and product markets. As Director of SATEP, Ghariballah met with and got to know many political, government and business leaders from the sub-region very well; he was well liked and respected by them. This stood the ILO in good stead when such contacts were needed to win friends and influence the right people to support ILO’s mission and principles, such as promoting social progress through the application of International Labour Standards pertaining to employment and labour relations. Such was Gharibhallah’s love for Southern Africa and its peoples that he initially chose to remain in Zimbabawe as a private citizen after he retired from the ILO, and I recall visiting him in his lovely home in Harare after his retirement.(