The present model of globalisation is not working for Africa and international policies must change to put jobs at the centre of the development debate in an employment-centred approach to alleviating the continent's chronic poverty, the head of the United Nations labour agency says. "The extensive policy advice given to Africa needs a reality check - a wake-up call," International Labour Organisation (ILO) Director-General Juan Somavia told the agency's Tenth African Regional Meeting at its opening session in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital.