Public deserves more information on NEPAD's achievements, challenges: ECA official tells experts’ meeting

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The Director of the Economic Development and NEPAD Division ECA's has said that officials and experts working on the implementation of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) owe the public clear explanations on what the initiative has achieved in the 10 years of its existence. Addressing an expert group meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia today, Prof. Emmanuel Nnadozie said that the production of a landmark report by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa on how the continental initiative has fared 10 years later has heightened and renewed public enthusiasm in the initiative. The report under review provides a better understanding of the challenges to the implementation of NEPAD”, Nnadozie added. Providing ideas to lead the discussion, he cited events such as the NEPAD Colloquium and Congress held in March this year in Addis Ababa, and the Regional Dialogue on Enhanced Coordination towards NEPAD Implementation, held last June in Durban, saying they have contributed immensely to improving our understanding of what needs to be done to overcome the bottlenecks to the implementation of NEPAD.