Forum on NEPAD: 'enhancing African ownership and partnership to move the NEPAD agenda forward': aide memoire

Abstract

The key objective of the forum is to determine a broad strategic approach towards enhancing ownership and partnership in the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) by African stakeholders. This will be achieved through wider and deeper as well as an all inclusive involvement of a large cross-section of stakeholders drawn from the civil society, academia, public and private sectors. More specifically, the forum will serve as a platform for candid and open-ended dialogue towards: (1)Exploring ways and means of enhancing African ownership and partnership in the implementation of the NEPAD vision and mission, given the context of the AU/NEPAD Integration; (2)Engaging on the prospects for strengthening NEPAD, as Africa’s integrated development programme, and its governance structures, including the a lead role for the new NEPAD institution, and (3)Identification of strategies and recommendations to effectively move forward NEPAD agenda through increased ownership and partnership among African people.