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NEW PARTNERSHIP FOR AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT (NEPAD)

African Forum for Envisioning Africa: Focus on NEPAD

International Conference
Date: April 26-29, 2002
Venue: Safari Park; Nairobi, Kenya
Organised in co-operation with Mazingira Institute and the African Academy of Sciences

The New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD), Africa's strategy for achieving sustainable development in the 21st Century and its contribution to the upcoming World Summit for Sustainable Development, was adopted by African leaders at the July 2001 Lusaka Summit. It provides an African initiated and driven framework for interaction with the rest of the world, with the long-term vision of eradicating poverty and promoting the role of women in all activities.

NEPAD is to be "prepared through participatory processes involving the people," however, until now, it remains unknown to a majority of the African people, its barely understood by African development agents including those in African government and has drawn little interest from African scholars.Yet it is meant to define Africa's development path for the 21st century.

In April 2002, the Heinrich Böll Foundation, together with Mazingira Institute and the African Academy of Sciences, held its African Forum for Envisioning Africa: Focus on NEPAD to critically examine NEPAD and its underlying principles. More than 50 African scholars attended the conference. The Conference was convened as a follow-up to the first African Scholar's Forum held in September 2001, entitled "Sustainable Development, Governance and Globalization: An African Forum for Strategic Thinking and Action towards the Earth Summit 2002 and Beyond".

The papers have been compiled into a publication entitled NEPAD: A NEW PATH? [ pdf; 350 pages; 3.90 Mb ]

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Please note: the papers are for distribution and information. Publication of the papers without the consent of the Heinrich Böll Foundation is not permitted.

[ NEPAD: A NEW PATH? Publication -- pdf; 350 pages; 3.90 Mb ]

[ Executive Summary of the African Forum for Envisioning Africa, A Focus on NEPAD -- pdf; 12 pages]

[ From the Lagos Plan of Action to the New Partnership for African Development and from the Final Act of Lagos to the Constitutive Act: Wither Africa? By Adebayo Adedeji, -- pdf; 17 pages ]

[ Governing the African Political Space for Sustainable Development: A Reflection on NEPAD; by Adebayo Olukoshi; CODESRIA; Senegal; -- pdf; 17 pages ]

[ Economic Governance and the Partnership for African Development (Nepad); by Akpan H. Ekpo; University Of Uyo; Uyo, Akwa Ibom State; Nigeria; -- pdf; 25 pages ]

[ Unity or Poverty: The Dilemmas of Progress in Africa Since Independence; by P. Anyang' Nyong'o; Fellow; African Academy of Sciences; Nairobi, Kenya; -- pdf; 9 pages ]

[ Democratic Governance and New Democracy in Africa: Agenda for the Future; by Archie Mafeje; -- pdf; 18 pages ]

[ Le NEPAD, ou le défi du rattrapage; by Bernard Founou-Tchuigoua; Directeur de Recherches; Forum du Tiers Monde; -- pdf; 29 pages ] + [ english version ]

[ NEPAD: Historical Background and its Prospects; by Dani W. Nabudere; -- pdf; 28 pages ]

[ The New African Initiative: Peace, Justice and Reparations or the Rekindling of the Human Spirit; by Horace Campbell; Syracuse University, USA; -- pdf; 47 pages ]

[ A Reflection Paper on The Sectoral Priorities of NEPAD; By Lual A. Deng, Ph.D.; Institute of Development, Environment and Agricultural Studies (IDEAS); Yambio, New Sudan; -- pdf; 28 pages ]

[ Assessing Opportunities and Formulating New Approaches: NEPAD -- the New Partnership for African Development; by Roger K. Oden, Third World Conference Foundation, USA; -- pdf; 19 pages ]

[ NEPAD and the environment: envisaging the ecological consequences of outward-oriented development in Africa; by Roldan Muradian; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; -- pdf; 33 pages ]

[ Assessment of the Gender Orientation of NEPAD; by Sara Hlupekile Longwe; -- pdf; 33 pages ]

[ The Rule of Law, Human and Peoples' Rights and Compliance/Non-Compliance with Regional and International Agreements and Standards by African States; by Shadrack Gutto; Centre for Applied Legal Studies; School of Law University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; -- pdf; 14 pages ]

[ Partnerships and Nepad; by Sunday T. Dogonyaro; NEPAD Secretariat; -- pdf; 7 pages ]

[ The Resource Mobilisation Strategy (RMS) Of The New Partnership For Africa's Development (NEPAD): A Critical Appraisal; by Theresa Moyo; Samcaf; Harare; -- pdf; 45 pages ]

[ NEPAD and FDIs: Symmetries and Contradictions; by Yash Tandon; -- pdf; 26 pages ]

[ In Search of Gender Justice: Lessons from the Past and Unraveling the 'New' in NEPAD; by Zenebework Tadesse, Forum for Social Science Studies, Ethiopia; -- pdf; 20 pages ]

RESOURCES

[ Concept Paper of the African Forum -- rtf; 8 pages ]

[ NEPAD Forum working document -- rtf; 3 pages ]

[ An Initial Commentary to the NEPAD by the Southern African Regional Poverty Network -- rtf; 14 pages ]

[ Africa and the World Trade Organization: The Issues in Brief -- Foreign Policy In Focus Article ]

[ Text of the NEPAD -- pdf; 60 pages ]

[ Africans press Economic Initiatives; Earthtimes News Story ]

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