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ment and Planning is relevant to the work and thrust of the Platform,otherwise known as APDev. This welcome initiative of the AfricanUnion Commission (AUC), the NEPAD Planning and CoordinatingAgency, and partner institutions will mobilize African policy makersand practitioners toward achieving sustainable development results;Indeed by providing a physical and virtual multi-stakeholder forumfocusing on Aid Effectiveness, South-South Cooperation and CapacityDevelopment, APDev will enable policy and decision makers toconnect through a linkage of existing communities of practice. It willalso serve as an African window to the outside world on the evolvingglobal economic governance architecture;It is quite evident that greater investment in knowledge and learningis required for Africa to be globally competitive. However, withso many actors, sources of knowledge and communications media,there need for better coordination and coherence. APDev promisesto play this role if it evolves in an inclusive and all-engaging manner.In addition to better coordination of consultation, dialogue andknowledge sharing among African stakeholders, APDev should beconfigured to provide much needed support to African countries andRECs in the implementation of the Paris Declaration and the AccraAgenda for Action. This will enable the consolidation of African commonpositions on key issues of development effectiveness particularlywith regard to preparations for the Fourth High Level Forum on AidEffectiveness taking place in Busan, South Korea in November 2011;APDev’s ambitious programme of activities, including the publishingof the “State of Capacity Development in Africa Report” in 2012, acapacity building support programme for RECs and the articulationof a consensus paper on Development Effectiveness for Busan, arecrucial in accompanying Africa’s development efforts and should besupported by all stakeholders including pan-African institutions, RegionalEconomic Communities, national governments, national andregional parliaments, private sector, civil society organizations, socialand economic interest groups and Africa’s development partners.176 Part Three