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6 A Decade of NEPAD: Deepening African Private Sector and Civil Society Ownership and Partnership The OMEGA Plan The OMEGA Plan was developed by President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal and first presented at the Franco-Africa Summit in Yaounde, Cameroon in January 2001. It was also presented at the OAU Extraordinary Summit in Sirte in March 2001. The three original MAP Presidents became aware of the Omega Plan for the first time at the World Economic Forum in Davos on 30 January 2001. The OMEGA Plan was premised on four key pillars: a) the building of infrastructure- including information and communication technologies (ICT), b) education and human resource development, c) health and d) agriculture. The New Global Compact for Africa’s Renewal At the 8th Session of the African Ministers of Finance in Addis Ababa in November 2000, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa, Mr KY Amoako, was tasked with developing a Compact for Africa’s Renewal. The document that Mr. Amoako produced was presented and discussed at a Conference of African Ministers of Finance in Algiers, Algeria from 8 to 10 May 2001. The six chapter “New Global Compact with Africa” set forth a series of strategies and recommendations for implementing MAP. The Integration Process Between April and June 2001, a number of key strategy meetings were held in Abuja, Nigeria; Johannesburg, South Africa; Cairo, Egypt; and Dakar, Senegal on the integration of the three plans. Finally, a meeting of the five core Steering Committee countries (South Africa, Nigeria, Algeria, Senegal and Egypt) was held in Pretoria, South Africa on 2 and 3 July 2001. The OAU and UNECA were also invited and the UNECA Executive Secretary himself attended. MAP Final Draft 3 (b) was presented to the meeting. Following much vigorous debate, the meeting was successful in finalising a common, coordinated and integrated document for presentation to the OAU Summit in Lusaka, Zambia (9-11 July). The document, entitled A New African Initiative: Merger of the Millennium Partnership for the African Recovery Programme and the Omega Plan (NAI) was unanimously approved by the members of the Steering Committee. The Steering Committee formally presented the consolidated initiative to the five initiating During the 5th Extraordinary Summit of the OAU held in Sirte, Libya from 1 to 2 March 2001, President Wade of Senegal presented the OMEGA Plan and President Obasanjo also made a presentation on the MAP. The work being done by the four Presidents (Presidents Mbeki, Obasanjo, Bouteflika and Wade) was endorsed and it was decided that every effort should be made to integrate the two initiatives as they were both being pursued for the growth and development of Africa. The Conference in Algiers represented the first step in carrying forward the mandate for integration given by the Extraordinary Summit in Sirte in March 2001. In addition to the ECA Compact, MAP and the OMEGA Plan were also discussed and the Ministers urged the experts of the three initiatives to work together to merge and consolidate them. Presidents and their representatives in Lusaka on 9 July 2001. On 11 July 2001, the NAI was presented to the OAU Summit of Heads of State and Government in Lusaka, Zambia. It Summit enthusiastically endorsed the vision and policy framework document and it was unanimously adopted by the Summit in the form of Declaration 1 (XXXVII). The key sectoral priorities included in the document were: ӹ Peace and Security, ӹ Democracy and Good Political, Economic and Corporate governance, ӹ Health, ӹ Agriculture, ӹ Market Access, ӹ Infrastructure, ӹ Education, and ӹ Environment.
When the first Heads of State and Government Implementation Committee meeting was held on October 23, 2001 in Abuja , Nigeria, the Committee, comprising Nigeria, South Africa, Algeria, Senegal, Egypt, Mozambique, Botswana, Tunisia, Mali, Ethiopia, Mauritius, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Gabon and Cameroon finalised a name for the initiative, establishing it as The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD). The Secretariat of NEPAD was subsequently established in South Africa and hosted by the Development Bank of Southern Africa. In October 2001, NEPAD 3 was launched as an Africaowned and Africa-led socio-economic development programme and established with the near term goals of: ӹ Helping Africa become more effective in conflict prevention and the establishment of enduring peace on the continent; ӹ Helping Africa adopt and implement principles of democracy and good political economic and corporate governance, and to ensure that the protection of human rights became further entrenched in every African country; ӹ Helping to ensure that Africa develops and implements effective poverty eradication programmes and accelerates the pace of achieving set African development goals, particularly human development; ӹ Helping Africa to achieve increased levels of domestic savings, as well as investment, both domestic and foreign; ӹ Ensuring Africa’s efforts to receive increased levels of overseas development assistance are achieved and that the these funds are effectively utilised; ӹ Helping Africa to achieve the desired capacity for policy development, coordination and negotiation in the international arena, and to help ensure its beneficial engagement in the global economy, especially on trade and market access issues 3 www.nepad.org – New Partnership for Africa’s Development 2001: NEPAD in Brief 2. The Evolution of NEPAD A Decade of NEPAD ӹ Fostering accelerated regional integration and ensuring that higher levels of sustainable economic growth in Africa are achieved; ӹ Helping establish a genuine partnership between Africa and the developed countries based on mutual respect and accountability. The longer term objectives of NEPAD were: ӹ to place African countries, collectively and individually, on a path toward sustainable growth and development , ӹ to halt Africa’s marginalisation in an ever globalising world, ӹ to eradicate poverty on the continent, ӹ to accelerate the empowerment of women, and ӹ to enhance the continent’s full and beneficial integration into the world economy. NEPAD’s principles encouraged: ӹ Acceleration of regional and continental integration ӹ African ownership and leadership, as well as broad and deep participation by all sectors of society ӹ Anchoring the development of Africa on its resources and the resourcefulness of its people ӹ Building the competitiveness of African countries and the continent ӹ Ensuring that all partnerships with NEPAD are linked to the Millennium Development Goals and other agreed development goals and targets ӹ Forging a new international partnership that changes the unequal relationship between Africa and the developed world ӹ Good governance as a basic requirement for peace, security and sustainable political and socio-economic development, and ӹ Partnership between and amongst African peoples. NEPAD’s goals included the achievement and maintenance of an average continental gross domestic product above 7
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