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30 A Decade of NEPAD: Deepening African Private Sector and Civil Society Ownership and Partnership Initially, the BAA was launched with the support of six corporate sponsors who were part of the “Oversight Group” (the decision making body of BAA): Anglo American, De Beers, GlaxoSmithKline, Royal Dutch Shell, SABMiller and Unilever. The Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF) was and continues to be the largest sponsor of BAA – providing in-kind support in the form of staff time and the use of their office facilities. IBLF also has a seat on the Oversight Group. The UK Government was a sponsor from BAA’s inception, providing financial support from DfID and in-kind staff support from the Joint International Unit of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and from the Department for Education and Skills (DfES). These departments were also represented on the Oversight Group. To date, over 150 business, business organizations, multilateral and bilateral donors, government departments, NGOs and academics have joined this effort. 80% are from the business sector – from small businesses to large multinational corporations, from national chambers of commerce to international business organisations. The current sponsors and Oversight Group members of BAA are: Anglo American, British American Tobacco, Coca- Cola Africa, De Beers, DFID, Diageo, IBLF, Merck & Co, Pfizer, Royal Dutch Shell, SABMiller, Unilever and Visa The three focus areas of the organisation are: to positively influence policies needed for growth and poverty reduction, to promote a more balanced view of Africa, and to develop and showcase good business practice. The last major initiative to come out of the 2005 G8 Summit was the creation of the Infrastructure Consortium for Africa (ICA). The inaugural meeting of ICA took place in London in October 2005 and was attended by a number of multilateral and bilateral aid donors and leading African organisations involved in African infrastructure development 38 . 38 www.icafrica.org France France is another G8 member that has an extensive foreign donor presence in Africa. In fact in 2008, after the U.S., Germany and Great Britain, France was the fourth largest development aid donor in the world. The ICA’s role is to help improve the lives and economic well-being of Africa’s people by encouraging, supporting and promoting increased investment in infrastructure in Africa, from both public and private sources. The ICA acts as a catalyst – enhancing, accelerating and precipitating the development of Africa’s infrastructure. The ICA’s sectoral work covers water, energy, transport and ICT. The ICA also works to help remove some of the technical and policy challenges and barriers to building more infrastructure on the continent and the organization strives to better co-ordinate the activities of its members and to leverage other significant sources of infrastructure finance, such as those provided by Chinese, Indian and Arab partners. The ICA is not a financing agency but it acts as a platform to catalyze donor and private sector financing of infrastructure projects and progammes in Africa. Current ICA members include the G8 countries, the World Bank Group, the African Development Bank Group, European Commission, European Investment Bank and the Development Bank of Southern Africa. The ICA is supported by a small secretariat, which is hosted by the African Development Bank in Tunis, Tunisia. The secretariat is funded by voluntary contributions from some ICA members and is staffed by a combination of permanent staff from the African Development Bank and experts who have been seconded by various ICA member countries. Lastly, in support of the development of Africa’s agricultural capacity and food security, the UK has been a major supporter of both the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) 39 and the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) 40 . 39 www.agra-alliance.org 40 www.nepad-caadp.net In support of regional infrastructure development and the NEPAD infrastructure programme specifically, Agence Francaise de Developpement (AFD) partnered with the Development Bank of South Africa in 2004 and established
a technical and project preparation grant assistance programme, the “Project Preparation Facility”, that can allocate up to US$300,000 for project assessment studies. 41 Regional projects that have received support through this initiative include the East Africa Submarine Cable Project, the Zambia-Tanzania-Kenya Inter-connector, and the Walvis Bay Port development study. 41 The Contribution of the Private Sector to the Implementation of the New Partnerships for Africa’s Development, OSSA, October 2006, p. 34 Japan Japan, the world’s third largest economy, established the Tokyo International Conference on African Development 42 in the 1990s to raise the profile of the development needs of Africa and to identify solutions and mobilize resources for the continent’s economic growth. TICAD has become a major global framework for Asia and Africa to collaborate in promoting Africa’s development. The first Tokyo Conference was held in 1993 and ushered in a continuing process of support for Africa and consensusbuilding around African development priorities. That process was bolstered with a second Tokyo conference in 1998. The third Tokyo Conference (TICAD III) was held in 2003 and marked TICAD’s tenth anniversary. The fourth convening of TICAD was held in May 2008 just ahead of Japan’s hosting of the G8 Summit the following July. The tenth anniversary session in 2003 was aimed at ensuring that regional priorities were fully addressed in harmony with the approach of Africa’s then new platform for recovery — the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD). TICAD’s emphasis has also been placed upon achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, as well as on fostering opportunities for Asian-African co-operation, the need to address damaging conflicts, and the need to consolidate peace and good governance in Africa. TICAD has also focused on the facilitation of the full involvement of the private sector and civil society in the continent’s future. 42 Sudarkasa, M, African Business Handbook, Africa Business Group, 2007, p. 45 3. Public Sector Support for NEPAD A Decade of NEPAD In further support of NEPAD, in 2006, the AFD signed a grant agreement with the NEPAD e-Africa Commission in Pretoria, South Africa through the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA), to support NEPAD’s Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Broadband Infrastructure Programme. In the agreement, AFD pledged to a provide 850,000 Euros to the NEPAD e-Africa Commission to support the development of a rationalised terrestrial broadband ICT network for Central, Western and Northern Africa. TICAD enjoys the support of a number co-organizers — the Government of Japan, the United Nations, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Global Coalition for Africa and the World Bank. Its broad range of stakeholders includes all 53 African countries, and Africa’s development partners – including Asian countries, donor countries, international agencies, and civil society organizations. In 2003, the TICAD Civil Society Forum was established to ensure that each TICAD convening includes the voice of civil society. Significant results have already flowed from the Asian- African co-operation that TICAD has spearheaded. These include a new variety of rice for Africa (NERICA) and trans-continental business forums which have generated substantial commercial prospects TICAD’s guiding principles of African ownership and international partnerships are entrenched in NEPAD values and principles. Both TICAD and NEPAD place identical obligations on African countries and its development partners. The Japanese Government has continuously reaffirmed its commitment to support NEPAD through the TICAD process. Of the eight NEPAD Programme of Action areas, Japan has identified the following four as immediate priority areas: ӹ Infrastructure ӹ Agriculture ӹ Market Access (trade and investment promotion, as well as private sector development), and ӹ Human Resources Development In support of African private sector development and in response to the many donor pledges made at the Gleaneagles 31
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