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Meeting Report: Experts Group Meeting on Implementation of NEPAD
and Ten-Year Capacity Building Programme for the African Union
him Mayaki, Chief Executive Officer, NEPAD Agency and representatives
of COMESA Secretary-General and Minister of State for Planning and Development
of Côte d’Ivoire.
32. Participation was drawn from representatives of NEPAD national
and regional structures, the NEPAD Agency, AUC, RECs, UN Agencies, the
private sector and partner institutions.
33. The key outcomes of the regional dialogue were as follows:
i. Expanding and strengthening the ownership base and buy-in
for NEPAD implementation through an all-inclusive process at
national and regional level;
ii. Proposed set-up of an all-inclusive and regular consultative forum
to be convened on an annual basis;
iii. Institutionalizing the sharing of experiences and lessons
learned in coordinating NEPAD;
iv. Urgent need to support the implementation capacity of NEPAD
structures and Focal Points to ensure effective coordination of
the priority regional programmes and projects for accelerated
implementation;
v. Guidelines on roles and responsibilities for NEPAD Focal Points
along with an Action Plan to be developed by the NEPAD Agency
with the support of ECA and other partner institutions;
vi. Underscoring the importance of mainstreaming NEPAD into
national and regional development plans and policies as critical
to the implementation of the NEPAD agenda; and
vii. NEPAD success stories should be benchmarked, well documented
and effectively communicated.
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