Origin of NEPAD

The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) is a vision and strategic framework for Africa’s Renewal. The framework emanates from a mandate given to the five initiating Heads of State (Algeria, Egypt, Nigeria, Senegal and South Africa) by the Organization of African Unity (OAU) to develop an integrated socio-economic development framework for Africa.  The 37th Summit of the OAU in July 2001 formally adopted the strategic framework document.

NEPAD is designed to address the current challenges facing the African continent. Issues, such as escalating poverty levels, underdevelopment and the continued marginalization of Africa, needed a new radical intervention, spearheaded by African leaders, to develop a new vision that would guarantee African renewal. [Read More...]

23rd May 2010  –28th May 2010

A delegation from the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) offices in Kenya is in South Africa for a series of engagements concerning the implementation of the NEPAD programme and related joint work programmes. [Read More..]

10th May 2010 - 16th May 2010 NEPAD Kenya Staff Members visit Ghana and Nigeria for experience sharing.

With recent developments in the NEPAD continental framework in which the African Union (AU) Assembly of Heads of State and Government took the decision to transform the NEPAD Continental Secretariat into NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency has given the impetus, the need for appropriate legal and institutional frameworks for implementation of NEPAD at country and regional levels.

African Peer Review Mechanis Report ( June 2006 - June 2008)

African Peer Review Mechanism Progress Report Popular Version (June 2006 - June 2008)

African Peer Review Mechanism UPDATE (July 2008 - January 2009)

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