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Goals and weaknesses of NEPADA Summary of De Waal
NEPAD (New Partnership for Africa’s Development) emerged from three parallel
initiatives launched in 2000-2001. These initiatives was the Millennium Partnership of
Africa’s Recovery Programme (MAP) inspired by South Africa’s former President
Thabo Mbeki together with President Obasanjo of Nigeria and President Bouteflika
of Algeria to investigate how Africa can overcome its debt crisis.
These initiatives where:
1) The African Renaissance promoted by President Mbeki of South Africa which
promoted economic development as well as cultural, social and political
regeneration.
2) OMEGA Plan of President Wade of Senegal which focussed on regional
infrastructural and educational projects in other words the blueprints for investment
in the form of infrastructure development
3) Compact for African Recovery was initiated by the United Nations Economic
Commission for Africa
These initiatives were merged and were known as New African Initiative and were
managed by 15 heads of state of Africa. In 2001 it was renamed to NEPAD and
established its secretariat in South Africa. Although the relationship between NEPAD
and the AOU/African Union is important it is still unclear.
The NEPAD implementation committee has total discretion and only reports to the
AU Summit, while the AU Secretariat is represented at the lower level of NEPAD?s
Steering Committee. In other words there is no AU control and veto over NEPAD.
The most politically sensitive element of NEPAD is the discrimination among African
Countries.
A partnership with NEPAD is subject to certain standards of governance and
economic management, while membership to the African Union has no criteria
except the sharing of the African continent.
Weaknesses of NEPAD:
1) Donors have different objectives and the world’s biggest aid donors (European
Union; Japan and the United States) are the slowest to embrace the principle of
enhanced partnership.
2) The biggest down- fall of NEPAD is the also the social, economic and governance
impact of HIV/AIDS and will be necessary to move this to the head of NEPAD
agenda
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