The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) is a comprehensive integrated sustainable development initiative for the economic and social revival of Africa.

OUR MANDATE:
The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) is designed to address 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 Africa’s Renewal.

MISSION STATEMENT:
To help streamline developmental efforts by all stakeholders into the mainstream of the continent’s developmental objectives as stated in the NEPAD plan of action, especially in the actualization of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), to reposition the State back to its enviable position through complimenting the State Government’s giant and enviable developmental programmes and to act as the focal point of bilateral / donor agencies and developmental partners in line with NEPAD Action Plans with a common  objective of attaining sustainable development.

POLICY OBJECTIVES:
Our primary objectives are as follows:

a) to eradicate poverty;

b) to place African countries, both individually and collectively, on a path of sustainable growth and development;

c) to halt the marginalization of Africa in the globalization process and enhance its full and beneficial integration into the global economy; and

d) to accelerate the empowerment of women.