African Peer Review Mechanism: Strengthening Governance Systems - Amos Sawyer: In 2003 the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), the continental development plan, initiated the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM). Since then 30 countries have joined the voluntary arrangement. How well has this process been working, and what lies ahead? A member of the APRM's Panel of Eminent Persons, Amos Sawyer ― who was Liberia's interim president in 1990–94 and currently chairs that country's Governance Commission ― sheds more light on the initiative. Read more...

Nigeria: NEPAD, French Agency Sign ICT Development Grant: The New Partnership for Africa Development (NEPAD) has signed a Grant Facility Agreement (GFA) with the French Development Agency (AFD), towards investing in the development of an Information, Communication Technology (ICT) backbone. Read more...

Commission for Social Development Adopts Resolution on NEPAD: 10 February 2012 - The 50th session of the Commission for Social Development (CSocD), which focused on the theme “Poverty Eradication,” concluded with the adoption of seven resolutions, including on the need to mainstream disability in the development agenda and the social dimensions of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD). The 50th session of the Commission convened from 1-10 February 2012 at UN Headquarters in New York, US. The resolution on disability emphasizes the need to promote the linkages between disability and global development priorities, including poverty reduction and sustainable development. Read more...

Africa’s Annual Growth Rate Should Be in Double Digits – Ethiopian Economist: Ambassador Newai Gebreab, Chief Economic Adviser to the Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, is urging African countries to set very high economic growth targets for themselves in order to get out of poverty. The continent’s annual growth is said to be at five to six percent. Read more...

NEPAD Agency Urges Africa to Set High Growth Targets: African countries must set very high economic growth targets for themselves in order to get out of poverty, a Senior Adviser to Ethiopia’s Prime Minister said in Addis Ababa today. The continent cannot depend on the rest of the world to escape being the world’s poorest continent, Mr. Newai Gebread, a Senior Chief Economist in the Office of the Ethiopian Prime Minister, said at a steering committee meeting of the NEPAD Agency over which he presided today. Read more...

NEPAD Has Improved Africans' Lives: ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has said the New Initiative for the Development of Africa (NEPAD) has scored a lot of successes through its various programmes which have touched many lives in Africa. Prime Minister Zenawi said NEPAD, working with its partners, has managed to undertake projects which have since yielded results in the areas of science, technology, agriculture and infrastructure. Read more...

NEPAD to Consolidate Collaboration with Countries in 2012: The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) is set to consolidate collaboration with African countries and regional economic communities this year, in order to build on the achievements recorded in 2011, Chief Executive Officer Ibrahim Mayaki said. In a statement made available to PANA here Thursday, Dr. Mayaki said, during the steering committee meeting of the NEPAD Agency in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, that to achieve the goal, the Agency would renew and actively engage in dialogue with NEPAD national offices and focal points in various African countries. Read more...

NEPAD Adds Value to Africa's Farming Sector: Glenn Denning is director of the Centre on Globalization and Sustainable Development at Columbia University's Earth Institute in New York, and was previously director of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Centre in Nairobi, Kenya. He talks to Africa Renewal about the role of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) in strengthening the continent's agricultural potential. Read more...

Eighteenth African Union Summit to Hold on the Theme: “Boosting Intra-African Trade”: ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, January 11, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- The 18th Ordinary Session of the Summit of the African Union (AU) is scheduled to take place from 23 to 30 January 2012 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Holding under the theme: “Boosting Intra-African Trade”, the summit will officially kick off on Monday 23 January 2012, with the 23rd Ordinary Session of the Permanent Representatives Committee (PRC). Read more...

NEPAD on the Ground: Over the past 10 years, the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) has launched a number of bold and innovative programmes. In some instances the plan is already scoring notable yet underreported gains. Africa Renewal highlights NEPAD’s impact in five key areas. Read more...

Nigeria: House Pledges to Pass NEPAD Law: The House Committee on Cooperation & Integration in Africa is working on the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) enabling act and will fast track the processes of its passage into law, the Committee Chairman Abubakar Momoh, has said. Speaking when members of the committee visited NEPAD on oversight function, the chairman said the bill has already been forwarded and approved by the speaker, adding that it will soon be read on floor of the House for second reading. Read more...

We Must Make Sacrifices to Transform Nigeria — FG: The Federal Government, on Thursday, asked leaders at various levels of governance in the country to be ready to make sacrifices in the task of the national transformation process. Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, made this call in Abuja while declaring open the meeting of the National Council on African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) for validation of the second progress report on the implementation of the National Programme of Action (NPoA). Read more...

(Interview) Africa: Fighting That Negative Image: In July 2001, African leaders adopted the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), the road map for the continent's development. Since its adoption a decade ago, how much has the plan achieved? In a frank, plain-talking interview, Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, CEO of the NEPAD and head of Africa's partnership initiative, says a lot has been achieved, contrary to what most western media claim. Read more...

Nigeria: NEPAD Decries Poor Funding of Programmes: Abuja — The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) Nigeria at the weekend described poor funding of its programmes and the lack of an enabling laws as major challenges facing the establishment in its partnership with local and international stakeholders. Read more...

Africa: 'Peer Review' and Civil Society Keep African Leaders on Their Toes: Since the APRM's formation, 30 African countries have joined the voluntary arrangement. Members have their governance practices reviewed through national consultations and discussions with APRM review panels and African heads of state. How well has this process been working, and what lies ahead? In this exclusive, full-length interview, Mr. Sawyer responds to Africa Renewal's managing editor, Ernest Harsch. Read more...

Nigeria: State Coordinators Want More Funding for NEPAD Nigeria: State Coordinators of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) Nigeria have said that they appreciate the current efforts of the government in financing NEPAD but want increased funding for effective mainstreaming of the partnership's programmes at all levels of government. Read more...

NEPAD’ll Focus on Food Security, Agriculture - Jonathan’s Aide: The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) would  facilitate implementation of the food security and agriculture development programme in all sub-regions, the Special Adviser to the President on NEPAD, Ambassador Tunji Olagunju, has said. Read more...

NEPAD Boss Identifies Parliamentarians as Key to Regional Integration [GhanaNewsAgency.org]: Accra, May 16, GNA - Dr. Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, Chief Executive Officer of the NEPAD Agency, has expressed his willingness and commitment to work closely with members of the Pan African Parliament (PAP) to support PAP's activities. Read more...

Why Amaechi Was Re-Elected, by Aide [The Nation]: Accountability, good governance and development were yesterday listed as the reasons for the re-election of Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi. His Special Assistant and Coordinator of the New Partnership for Africa’sDevelopment (NEPAD), Dr. Tex Wariboko, told reporters in Abuja that the governor gained the people’s trust after giving them a new lease of life. Read more...

NEPAD, FAO Stakeholders Gather in South Africa to Discuss on Fisheries, Aquaculture: The New Economic Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) and the Food and Agricultural Development (FAO) is organization a stakeholder’s consultation that will zero in on the governance of fisheries and aquaculture. Read more...

Why Foreign Credit Agencies Rate Amaechi High [THISDAY Live]: Special Assistant to the Rivers State Governor and state coordinator of the New Partnership for Africa's Development, Dr. Tex Wariboko,  has said Governor Rotimi Amaechi's commitment to good governance was the reason why he has been scored high by world renowned credit rating agencies. Read more...

New Partnership for Africa’s Development Group to Organize Capacity Building Retreat [AfriqueJet.com]: Lagos, Nigeria - The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) Business Group-Nigeria is to organize a capacity building retreat in 3 May in Lagos, the commercial nerve centre of Nigeria, according to the organizers. The theme for the one-day retreat is, ”Deepening Interpretative Understanding of New Partnership for Africa’s Development for Business Opportunities." The President of African Business Roundtable and Chairman of NEPAD Business Group Africa, Bamanga Tukur, will declare open the retreat. Ejeviome Eleho Otobo, Director And Deputy Head of the Peace Building Support Office (PBSO) of the United Nations in New York will moderate the event. Read more...

Amaechi Is Committed to Good Governance, Says Wariboko [National Mirror]: Special Assistant to the Rivers State Governor and State Coordinator of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), Dr. Tex Wariboko has said that Governor Rotimi Amaechi’s commitment to good governance is second to none among his counterparts. Wariboko stated in an interview that Governor Amaechi has been able to run a responsible and responsive government in Rivers State because of the legal frameworks and mechanisms that he put in place, citing the Procurement and the Fiscal Responsibility Bills that he caused the State Legislature to pass into law. Read more...

NEPAD Takes Major Steps to Empower African Women: During the 6th Meeting of the “African and Spanish Women Network for a Better World” held in Windhoek, Namibia, on Saturday, April 9 2011, the NEPAD Agency and the Government of the Kingdom of Spain launched the second call of proposals for the NEPAD/Spanish Fund for the Empowerment of Women. Read more...

Honour Commitment on CAADP, Stakeholders Tell FG: Abuja — Action Aid Nigeria (AAN), an associate of the Action Aid International (AAI), a right-based organisation that is committed to poverty eradication, recently in Abuja began a crucial process of getting the Federal Government to respect its pledge to implement the Comprehensive Africa Agricultural Development Programme (CAADP). CAADP is an agricultural programme of the African Union's New Partnership for Africa's Development (AU/NEPAD), which is geared towards improving food security, nutrition, as well as increasing incomes in Africa's largely farming based economies. Read more...

Future NEPAD-Africa Indigenous Trade Fair Will Generate Interest: Abuja - Alhaji Yayale Ahmed, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), has expressed the hope that the NEPAD-Africa Trade Fair of Indigenous Products will soon generate more interest. Read more...

Kenya Gets NEPAD Backing on Bio Safety: NAGOYA, Japan, Oct 12 - Kenya can look forward to logistical and technological support from the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) in its quest to develop and commercialise bio-safety technology. Betty Kiplagat, a Program officer in charge of Legal and Policy at the African Union Organisation said that NEPAD hails Kenya's willingness to promote science and technology in combating social and economic problems plaguing its people. Read more...

NEPAD Plans Summit On Poverty: ABUJA- The African Union–NEPAD meeting, scheduled to hold in Nigeria in the first quarter of 2011, will focus on efforts to reduce poverty on the continent, an official said. Read more...

Presidency Appoints Adenuga NEPAD Fair Patron: The Presidency has appointed Globacom Chairman, Dr. Mike Adenuga Jr. as Patron of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) Trade Fair of Indigenous Products and Services. Read more...

Nigeria to Host AU-NEPAD Meeting: Nigeria is to host the first AU-New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) meeting on external debt management in the first quarter of 2011, Mr Goodie Ibru, has said. Ibru, the Chairman of NEPAD Business Group Nigeria, disclosed this when he paid a courtesy visit on the Director-General, Debt Management Office (DMO), Dr Abraham Nwankwo. Read more...

NEPAD Holds Fair in Abuja: The maiden edition of the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) trade fair of indigenous products and services is set to take place in Abuja by October, the Special Assistant to the President on NEPAD has said. Ambassador Tunji Olagunju said this yesterday in Abuja at an interactive session with Ambassadors/High Commissioners of African countries on the forthcoming trade fair. Read more...

NEPAD Is Making Progress - Presidential Aide: Special Adviser to the President on the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), Mr Tunji Olagunju, has come in defence of the programme against the comments of the Rivers State governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi. Olagunju, who joined the deliberation of state coordinators of the programme in Port Harcourt on Friday, said he had seen NEPAD make remarkable progress. Read more...

Africa Urged to Entrench NEPAD in Law: African governments have been asked to entrench the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) in their laws.Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo said there was nothing on the ground to officially support NEPAD. Chief Obasanjo, who is one of the programme founders, called for faster integration of NEPAD with the African Union (AU), saying the current relationship was affecting its operation. Read more...