NEPAD: A new partnership? 21 February 2003 Netherlands Congress Centre, Van Ruysdaelzaal 1&2, The Hague 09h30 – 17h30 - registration from 08h30 - Conference outline Registration form

background: NEPAD document 60p. Download from this site: PDF or txt, 60p. introduction to Nepad: The New Partnership for Africa's Development: an initial commentary (PDF) Ravi Kanbur (Cornell University, Dec 2001, 14p.) civil society comments Un-blurring the Vision: an assessment of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development South African Council of Churches (Johannesburg, June 2002, 17p.) Civil society resolution Delegates from various civil society formation, including rural communities, urban communities, youth, women, First Nations Indigenous people, NGOs, provinces and others (Johannesburg, May 4, 2002, 4p.) Mozambique civil society Statement A summary of opinion from a workshop on NEPAD among NGOs, government officials, academics and members of civil society in Mozambique. (Project Turning Arms into Ploughshares, (TAE), April 16-17, 2002) Malawi civil society comments Members from the Civil Society in Malawi (27 February 2002) general analyses and critical comments Governing the African development process: the challenge of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) (PDF) Adebayo O. Olukoshi, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, Dakar (Copenhagen, Sep 2002, 32p.) Getting real about democracy in Africa: Nepad and the challenge of good governance Lawrence Schlemmer (Johannesburg: Helen Suzman Foundation, Sep 2002, 45p.) The New partnership for Africa's development (NEPAD) - African perspectives Henning Melber, Richard Cornwel, Jephthah Gathaka and Smokin Wanjala (Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2002, 35p.) Prospects for African development in light of Nepad Sally Matthews and Hussein Solomon (Pretoria: Africa Institute, 2002, 4p.) Nepad: Breaking or Shining the Chains of Global Apartheid? Patrick Bond (Foreign Policy in Focus, March 2002, 16p.)

Links and further reading: Nepad secretariat official site, contains basic documents allAfrica.com newsportal on Nepad Nepad: African initiative, new partnership? (PDF) International Peace Academy workshop report (New York, July 2002) From the Lagos Plan of Action to the New Partnership for African Development and from the final act of Lagos to the constitutive act: wither Africa? (PDF) Adebayo Adedeji (Nairobi, April 2002, 17p.) Africa and the G8: NEPAD Documents from various sources presenting, promoting, critiquing or opposing the NEPAD proposal: Official NEPAD text, African NGO statements, other NGO statements, trade union statements, and government, UN and business statements (AfricaFiles, Toronto, Canada) NEPAD Forum Events, links and resources to discussion documents, reviews and key texts (Heinrich Böll Foundation, Johannesburg, South Africa) Nepad focus Alternative Information and Development Centre, Cape Town, South Africa

Speakers: Priscilla Jana, South African Ambassador. Mrs Claire Mandouze, Directorate-General for Development of the European Union Desk. Mr Viarato Tamele, Economic Justice Coalition (EJC), Mozambique. Ms Venitia Govender, Human Rights Committee, South Africa. Other discussants: Mr Greyson Koyi, Civil Servants Union of Zambia. Mr Manuel J. Paulo, British-Angola Forum, United Kingdom Mr M.P. Giyose, Jubilee South Africa

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