New Partnership for Africa's Development NEPAD

EENI- School of International Business

Subject (Course): The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD). Syllabus:

1. Introduction to the NEPAD (New Partnership for Africa's Development).
2. Governance Structures of the New Partnership for Africa's Development.
3. NEPAD Secretariat
4. NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency
5. Strategic Plan 2014-2017
6. Thematic Areas of the NEPAD
7. Agriculture and Food Security
        - Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme
8. Regional Integration and Infrastructure
        - African Union/NEPAD African Action Plan 2010-2015
9. Transport
   - Trans-African Highways Networks
     - Lobito Corridor
10. Energy
11. Intra-African trade
12. Other areas: gender, information and communication technologies, the private sector, finance
13. Capacity Development Initiative
14. Economic and Corporate Governance (NEPAD)
15. African Peer review mechanism.
    - Democracy and political governance
    - Economic governance
    - Corporate governance
    - Socio-economic development
16. NEPAD and the African Regional Economic Communities.

Objectives of the subject “New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD)” are to:

1. Understand the purposes and thematic areas of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) of the African Union
2. Know the strategic plan 2014-2017 of NEPAD
3. Explore the NEPAD programs
4. Analyse the role of NEPAD in relation to trade between African countries, African Value Chains, transport in Africa, and the African integration
5. Know the four pillars of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP)
6. Understand the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM).
7. Understand the relationship between Regional Economic Communities and NEPAD

Sample of the subject - New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD):

Related topics:

1. Economic Transformation of Africa
2. African Continental Free-Trade Area
3. African Value Chains

Subject Description: New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD).

The New Partnership for Africa's Development (African Union) is intended to address the actual defiance facing African countries. Topics managed by NEPAD are incrementing poverty levels, underdevelopment, or marginalisation of Africa.

For this reason, the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) proposes a radical intervention, guided by African leaders, to develop a new Vision that would guarantee Renewal of Africa.

The objectives of New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) are to:

1. Eradicate poverty
2. Put African countries on a way of sustainable economic growth and development
3. Halt the marginalisation of Africa in Globalisation process and improve its economic integration into the regional and global economy
4. Accelerate the empowerment of women

The Principles of New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD):

1. Good governance as a basic requisite for peace, security, and sustainable development
2. Ownership and Leadership of Africa, deep participation by all segments of African society
3. Attaching the development of Africa on its resources and African people
4. Regional Partnership between African peoples
5. Acceleration of regional and African Integration
6. Develop the competitiveness of economies in Africa
7. Creating a new international partnership that changes the unequal relationship between Africa and the developed world
8. Assuring that all Partnerships with NEPAD (New Partnership for Africa's Development) are linked to the Millennium Development Goals.

Member countries of New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) are Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, the Central African Republic, the Comoros, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, the Arab Republic of Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, the Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea Conakry, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Uganda, Rwanda, Western Sahara, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Chad, Togo, Tunisia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) belongs to the African Civilisation.

The African peer review mechanism is a reciprocally agreed instrument voluntarily acceded to by the member economies of the African Union as an African self-monitoring mechanism.

The African Peer review mechanism:

Selected African Regional Economic Communities and partner institutions are also official members of the HSGIC. In this regard, Heads of the eight African Union recognised Regional Economic Communities (Economic Community of West African States, Economic Community of Central African States, East African Community, the Community of Sahel-Saharan States, the Southern Africa Development Community, the Arab Maghreb Union, the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa and Intergovernmental Authority on Development), and the African Development Bank, UNDP, the United Nations Office of Special Adviser on Africa as well as the Un Economic Commission for Africa, also participate in the Summits of the Implementation Committee.

Hajia Bola Shagaya (Nigeria) is a member of the NEPAD Business Group

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (Liberia) is the Chairperson of the African Peer Review Mechanism (NEPAD):