New Partnership for Africa's Development NEPAD

Syllabus of the Subject: New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD).

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
6. Thematic Areas of the NEPAD
7. Agriculture and Food Security
   1. Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme
8. Regional Integration and Infrastructure
   1. African Union/NEPAD African Action Plan
9. Transport
   1. Trans-African Road Network
   2. 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
    1. Democracy and political governance
    2. Economic governance
    3. Corporate governance
    4. Socio-economic development
16. The NEPAD and the African Regional Economic Communities

The 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 of the NEPAD
3. Explore the NEPAD programs
4. Analyse the role of the NEPAD in relation to the trade between the African Countries, the 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):

Hispano-African University of International Business

Related topics:

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

Description of the Subject (Online Learning): New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD).

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

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

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

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

The principles of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) are:

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

The 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, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, the 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.

African Peer review mechanism:

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):

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