The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) : African perspectives

Abstract

At the end of February 2002 the GermannHanns Seidel Foundation held its annual consultative meeting with African counterparts from projects in nine different countries on the continent. The subject oriented workshop discussed "The New Partnership for African Development" (NEPAD) and its implications from the point of view of the participants. This Discussion Paper publishes some of the presentations to the workshop in an effort to document the current debate just initiated from different positions. It thereby aims to contribute to a process of taking the latest programmatic document from the African heads of state serious in its possible implications for the future development of the continent.

CONTENTS -- Henning Melber: The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD)– Scope and Perspectives -- From the African Renaissance to NEPAD -- Essentials of NEPAD -- Scope of NEPAD -- Impact of the African Union -- Critical Issues for NEPAD -- Jephthah Gathaka/Smokin Wanjala: Kenya and NEPAD -- Perspectives of development -- Kenyan Development Experience -- The New Partnership for Africa’s Development and What It Means to Kenya -- Kenya: The Way Forward -- Conclusion -- Richard Cornwell: The New Partnership for Africa’s Development: Last Chance for Africa? -- Henning Melber: -- What’s new in “The New Partnership for Africa’s Development”?