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NEPAD as a Framework for
Sustainable Development in Africa
An ECA presentation at the
Workshop on Institutional and Strategic
Frameworks for Sustainable Development
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
8 March 2011
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Outline
• Background
• NEPAD Priority Areas and Frameworks
• Sustainable Development of NEPAD as a
Programme
• Sustainable Development of the NEPAD
Infrastructure Programme
• Conclusions and Way Forward
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Background
NEPAD
• Adopted as socio-economic development framework in
2001
• Commitment by African leaders to pursue new socioeconomic transformation approaches
• Seeks to eradicate poverty, place African countries on path
of sustainable growth & development
• Following 2010 AU Decision, NEPAD now integrated into AU
structure and processes
• NEPAD Secretariat transformed to NPCA (NEPAD Agency)
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NEPAD Principles
• Good governance (APRM)
• African ownership and leadership (High level
governing mechanism)
• Broad participation by all sectors of society
• Anchoring development on Africa’s resources and
resourcefulness of its people
• Partnerships
• Accelerating regional integration
• Linking all partnerships with MDGs and IADGs
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NEPAD Priority Areas
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Agriculture and food security
Education and training
Environment and tourism
Infrastructure
Health
Trade and Market Access
Science and Technology
Governance
Gender and Civil Society
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Major NEPAD
Frameworks/Programmes
• CAADP
• African Science and Technology
Consolidated Action Plan
• Action Plan for Environment Initiative
• Infrastructure Short Term Action Plan
(STAP); PIDA, AU/NEPAD African Action
Plan
• Framework for Water and Energy
• Capacity Development Strategic
Framework
• Frameworks on Education, Health and ICT
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NPCA Strategic Framework/
Thematic Areas
• Agriculture and Food Security
• Climate Change and Natural Resources
Management
• Regional Integration and Infrastructure
• Human Development
• Economic and Cooperate Governance
• Crosscutting Issues (Capacity
Development, Gender)
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What is Sustainable Development?
• Adherence to the following principles
 Country ownership and commitment
 Integrated economic, social and environmental
objectives across sectors, territories and
generations
 Broad participation and effective partnerships
 Develop capacity and enabling environment
 Focus
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outcomes
implementation
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Overall Sustainability of NEPAD Programme
• African led and owned (initiated by Heads of State of
Nigeria, Senegal, Egypt and Algeria….AU Mandate)
• Active participation of CSOs, private sector, although with
variations across priority areas
• Strong partnerships (UN system; donor community – G8;
African sub-regional and continental organisations; SouthSouth cooperation)
• Human resources development, including reversing brain
drain is one of the priority areas
• Overall, NEPAD was designed as a sustainable programme
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NEPAD Infrastructure
Programme
• Objectives
 Improve access, affordability, reliability of
infrastructure
 Enhance regional cooperation and trade
• Elements of Infrastructure Programme
 STAP established in 2002 (facilitation, capacity
building, physical and capital projects, studies)
 AU/NEPAD African Action Plan (2010-2015):
contains projects in all NEPAD priority areas
including infrastructure
 PIDA (aims at developing regional and
continental
infrastructure
policies,
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programmes, implementation strategies)
Country Ownership and
Commitment (attributes)
• Country driven; multi-stakeholder; strong
political commitment
• Sound leadership and good governance
• Based on long-term shared strategic vision
• Strong institutional leadership and technical
capacity for coordination
• Institutions and people at local level as strong
driving force
• Ensuring continuity of strategy development
and implementation
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Country Ownership and
Commitment (assessment)
• Countries/RECs involved in selection of
projects
• Champions (Heads of State) identified for
selected projects
• Low implementation questions political
commitment
• Capacity for coordination not very strong
• Institutions and people at local level have
not generally acted as strong driving force
(low awareness)
• Overall mixed result
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Integrated Socio-Economic Objectives
Across Sectors, Territories (attributes)
• Comprehensive, well integrated strategy
process
• Linking short to medium and long term
• Linking local, national and regional
priorities
• Consensus building and transparent tradeoffs
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Integrated Socio-Economic Objectives
Across Sectors, Territories (assessment)
• Comprehensive and well integrated
• Linked to poverty reduction
(accessibility, affordability); trade
issues, etc
• STAP feeds into PIDA (linking short
and long term)
• Clear and transparent criteria for
selecting projects
• Good overall performance
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Broad Participation and Effective
Partnerships (attributes)
• Broad public participation including
CSOs; private sector in decision
making
• Communication and wide information
dissemination
• Promoting and building partnerships,
including with external organisations
• Governments to create enabling
environment for participation
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Broad Participation and Effective
Partnerships (assessment)
• Efforts to involve the private sector (NEPAD
Foundation; NEPAD Business Round Table,
etc)
• UN system support (RCM-Africa, UN
Resolutions; Section 11; OSAA, ECA, DPI)
• Infrastructure Consortium for Africa
• More effort needed to communicate NEPAD
• Overall performance is mixed
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Develop Capacity and Enabling
Environment (attributes)
• Strong human and institutional
capacity
• Building on existing knowledge and
expertise; optimising local skills and
capacity both within and outside
government
• Giving recognition to local knowledge
and institutions
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Develop Capacity and Enabling
Environment (assessment)
• NEPAD Infrastructure Project
Preparatory Facility (IPPF)
• Capacity of national and regional
institutions still generally weak
• Strategic Capacity Development
Framework
• Ten-Year Capacity Building Programme
for the AU
• Overall performance not very good
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Focus on Outcomes and Means
of Implementation (attributes)
• Aiming to achieve results
• Build on existing strategies , policies
and processes
• Setting realistic but flexible targets
• Building coherence between budget
and priorities
• Mechanisms for monitoring, evaluating,
follow-up, etc.
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Focus on Outcomes and Means
of Implementation (assessment)
• No clear targets and objective performance
monitoring plan developed for STAP
• AU/NEPAD African Action Plan has
perfomance indicators, resource
requirements, tracking mechanism, identified
key actors
• PIDA builds on STAP and the African Action
Plan
• Overall, focus on results is improving but
monitoring and evaluation has been weak
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Lessons learned and
the way forward
• Analysis
of
NEPAD
Infrastructure
Programme presents a mixed picture in
terms of sustainability
• In particular, ownership at national level;
focus on results; and monitoring and
evaluation have to be improved
• Identification of Champions is a welcome
development and should be extended to
more projects
• Sustained
effort
is
needed
in
communicating the achievement of the
Programme
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THANK YOU
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