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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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