GHANA: Surging enrolment presents challenges
11 October 2006, IRIN News
Churches and community centres have been turned into schools as Ghana's education system struggles to cope with record numbers of students who have enrolled for basic education since school fees were scrapped last year.
The removal of fees is part of Ghana's ongoing effort to boost enrolment and make education accessible to a larger section read more...
NEPAD - Les experts du commerce africain analysent les coûts des partenariats économiques
11 October 2006, NEPAD
Des experts du commerce africain se sont rencontrés au Caire les 18 et 19 septembre 2006, afin d'évaluer des stratégies pour la réduction des coûts de la signature d'accords de partenariat économique (APE) avec les pays européens.
Cette réunion a été organisée par l'UNECA, le PNUD, le Secrétariat du NEPAD et le Gouvernement égyptien. read more...
Evaluation mutuelle des partenaires au développement: préparations pour 2007
11 October 2006, NEPAD
Dans l’esprit de la responsabilité mutuelle associé au NEPAD, le Comité des Chefs d’Etat et de Gouvernement pour la Mise en Œuvre, ont, en 2003, chargé l’UNECA (Commission Economique des Nations-Unies pour l’Afrique), en coopération avec l’Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Economiques (OCDE), de conclure d’urgence le cadre institutionnel read more...
HSRC Pleased With Govt Response to Research Outputs
10 October 2006, BuaNews (SA Govt)
by Nozipho Dlamini
The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) says encouraging signs from government suggest their research focus with regard to projects is bearing fruit.
Giving an overview of the HSRC's progress over the last financial year, CEO Olive Shisana said their work seemed to have an impact on government policy, read more...
L'Union Africaine a accueilli le Président nigérian Olusegun Obasanjo
10 October 2006, Union Africaine
Addis-Abeba, Éthiopie - 10 octobre 2006 - Le Président nigérian, M. Olusegun Obasanjo a effectué une visite au siège de l'Union africaine à Addis-Abeba aujourd'hui où il a eu des entretiens avec les dirigeants de la Commission de l'Union africaine, avant de s'adresser aux représentants de la communauté internationale et au Corps diplomatique. M. Obasanjo read more...
Le Président Kagame lance le projet des e-Ecoles du NEPAD
au Rwanda
10 October 2006, NEPAD
Le Président du Rwanda, M. Paul Kagame (portant des lunettes) rend visite aux élèves de l’Ecole G.S. Muhura durant le lancement du Projet de Démonstration des e-Ecoles du NEPAD dans cet établissement.
M. le Président Paul Kagame a officiellement lancé au Rwanda le Projet de Démonstration des e-Ecoles le 5 octobre 2006, à l’école G.S. Muhura, read more...
EACJ Landmark Ruling will enhance the Rule of Law in the East African region
10 October 2006, Legalbrief Africa
By Don Deya
On 4th October 2006, the East African Court of Justice (EACJ) delivered its 'judgment' in the first case ever to be brought before it. Both the case, and the Court's ruling, is monumental in its implications and ramifications, and its reverberations will positively affect the rule of law in East Africa for a long time. In the read more...
The Pan-African Parliament With Legislative Powers: What Will Happen?
09 October 2006, Institute for Security Studies
ISS TODAY
When the Pan-African Parliament was launched back in 2004, much was said about the role it would play in the continental scheme of things. Indeed, Article 3 of the Protocol to the Treaty Establishing the African Economic Community Relating to Pan-African Parliament details the objectives for which the PAP was established. Key read more...
SOUTHERN AFRICA: UN initiative speeds up service delivery
09 October 2006, UN IRIN
JOHANNESBURG, 9 October (IRIN) - Two months ago, hospitals in Botswana had to wait four months for the delivery of emergency medicines, but with the help of a UN initiative this has now been slashed to just six days.
The Southern African Capacity Initiative (SACI), launched in 2004 to deal with the haemorrhaging of administrative skills read more...
Preparing for the 2007 mutual review of development partners
06 October 2006, NEPAD DIALOGUE (NEPAD Secretariat)
In the spirit of mutual responsibility and accountability embedded in NEPAD, the Heads of State and Government Implementation Committee back in 2003 mandated the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) in cooperation with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), to urgently conclude the institutional framework for read more...
President Kagame launches NEPAD e-Schools project in Rwanda
06 October 2006, NEPAD DIALOGUE (NEPAD Secretariat)
The NEPAD e-Schools Demonstration Project was officially launched in Rwanda by President Paul Kagame on 5 October 2006 at the GS Muhura School in the Gatsibo district of the Eastern Province. The project is a joint venture of the Rwandan Government, Cisco Systems, Microsoft and the NEPAD e-Africa Commission.
Rwanda is the fifth country read more...
Court Decisions Not Respected, Because Not Published
06 October 2006, Mozambican News Agency (AIM)
Justice is being denied in Mozambique because the country's own jurisprudence is not published, and decisions taken by courts, including by the Supreme Court, are not known to anybody else in the legal system.
This was one of the startling admissions made by Supreme Court judge Luis Mondlane, who is also the presiding judge of the SADC (Southern read more...
Kagame Officially Launches Nepad E-Schools Project
06 October 2006, Highway Africa News Agency
by Hana Reporter
Rwanda is the fifth country to launch the project after Uganda, Ghana, Lesotho and Kenya, but is the first country to have completed implementation in all the six schools.
"I congratulate all the stakeholders in this pioneering initiative in the education of our children and teachers. There is definitely read more...
MOZAMBIQUE: Judiciary not always independent, report
05 October 2006, UN IRIN
[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations]
JOHANNESBURG, 5 October (IRIN) - Despite improvements in Mozambique's justice sector since the end of one-party rule in 1994, the independence of the courts is still not guaranteed, says a new report.
Judges and prosecutors interviewed during the course read more...
Report criticises 'inhuman' prison conditions
04 October 2006, Mozambican News Agency (AIM)
Maputo, 4 Oct (AIM) - Mozambican prisons do not respect the minimum conditions laid down by the United Nations for the treatment of inmates.
This is one of the findings of a detailed report by the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) into "the Justice Sector and the rule of Law" in Mozambique.
A key problem is overcrowding read more...
District courts lack access to legislation
04 October 2006, Mozambican News Agency (AIM)
The disorganisation reigning in the Mozambican judiciary is such that basic legislation, even the country's constitution, is not available in many district courts.
A new report on the justice sector in Mozambique, published by the Open Society Institute for Southern Africa (OSISA), notes that law officers "suffer from a generalised lack of access read more...
MOZAMBIQUE: Donor confidence continues despite corruption
02 October 2006, UN IRIN
[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations]
MAPUTO, 2 October (IRIN) - Donors have again pledged massive support to Mozambique's state budget but lack of progress in implementing the anti-corruption strategy remains a concern.
At a recent press conference Deputy Finance Minister Pedro Couto read more...
AFRICAN UNION COMMISSION - EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Joint declaration
02 October 2006, African Union / European Commission
Addis Ababa, 2 October 2006
In many ways, 2005 became the year of Africa and the beginning of a new era in Euro-African relations. In December 2005, European Union (EU) leaders adopted a new Strategy for Africa, a new ambitious vision for our partnership and a roadmap for action. The alliance between the European and the African Union read more...
AFRICA: European Commission in US $70m support for African Union
27 September 2006, UN IRIN
[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations]
NAIROBI, 27 September (IRIN) - The European Commission and African Union are to sign a US $70 million support programme during a visit by an EC delegation led by President José Manuel Barroso to the pan-African organisation's headquarters in the Ethiopian capital read more...
Africa-wide facility to fund science takes shape
26 September 2006, SciDev.Net
Plans are being finalised for an African-led funding body for science
Catherine Brahic
Source: www.SciDev.Net
Africa's science ministers will be presented with a menu of options for financing read more...
Our Under Development is Caused By Lack of Good Governance Says Aluko-Olokun
24 September 2006, Vanguard (Nigeria)
Emma Ujah
When African Heads of State and government initiated the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD), it was in realisation that the continent remained under-developed, backward and poor and violence-stricken owing to one major factor- lack of good governance, which in turn breeds corruption, injustice, poverty and misery. read more...
Annual NEPAD partnerships summit in New York
22 September 2006, NEPAD DIALOGUE (NEPAD Secretariat)
The annual Bending the Arc summit took place in New York on 18 September 2006 on the eve of the opening of the UN General Assembly, bringing together more than 100 leaders from the private sector, civil society, the UN and donor governments.
Bending the Arc is a NEPAD project for engaging business in development and accelerating Africa's read more...
PROMISED AID INCREASES SHOULD BE SPENT DIFFERENTLY TO LIFT AFRICA OUT OF POVERTY
21 September 2006, UNCTAD
De-politicized and more predictable flows with greater economic focus needed, managed by the UN along Marshall Plan lines, UNCTAD report says
Aid to Africa not only should be doubled, as now agreed to by donors, but most of it should be distributed multilaterally, perhaps by a UN fund independent of political pressures, a new UNCTAD read more...
Nepad et intégration africaine - à la recherche d'un souffle nouveau
18 September 2006, Le Soleil (Dakar)
Le Président Abdoulaye Wade un des initiateurs du nouveau partenariat pour le développement de l'Afrique (NEPAD) croit plus que jamais au projet. Ses récentes critiques portent en fait sur la façon dont le projet est administré à partir de son secrétariat logé en Afrique du Sud. Ces propos d'Abdoul Aziz Sow en disent long sur la détermination des pères read more...
L'Équipe spéciale du NEPAD pour l'égalité entre hommes et femmes se réunit afin d'élaborer ses outils et ses directives
18 September 2006, NEPAD DIALOGUE (NEPAD Secretariat)
L'Équipe spéciale du NEPAD pour l'égalité entre hommes et femmes (NGTF) tient une séance de travail technique au Caire, Égypte, du 14 au 17 septembre 2006. Y assistent des experts en questions d'égalité entre hommes et femmes provenant de 12 pays, ainsi que des représentants spéciaux couvrant les cinq régions de l'Union Africaine (UA).
Le read more...
Atelier vise à élaborer une stratégie pour le renforcement des capacités en Afrique
18 September 2006, NEPAD DIALOGUE (NEPAD Secretariat)
Le Secrétariat du NEPAD, avec l'appui de, et en collaboration avec la Fondation pour le renforcement des capacités en Afrique (ACBF), organise un atelier auquel participeront les partenaires au sujet de l'élaboration d'une stratégie pour le renforcement des capacités en Afrique. Ledit atelier se tiendra pendant la troisième semaine d'octobre, à Abuja, read more...
China and India Breaking New Economic Ground in Africa; South-South Trade and Investment Create Imbalance, Opportunities
17 September 2006, World Bank
Press Release No:2007/89/AFR
Singapore, September 17, 2006 — A recent, massive increase in African trade and investment by Asia’s two emerging economic giants—China and India—holds great potential for growth and job creation in Africa, if significant asymmetries within the regions’ relationships are resolved, according to a new study by read more...
Workshop aims for capacity building strategy for Africa
15 September 2006, NEPAD DIALOGUE (NEPAD Secretariat)
The NEPAD Secretariat, with the support of, and in collaboration with the Africa Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF), is planning a stakeholder workshop on Developing a Capacity Building Strategy for Africa, to be held in the third week of October, in Abuja, Nigeria.
The outcomes of the workshop will serve as input into the multi-stakeholder read more...
NEPAD Gender Task Force meets to develop its tools and guidelines
15 September 2006, NEPAD DIALOGUE (NEPAD Secretariat)
The NEPAD Gender Task Force (NGTF) is holding a technical working session in Cairo, Egypt, from 14-17 September 2006. It is being attended by gender experts from 12 countries as well as special representatives covering all five regions of the Africa Union (AU).
The Chief Executive of the NEPAD Secretariat, Prof. Firmino Mucavele is officiating, read more...
African S&T - Lessons Learnt From Previous Summits
14 September 2006, SciDev.Net
by Alex Tindimubona
Since 2003, Africa's strategy for science and technology has been led by the New Partnership for Africa's Development's science and technology action plan. This intergovernmental process appears to be running well, with a robust governing and management structure and powerful projects in the pipeline.
So read more...
Guebuza On the 'United States of Africa'
10 September 2006, Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique/
According to Mozambican President Armando Guebuza, it is not so much African leaderships that should decide on transforming the continent into a single state with a single government, but the peoples of the 53 current member states of the African Union (AU).
Speaking to Mozambican journalists shortly before leaving the Libyan city of read more...
APRM - Reviewing Nigeria for Quality Governance
05 September 2006, This Day (Nigeria)
In August, the Federal Government initiated a process of self assessment for quality governance in line with the principles of African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), a programme of the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD). Ghana already has a model APR. Abimbola Akosile examines a process which involves assessment of a Local Government in each read more...
Nepad faults state over corruption, tribalism
04 September 2006, The Standard (Nairobi)
by Stephen Makabila and Isaiah Lucheli
Corruption and tribalism are derailing economic growth, the New Partnership for African Development (Nepad) has said.
Dr Grace Ongile, Nepad executive director, said unless the government eradicated the vices, last year's 5.8 per cent economic growth was likely to drift back to negative read more...
Facing the challenges to NEPAD implementation
01 September 2006, NEPAD DIALOGUE (NEPAD Secretariat)
While significant progress has been recorded in the implementation of NEPAD programmes, many constraints have been identified over the past five years. These challenges need to be confronted in order to accelerate implementation and deepen ownership of NEPAD.
The first challenge is to strengthen and sustain progressive political leadership. read more...
Affronter le défi de la mise en œuvre du NEPAD
01 September 2006, NEPAD DIALOGUE
En dépit des nombreux progrès effectués dans la mise en place des programmes du NEPAD, plusieurs obstacles ont pu être identifiés lors des cinq dernières années. Il est impératif de traiter ces problèmes afin d’accélérer la mise en œuvre du NEPAD, et d’approfondir l’appropriation et la reconnaissance de celui-ci.
Le premier défi est de read more...
Governance at the heart of development cooperation: Commission proposes measures to foster reforms
30 August 2006, European Commission
Reference: IP/06/1137
The European Commission has today adopted a communication which proposes enhancing the means used to support governance and calls on the Member States to harmonise their work in this area. It advocates supporting the development of democratic institutions and processes more adapted to the needs of ordinary citizens, read more...
La gouvernance au cœur de la coopération au développement: la Commission propose des mesures pour favoriser les réformes
30 August 2006, Commission Européenne
IP/06/1137
La Commission européenne a adopté aujourd’hui une communication qui propose de renforcer les moyens d’appuyer la gouvernance et invite les Etats membres à harmoniser leurs efforts dans ce domaine. La Commission propose de soutenir le développement d’institutions et de processus démocratiques qui répondent davantage aux besoins read more...
'Ecowas Court Must Uphold Citizenship, Human Rights'
29 August 2006, This Day (Nigeria)
With the coast clear for individuals to file suits at the Community Court of Justice ECOWAS, situated at the Federal Capital City of Abuja, the court may soon determine the alleged spate of selective ethnic killings said to be rocking Cote d'Ivoire. This was revealed at a recent media chat hosted by Open Society Initiative West Africa (OSIWA) in Abuja.
read more...
ICT Ministers of Eastern and Southern Africa Sign Policy and Regulatory Framework Protocol for NEPAD Broadband ICT Infrastructure Network
29 August 2006, e-Africa Commission
Kigali, Rwanda, 29 August 2006. Government Ministers responsible for Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) from eastern and southern Africa today signed a Policy and Regulatory Framework Protocol for NEPAD ICT Broadband Infrastructure Network, including the Eastern Africa Sub-marine Cable System (EASSy) Project. Countries that signed the read more...
ECA hosts ECOWAS statistics meeting
28 August 2006, UNECA
Addis Ababa, 28 August 2006 - A fourth meeting of statistics officials the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) began today under the auspices of the United Nations to boost statistics in the West Africa sub-region.
Hosted by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa's African Center for Statistics (ECA-ACS), in partnership read more...
Partnership is key element in NEPAD implementation
25 August 2006, NEPAD DIALOGUE
The NEPAD agenda and advocacy by NEPAD leaders has kept Africa and its imperatives visible on the world agenda, in spite of other pressing problems emerging elsewhere on the globe. This is an important signal which demonstrates that the partnership with the highly industrialised countries is delivering.
NEPAD has not only changed the read more...
Namibia eligible for US Millennium funding
24 August 2006, The Namibian
BRIGITTE WEIDLICH
NAMIBIA has been chosen as one of the few African countries which are
eligible for a new development aid programme from the USA.
The project submission process started in April this year and will be
completed next month.
The Director General of the National Planning Commission read more...
Gouvernance - Dorothy Njeuma prend du galon au Nepad
22 August 2006, Cameroon Tribune
Le recteur de l'université de Yaoundé I a été récemment nommée à la tête du Mécanisme africain d'évaluation par les pairs (MAEP) à Banjul.
C'est lors du cinquième sommet du Nepad (Nouveau partenariat pour le développement de l'Afrique) tenu le 30 juin dernier à Banjul en Gambie que le Recteur de l'université de Yaoundé I le Dr Dorothy read more...
MISE EN OEUVRE DES PROGRAMMES DU NEPAD
21 August 2006, NEPAD DIALOGUE
Les politiques et les priorités du NEPAD ont désormais été reconnues au niveau international et constituent le cadre de travail pour le développement de l’Afrique. Par le biais du NEPAD, l’Afrique a su remettre en question et changer de façon positive le paradigme du développement : les domaines de l’agriculture, de l’infrastructure, des sciences et read more...
IMPLEMENTATION OF NEPAD PROGRAMMES
18 August 2006, NEPAD DIALOGUE
NEPAD policies and priorities have now become the internationally approved framework for Africa’s development. Through NEPAD, Africa has challenged and successfully changed the development paradigm: agriculture, infrastructure, science and technology, and regional economic integration, which were not among top priorities of NEPAD’s development partners, read more...
Private Sector Can Help Africa Advance If It Shares Profits, Say Participants At UN Meeting
18 August 2006, UN News Service
Although the private sector has a key role to play in Africa's development, safeguards must be in place to ensure that developing countries share in the profits business generates on their soil, according to participants at a meeting today organized by the United Nations charged with promoting development across the continent.
The New read more...
COTE D IVOIRE: UN condemns nation's prison conditions
17 August 2006, IRIN News
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Cote d'Ivoire on Thursday issued a scathing report on the country's penitentiary system, saying people were being held in overcrowded, unsanitary, crumbling prisons, with severe malnutrition a leading cause of death.
The report also cited extended provisional custody, lack of health care and read more...
Nepad Discuss Joint Development Strategies
17 August 2006, The New Times (Rwanda)
by Robert Mukombozi & Florence Mutesi
The Ministry of Finance and the New Partnership for African Development (Nepad) Secretariat yesterday discussed plans to undertake a uniform implementation of their strategic programmes. The consultative meeting held at Hotel Novotel, streamlined several fundamental benchmarks in which the two institution's read more...
SOUTH AFRICA: Parliament delays child rights bill
14 August 2006, IRIN News
Comprehensive legislation that would prevent child criminals from mixing with adult offenders and provide rehabilitation alternatives remains unenacted nearly three years after its preparation.
The Child Justice Bill, which received widespread public backing in 2003 and enjoyed cross-party support, had seemingly dropped off parliament's read more...
AFRICAN LEADERS TO BRAINSTORM NEPAD
11 August 2006, NEPAD DIALOGUE
A Summit of the NEPAD Heads of State and Government Implementation Committee is to be convened in Abuja, Nigeria, in November 2006 to brainstorm a review of the achievements of NEPAD and possible improvements of its programs and operations. This follows a decision taken at this year’s Assembly of the African Union in Khartoum, Sudan.
NEPAD, read more...
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