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Addis Ababa, January 26, 2015 - NEPAD’s impact and progress
came under the spotlight on Sunday at
The Committee, comprised of
representatives of 20 African Heads of States, Regional Economic Communities
(REC’s) and development partners met to assess progress made in various NEPAD
programmes and activities.
Reporting back on 2014
activities, NEPAD Agency Chief Executive Officer Dr Ibrahim Mayaki emphasised
that the Agency’s interventions are oriented towards transformative impact and
changing the living conditions of Africanpeople.
“The NEPAD Agency collective
presence is continental, with development interventions leveraging impacts in
50 countries. The Agency has achieved significant transformative development
results in its major thematic areas of priorities,” Dr Mayaki said.
On regional integration, Dr
Mayaki referred to the Dakar Financing Summit (DFS) as a milestone in
identifying 16 bankable infrastructure projects that will address Africa’s
infrastructure deficit. The NEPAD Agency has established a Service Delivery
Mechanism, as part of the Dakar Agenda for Action, to support early-stage project
preparation and development.
Dr Mayaki also highlighted
activities underway under the partnership with USAID to implement the Power
Africa initiative, which aims to add 30,000 MW of additional capacity and
providing 60 million household and businesses with energy connections.
The Steering Committee
members were briefed on progress made in the implementation of the
Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), in which 50 out
of 54 member states are currently engaged. 40 countries have signed up to the
CAADP Compact, to allocate 10 per cent of national budgets to agriculture and
25 countries have adopted Agriculture and Food Security Investment Plans.
A CAADP Results Framework has been developed to better track, assess and
monitor progress made towards the Malabo Decision to accelerate agricultural
growth and transformation.
Mrs Estherine Fotabong,
NEPAD Director of Programme Implementation and Coordination highlighted the
Gender, Climate Change and Agriculture SupportProgramme which aims to equip
women and other vulnerable farming groups with the knowledge, tools and skills
needed to better adapt to the effects of climate change in agriculture. A total
number of 25 million farmers will have reached climate smart technologies by
2025, Mrs Fotabong said.
She also cautioned that the
NEPAD Agency is the first organisation in Africa to have established a Climate
Change Fund, to make available to countries and RECs technical assistance,
capacity building, knowledge management and policy development on climate
change issues.
Mrs Gnounka Diouf,
Chairperson of the NEPAD Steering Committee, commended progress made by the
NEPAD Agency in 2014 and urged that 2015 will be an even more important year to
accelerate NEPAD programme implementation, as it marks the deadline of the
Millennium Development Goals and the development of Agenda 2063.
AU Commissioner for Economic
Affairs, African Union Dr Anthony Mothae Maruping said: “We need to take Agenda 2063 very
seriously and turn our strategies into concrete implementable initiatives and
carry them out.” Dr Maruping emphasised that the AUC will work closely with
the NEPAD Agency on a 10 year implementation plan, as NEPAD remains relevant at
national, regional and continental level.
The Steering Committee reviewed
the Agenda for the 32nd NEPAD Heads of State Government and
Orientation Committee Summit to be held on January 29.
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