DAR ES SALAAM 2009

Saturday 14 November

18.00 Welcome19.00 Event begins20.30 Reception

Sunday 15 November - Discussion Forum

Session Timings13.55 Welcome14.00 Climate Change and Climate Justice15.30 Agriculture and Food Security17.00 Coffee break17.30 Regional Economic Integration19.00 Closing

Followed by: ONE reception and civil society award

SATURDAY 14 & SUNDAY 15 NOVEMBER 2009,

MLIMANI CITY CONFERENCE CENTRE, DAR ES SALAAM

A message from Mo Ibrahim

Welcome to Dar es Salaam, and thank you for joining us.The Mo Ibrahim Foundation was founded three years ago tobring the issues of governance to the heart of the debatearound Africa’s development. Through both the awarding ofthe Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadershipand the Ibrahim Index of African Governance, we aim toapplaud the successes and bring attention to the setbacks ingovernance on the continent.

In 2009 we have seen some positive trends in governance inAfrica, but also identified some areas of concern. The Boardof the Mo Ibrahim Foundation are particularly uneasy aboutthe increasing prevalence of coups in Africa, particularly thenew trend which is best described as a pattern of “coupconversion “and “creeping coups”. “Coup conversion”happens when elections are held after a coup, purporting tolegitimise its instigator who violated the constitution.“Creeping coups” occur when leaders seek to perpetuatethemselves in power by altering the constitution. We findthis new generation of coups to be an insidious and worryingdevelopment.

In the face of these challenges, and given that no Ibrahim

Prize is being awarded this year, some have asked how we canbe here celebrating governance. In my opinion, this is a yearwhen we must do even more to tell the positive stories of ourcontinent, and importantly, to focus on the new generationof leaders who aspire to improve our mutual fate. I ampleased so many of these future leaders are here with us thisweekend.

However this is also the year in which we must really focuson and begin to tackle the pressing challenges facing ourcontinent. Aside from governance we have identified threemajor issues – Climate Change and Climate Justice,Agriculture and Food Security, and Regional EconomicIntegration - which we believe constitute an urgent Africanagenda. Tomorrow we will be discussing these issues in ourforum for which I hope you will join us. It is time for all themajor stakeholders – governments, civil society, donorcountries, emerging powers – to work together to find newsolutions to Africa’s problems. I hope our conversationsprove fruitful and result in a clear way forward.

Once again, I welcome you to Dar es Salaam and wish you awonderful weekend.

Emmanuel Jal

Emmanuel Jal has won worldwide acclaim for his uniquestyle of hip hop with its message of peace andreconciliation that comes out of his experiences as a childsoldier in Sudan. Born in war-torn Sudan, Emmanuel wastaken from his family home aged six and sent to fight withthe rebel army in the civil war for nearly five years. At 13,he was rescued by a British aid worker who smuggled himinto Kenya.

Emmanuel has since recorded three successful albums,and performed across the world. He has also founded thecharity Gua Africa, which is currently working to build aschool is his hometown of Leer, Sudan.

Lady JayDee

Lady JayDee, or Judith Daines Wambura Mbibo, is thepremier R&B artist from East Africa. She is also known asBinti Machozi. She started singing in church at the age ofseven and was a member of the Afro Reign group in themid 90s. She was a presenter at Clouds 88.4 FM radiostation after completing school and soon began recordingmusic, starting with Nakupenda (I love you) in 2000 andthen following up with Mpenzi Wangu (My love). Thesuccess of these singles made her choose to pursue amusic career. She has since formed a band called Machozito aid live performances.

She sings in Swahili, Zulu, Lingala, Kinyarwanda, Frenchand English. Her albums include Machozi, Binti, Moto,Shukrani, and now she is working on her 5th albumnamed Ya 5.

Lady JayDee and Machozi have won many awards in andoutside Tanzania including Best Female Artist in the 2008Pearl of Africa Music Awards.

Angelique Kidjo

Angelique Kidjo is an award winning Beninois singer-songwriter, noted for her diverse musical influences andcreative music videos. She recently won a Grammy Awardfor Best Contemporary World Album for ‘Djin Djin’, aswell as an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding WorldMusic album.

In the course of her career she has spread her rhythmicAfrofunk fusion to the four corners of the globe. Since2002, Angelique has been a UNICEF GoodwillAmbassador, in which role she has visited European andAfrican countries to campaign for children’s rights,healthcare and education. Angelique is the founder ofThe Batonga Foundation, which supports the educationof African girls.

Youssou N’Dour

With a career spanning over 25 years, Youssou N’Dour isone of Africa’s most celebrated musicians. A Senegalesesinger and percussionist, he has made mbalax, his country'sblend of Afro-pop, Caribbean and pop rhythms, famousthroughout the world during more than 20 years ofrecording and touring with his band, The Super Etoile.

Youssou has long been a global champion for Africa and acampaigner on social and political issues, from organisinga concert for the release of Nelson Mandela in 1985, toperforming at three of the Live 8 concerts in July, 2005.Youssou N’Dour is a UN Goodwill Ambassador and wasnamed as one of Time Magazine's 100 Most InfluentialPeople in 2007.

Discussion Forum

On Sunday 15 November the Mo Ibrahim Foundation willhost a forum in which African stakeholders gather to discusskey issues and opportunities for progress.

The forum will feature presentations from panellists andinteractive discussions on the following issues1. Climate Change and Climate Justice2. Agriculture and Food Security3. Regional Economic Integration

This will be an important gathering of people from all overthe continent. At a time when, despite overall progress inAfrica, we are seeing worrying setbacks in some countries, itis vital that African stakeholders and institutions cometogether to look for a way forward in some of the majorchallenges facing the African continent. We envision thatthese sessions will produce impetus around the commonAfrican positions on these vital issues.

The Sessions

Climate Change and Climate Justice Chair: President Festus Mogae

President Mogae, is one of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s four special envoys on climatechange.

Panellists include: H.E. Dr Mary Robinson (RealizingRights), Professor Pius Zebhe Yanda (University of Dar-es-Salaam), Ms Katherine Sierra (World Bank)

African Agriculture and Food Security Chair: HE Mr Kofi Annan

Mr Annan is Chairman of the Board of the Alliance for aGreen Revolution in Africa (AGRA).

Panellists include: Professor Gordon Conway (ImperialUniversity), Mr Donald Kaberuka (African DevelopmentBank), Dr Moise Mensah (Alliance for a Green Revolutionin Africa), Professor Rudy Rabbinge (WageningenUniversity)

African Regional Economic Integration Chair: HE Mr Abdoulie Janneh

Mr Abdoulie Janneh is Secretary-General of the UnitedNations Economic Commission for Africa.

Panellists include: Ambassador Juma Mwapachu (EastAfrican Community), Mr Benno Ndulu (Central Bank ofTanzania), Dr Augusto Tomáz Salomão (Southern AfricanDevelopment Community), Honorable Dr Joseph SindeWarioba (former Prime Minister of Tanzania)

About the Foundation

The Mo Ibrahim Foundation is committed to supportinggreat African leadership that will improve the economic andsocial prospects of the people of Africa. The Foundation’sfocus is the promotion of good governance in Africa and therecognition of excellence in African leadership.

The Foundation aims to:• Stimulate debate on good governance• Provide criteria by which citizens and civil society can

hold their governments to account• Recognise achievement in African leadership and

provide a practical way in which leaders can buildpositive legacies on the continent when they have leftoffice

• Support aspiring leaders for the African continent

The Foundation supports the transformation of Africa byfocusing its intellectual and financial resources on threemajor initiatives:

• The Ibrahim Index of African Governance• The Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African

Leadership• The Ibrahim Scholarship Programmes

The Foundation was launched in October 2006 and is governed by a Board of Directors comprised of:

Mo Ibrahim (Founder and Chair), Founder, Celtel International

Lalla Ben Barka Deputy Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, and former Director,Regional UNESCO Bureau for Education

Lord Cairns Chairman, Charities Aid Foundation and former Chief Executive Officer, SG Warburg

Nathalie Delapalme Inspector General at the Inspection Générale des Finances and former Advisor on African Issues to French Foreign Ministers

Sir Ketumile Masire Co-Chairperson of the Global Coalition for Africa and former President of Botswana

Mamphela Ramphele Chair, Circle Capital Ventures and former Managing Director, World Bank

Mary Robinson Founder and President, Realizing Rights and former President of Ireland

Salim Ahmed Salim Chair, The Mwalimu Nyerere Foundation and former Secretary-General, Organisation of African Unity

Nicholas Ulanov Managing Director, The Ulanov Partnership and co-founder, Royal Institution World ScienceAssembly

The Ibrahim Index of African Governance

The Ibrahim Index of African Governance is acomprehensive ranking of African countries according togovernance quality. Funded and led by an African institution,the Ibrahim Index aims to be Africa’s leading assessment ofgovernance that informs and empowers citizens to hold theirgovernments and public institutions to account.

The Ibrahim Index measures the delivery of public goodsand services to citizens by government and non-state actors.The Ibrahim Index uses 84 indicators to assess governance,making it the most comprehensive collection of qualitativeand quantitative data that measures governance in Africa.The criteria are divided into four main categories and 13 sub-categories:

The 2009 Ibrahim Index1 is compiled with support fromAfrican academics and researchers. In the coming years,African institutions will be responsible for the compilationof the index. The Mo Ibrahim Foundation continues to

work towards improving the amount and quality of dataavailable on Africa, and entrenching African ownership ofthe Ibrahim Index.

1 The 2007 and 2008 Ibrahim Indices were created and prepared under the auspices of the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government’s Program onIntrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution under the direction of Professor Robert Rotberg and Dr Rachel Gisselquist. We continue to welcome theircontributions to the debate on governance in Africa. Full datasets and papers are available at www.moibrahimfoundation.org/index

Safety and Rule of Law

Personal safetyRule of lawAccountability andcorruptionNational security

Participation and Human RightsParticipationRightsGender

Sustainable EconomicOpportunityEconomic managementPrivate sectorInfrastructureEnvironment and rural sector

Human Development

Poverty and healthEducation

Country Score Groupings

< or = 35

36-45

46-50

51-55

56-65

> 65

Insufficient data

The 2009 Ibrahim Index of African Governance is based on the latestavailable data for each indicator; this data is from either 2007 or 2008.Margins of error are, on average, +/- 7 points

The Ibrahim Scholarship Programmes

The Mo Ibrahim Foundation provides the followingacademic scholarships to support aspiring young Africanleaders:

The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) –The Governance for Development in Africa Initiative atSOAS aims to build the skills of bright young Africans toenable them to improve the quality of governance in theircountries. The programme has a number of strands:leadership development fellowships, residential schools inAfrica on governance, a lecture series available online, andPhD scholarships.

Together for Sudan – The Foundation provides substantialsupport for Together for Sudan to sponsor female studentsin all faculties in Ahfad University in Khartoum, with aparticular emphasis on business studies. The programmebegan with support for forty students and will grow by fortywomen each year for the next three years.

The London Business School – The Mo IbrahimFoundation Scholarship for sub-Saharan Africa aims toequip talented individuals from sub-Saharan Africa with themanagement and leadership skills essential for individual,corporate and national success. Each year one scholarship,providing full payment of fees and a living allowance, will beawarded to an exceptional MBA candidate from sub-Saharan Africa with financial need.

The American University in Cairo – The Foundation willprovide two graduate fellowships and two full undergraduatescholarships to students of Nubian origin, from Egypt orSudan, with a working knowledge of the Nubian language,who are keen to support the enrichment and preservation ofNubian culture and heritage.

The Ibrahim Prize

The Ibrahim Prize recognises and celebrates excellence inAfrican leadership. The prize is awarded to a democraticallyelected former African Executive Head of State orGovernment who has served their term in office within thelimits set by the country’s constitution and has left office inthe last three years.

The prize consists of US$5million over 10 years andUS$200,000 annually for life thereafter. It is the largestannually awarded prize in the world. The Foundation willconsider granting a further $200,000 per year, for 10 years,towards public interest activities and good causes espousedby the winner.

The winner of the Ibrahim Prize is selected by anindependent prize committee, appointed by the Foundationboard, which assesses every eligible sub-Saharan Africanleader on their exercise of leadership and the performance oftheir country during their time in office.

The members of the Prize Committee are:Kofi Annan (Chair), Former Secretary-General of the

United Nations and Nobel LaureateMartti Ahtisaari, Former President of Finland and NobelLaureateAïcha Bah Diallo, Former Minister of Education in Guineaand Director of Basic Education at UNESCOMohamed ElBaradei, Director General, InternationalAtomic Energy Agency and Nobel LaureateGraça Machel, Chancellor of the University of Cape Townand former Minister of Education in MozambiqueMary Robinson, Former President of Ireland and formerUnited Nations High Commissioner for Human RightsSalim Ahmed Salim, Former Secretary-General of theOrganisation of African Unity and former Prime Minister ofTanzania

The Ibrahim Prize has been awarded to:President Nelson Mandela of South Africa (Honorary, 2007)President Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique (2007)President Festus Mogae of Botswana (2008).

President Festus Mogae

President Festus Mogae was Botswana’s third president andthe second recipient of the Ibrahim Prize for Achievement inAfrican Leadership.

Since leaving office in 2008, President Mogae has continuedto play an important role in Africa’s development. InSeptember 2008, President Mogae launched Champions foran HIV-Free Generation. This is a group of former AfricanPresidents and other influential personalities which aims tostrengthen efforts to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS inAfrica.

He was appointed by United Nations Secretary-General BanKi-moon as one of four Special Envoys on Climate Change.His role is to support the Secretary-General in consultationswith governments and leaders, with a view to reaching acomprehensive agreement at the December 2009Copenhagen Climate Change Conference.

He is the first Chairperson of the Coalition for Dialogue onAfrica, an independent forum for free discussion of thepressing challenges facing the continent, established by theAfrican Development Bank and the United NationsEconomic Commission for Africa.

President Mogae is also the ‘President in Residence’ at theAfrican Presidential Archives and Research Centre atBoston University (APARC). His inaugural address was onthe topic ‘Democratisation in Africa: What Africans Expectfrom the Obama Administration’.

President Joaquim Chissano

In the two years since winning the inaugural Ibrahim Prizefor Achievement in African Leadership, former PresidentJoaquim Chissano of Mozambique continues to tirelesslyserve the continent.

In June this year President Chissano was appointed the leadmediator in the political crisis in Madagascar by theSouthern African Development Community and has beenengaged in negotiations that aim to find a resolution to thecrisis.

President Chissano has also worked on behalf of the UnitedNations as the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy toNorthern Uganda. In this role, President Chissano wastasked with facilitating the peace process between thegovernments of Southern Sudan and Uganda as well asrepresentatives of the Lord’s Resistance Army.

In addition to his mediation work, President Chissanocurrently serves as Chairman of the Joaquim ChissanoFoundation and the Africa Forum of Former African Headsof State and Government (Africa Forum). The JoaquimChissano Foundation is based in Mozambique and iscommitted to the promotion of peace, economicdevelopment and Mozambican culture. The Africa Forum isan informal network of former African Heads of State andGovernment and other African leaders that work to supportthe implementation of the broad objectives of the AfricanUnion (AU) and the New Partnership for Africa'sDevelopment (NEPAD).

President Chissano is also a member of: the Club of Madrid(global forum of former heads of state and government); theNelson Mandela Institution for Science and Technology;the board of The Hunger Project; the Advisory Council forthe Global Development Program; and the World FoodPrize Foundation.

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