Determining African National Priorities

Presentation by Samira Hotobah-During

NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency

Determining African National Priorities

• The framework of the continental priorities• The African Union’s New Partnership for

Africa’s Development (NEPAD)• Determination of national priorities• The NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency

(NEPAD Agency)• How to finance the priorities

NEPAD IS A PROGRAMME OF THE AFRICAN UNION

Integrated strategy and framework for development

NEPAD’S VISIONPromote sustainable growth and development and halt Africa’s marginalization

NEPAD’s Core Principles and Values

- Ownership

- Good Governance

- Regional Integration

The NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency

• ROAD TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF NPCA

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• Facilitate and coordinate the implementation of continental and regional priority programmes and projects

•Align policy frameworks and programmes with AU decisions•Ensure the delivery of consistent quality programmes to steer and accelerate transformation

• Mobilize resources and partners in support of programmes and projects implementation

•Acquire new and grow number of PPPs and partners

•Enable capacity at member states and REC level

•Conduct and coordinate research and knowledge management

•Develop processes to enable NPCA to be a development knowledge leader

•Monitor and Evaluate the implementation of programmes and projects

•Effective programme oversight to enable socio-economic transformation for Africa

•Advocate on the AU and NEPAD vision, mission and core principles/values

MANDATE AND CORE FUNCTIONS OF NPCAMANDATE AND CORE FUNCTIONS OF NPCA

• 23 countries have signed the CAADP compact and one regional Compact (ECOWAS)

• 10 national investment plans reviewed

Agriculture and Food Security

• 10 countries have surpassed the 10% mark

• Over 20 countries have achieved agricultural growth rates of 6% or more.

Regional compact

10% budgetary allocation to the agric sector6% sustained growth rates

Partnership for African Fisheries (PAF) Programme

•Working groups have been established in three key policy areas

•Establishment of $60m Fisheries seed fund in West, Central and Southern Africa

Good GovernanceIllegal Fishing and

Aquaculture development

Trade and access to markets

• Development of Joint AUC/NEPAD Priority Infrastructure Projects for 2010 -2015 in African Action Plan (AAP)

Regional Integration and Infrastructure

• Construction of West African Gas Pipeline Completed