NEPAD Case Study
It could be said that despite all the attempts to change the situation, Africans have continued to struggle and hope for a better life even under the most difficult conditions. Hence, the need for NEPAD. NEPAD formerly known as New Africa Initiative (NAI) was a merger of two processes which are: the Millennium Africa Recovery Plan (MAP) and the Omega Plan. The MAP originated from the attendance at the G8 meeting in Okinawa, Japan in July 2000, of Presidents Mbeki (South Africa), Obasanjo (Nigeria) and Bouteflika (Algeria). – Chairpersons at the time of the NAM, the G77 and the OAU respectively. Following the Okinawa meeting in Japan, OAU requested the three leaders to draft a development plan for the continent. At the World Economic Forum in
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The mortality rate among children under 5 years is 140 per 100 and life expectancy is only 54 years. There is illiteracy, rate of over 40% for people above 15 years; in addition to widespread unemployment and under employment both in cities and rural areas.
The NEPAD conceptual framework for redevelopment and positing favorable economic growth rate in Africa is a merger of two separate and earlier initiatives by Thabo Mbeki South African president and Abdoulaiye Wade Senegalese president. The millenuim and Omega plans. The merger of the two plans gave birth to the NEPAD programmes of action and vision by African leaders to champion the course of Africa’s economy recovery. The synthesis of these precious plans gave birth to a blue print and policy actions to address the key social, economic and political problems besieging …show more content…
Other arising unresolved questions about NEPAD which this study will try to established is the ownership questions as well as the allegation from the gender sensitivity school against the action plan as lacking vital information against the action plan as lacking vital elements of gender sensitive in addition to the faulting of the initiative as just a doing of the failed initiative in the past and lacked any new ideas. The optimists holds the potency of a new beginning for Africa, at least it will provide a common platform to engage the rest of the world in dynamic partnership including that it holds the prospects of creating a better improved life for all Africans. These contentious of investigations of this
The mortality rate among children under 5 years is 140 per 100 and life expectancy is only 54 years. There is illiteracy, rate of over 40% for people above 15 years; in addition to widespread unemployment and under employment both in cities and rural areas.
The NEPAD conceptual framework for redevelopment and positing favorable economic growth rate in Africa is a merger of two separate and earlier initiatives by Thabo Mbeki South African president and Abdoulaiye Wade Senegalese president. The millenuim and Omega plans. The merger of the two plans gave birth to the NEPAD programmes of action and vision by African leaders to champion the course of Africa’s economy recovery. The synthesis of these precious plans gave birth to a blue print and policy actions to address the key social, economic and political problems besieging …show more content…
Other arising unresolved questions about NEPAD which this study will try to established is the ownership questions as well as the allegation from the gender sensitivity school against the action plan as lacking vital information against the action plan as lacking vital elements of gender sensitive in addition to the faulting of the initiative as just a doing of the failed initiative in the past and lacked any new ideas. The optimists holds the potency of a new beginning for Africa, at least it will provide a common platform to engage the rest of the world in dynamic partnership including that it holds the prospects of creating a better improved life for all Africans. These contentious of investigations of this