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PROGRESS AND CHALLENGES WITH IMPLEMENTATION OF
NEPAD PROGRAMMES IN SADC OTHER AU REGIONS

• BRIEFING BY DEPUTY MINISTER SUE VAN DER MERWE
• TO PARLIAMENTARY PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN
  AFFAIRS
• CAPE TOWN, 1 AUGUST 2007

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OUTLINE OF PRESENTATION

• Presentation will focus on
• key challenges priorities for implementation of
  NEPAD during 2007/8
• Progress within South Africa on initiatives being
  undertaken to internalise NEPAD as an approach to
  socio-economic sustainable development
• Translating the SADC RISDP plan as regional
  expression of NEPAD
• Outlining continental initiatives aimed at
  meeting NEPAD priority areas at the continental
  level
• Brief overview on developments regarding APRM
  process.

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KEY SOUTH AFRICAN CHALLENGES PRIORITIES FOR
2007/8

• Interact with key continental, international
  partners stakeholders to generate/access
  support (financial, technical institutional)
  for implementation of NEPAD utilise every
  available forum for this purpose.
• Take stock of international pledges of support
  for implementation of NEPAD, including various
  sectoral NEPAD plans, strategies, programmes
  projects to see what actions should be
  prioritised by South Africa to ensure focused
  specific rollout key actions.
• Ensure that each AU member state RECs align
  national regional development programmes with
  NEPAD

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NATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION OF NEPAD

• Development of National Strategy (NISSA)
• NEPAD Science Technology initiatives
• NEPAD ICT initiatives
• NEPAD Health initiative
• NEPAD Good Governance initiative
• NEPAD Education initiatives
• NEPAD Agricultural initiatives

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REGIONAL IMPLEMENTATION OF NEPAD

• SADC Regional Strategic Development Plan (RISDP)
  has been SADC regions response to implementation
  of NEPAD Programmes has reiterated synergies
  between the two.
• RISDP is focused on programmes that add value to
  regional integration, or enhance the capacity to
  achieve SADC objectives.
• Implementation of RISDP is focused on spatial
  development initiatives (development corridors,
  growth centres transfrontier conservation
  areas).
• Activities in terms of NEPAD sectoral programmes
  have been built into each of sectors of SADC work
  programme under RISDP.
• SADC NEPAD Secretariats have both appointed
  focal points to expedite co-operation between two
  institutions.

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REGIONAL CHALLENGES IN IMPLEMENTING NEPAD

• Defining NEPAD RISDP programmes/projects
• NEPAD project must have potential to be expanded
  into regional or continental project.
• Carefully selected current programmes/projects
  should be packaged relabelled as NEPAD
  programmes/ projects.
• RISDP project must be designed from onset as a
  regional project, instead of a national project
  having potential to be expanded into a regional
  project.
• Communication Information Sharing
• Aim of communication information sharing should
  be to promote awareness understanding of NEPAD
  RISDP

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CONTINENTAL IMPLEMENTATION OF NEPAD

• Continental Discussions on Political Strategic
  Direction of NEPAD
• 17th Meeting of Heads of State Government
  Implementation Committee (HSGIC) took place in
  Accra on 1 July 2007, within margins of AU
  Summit.
• Principal item on agenda of HSGIC was a
  discussion on integration of NEPAD Secretariat
  into AU Commission, with concurrent establishment
  of a NEPAD Planning Coordination Agency.
• HSGIC agreed on Brainstorming Summit to discuss
  recommendations on integration of NEPAD into AU
  structure processes, to be held as soon as
  possible i.e. before end of 2007.

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CONTINENTAL IMPLEMENTATION OF NEPAD

• NEPAD Project Implementation at continental level
• NEPAD Environment initiative
• Establishment of African Environmental Facility
• NEPAD Tourism Action Plan
• NEPAD ICT programmes
• NEPAD Food Security Summit
• Programme on Governance Public Administration
• NEPAD Broadband Infrastructure Project
• Chinese continental support for NEPAD

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PROGRESS MADE ON AFRICAN CONTINENT DUE TO
ADHERENCE TO NEPAD VISION PRINCIPLES

• African continental regional organisations
• Peace security
• Priority areas
• Health
• Infrastructural Development
• ODA levels
• African Economic Growth

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CONTINENTAL CHALLENGES FACING NEPAD IMPLEMENTATION

• Strengthening political leadership
• Capacity building
• Integration of NEPAD priorities into national
  development programmes
• Increase multi-country infrastructure projects
• Widening APRM participation
• Converting pledges by Developed Countries into
  concrete actions
• Making ODA more effective

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OPERATIONALISATION OF AFRICAN PEER REVIEW
MECHANISM

• Of twenty-six countries that have acceded to
  APRM, thirteen have been engaged in peer review
  process.
• Of these, five countries (Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda,
  Algeria South Africa) have completed process.
• APRM Panel will hold Brainstorming Session in
  Algiers towards end of October 2007 to review
  lessons learnt from five reviews done so far.

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CONCLUSION

• NEPAD a long-term development programme.
  Critical success factors enhanced political
  leadership, ownership by people, strengthening
  institutional human financial capacity of
  national, regional continental development
  institutions increased support by international
  community.
• African people need to be convinced that NEPAD
  relevant to them, can address poverty, can ensure
  sustainable socio-economic development growth
  can make a significant impact on quality of their
  daily lives.
• People need to see tangible infrastructure
  projects, an agricultural revolution, improved
  health education delivery systems. It in these
  areas that greatest challenges for NEPAD to be
  found. Scale pace of delivery in these
  priority sectors remains low.

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WAY FORWARD

• South Africa has taken leading role in developing
  NEPAD as Africas premier development programme,
  in mobilising African international support for
  NEPAD in supporting structures processes of
  NEPAD.
• In looking forward to 2010, it is crucial that
• South Africa continues to mobilise material
  support domestically, regionally, continentally
  internationally for implementation of NEPAD
• NEPAD should be made relevant to South Africa as
  a country and
• South Africa should actively assist in process to
  move NEPAD to higher plane of action and
  implementation.