What is NEPAD
The NEPAD strategic framework arises from a mandate given to the five initiating Heads of State (Algeria, Egypt, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa,) by the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) to develop an integrated socioeconomic development framework for Africa. The socio-economic framework was a result of the merger of the OMEGA initiative, which had been initiated by President Wade of Senegal and the Millennium Partnership for the African Recovery Programme (MAP) into the New Africa Initiative (NAI). NAI, which was later named the New Partnership for Africa’s Development, was formerly adopted by the 37th Summit of the OAU in July 2001, in Lusaka, Zambia.
“The founding countries all came to the party and joined forces designing a comprehensive development framework which could be used as a referral framework,” he adds. “The referral framework would measure the outcomes of delivering certain development programmes in key sectors such as Infrastructure, which covers energy, transport, ICTs, water and sanitation; Agriculture and Food; Peace and Science, and Technology; Trade & Market Access, including, Tourism and the Environment; Human Development - which includes Health and Education and Water & Sanitation.