An extraordinary Summit of the Committee of Heads of State and Government charged with the implementation of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) will be held on 21 March 2007 in Algiers (Algeria). During this meeting will be examined the state of implementation of the NEPAD since its launching in 2001, its prospects in order to strengthen and ensure a coherent realization of its objectives; will be also reviewed relationships and partnerships with the G8, China, India, Japan, Latin America and the European Union. The Summit are supposed to make recommandations that will be submitted to the African Union (AU) at its next Summit in Accra (Ghana).
The NEPAD has been conceived as a vision and strategic framework for Africa’s Renewal to address the current challenges facing the African continent: poverty, underdevelopment and marginalisation. This Partnership therefore envisions to eradicate poverty, to place African countries (individually and collectively) on the path of sustainable growth and development, to halt the marginalisation of Africa in the globalisation process and enhance its full and beneficial integration into the global economy, to accelerate the empowerment of women.
