Africa is still facing significant
development challenges
● Institutional capacity to adequately improve livelihoods
of Africa’s citizens
● Systematic pan-African cross-institutional collaboration
● Effective strategies to empower Africa’s citizens
● Easy access to assessment data and well-functioning
monitoring systems
● Continental and joint perspective on key development
issues
At a principle level, Africa’s leaders have
agreed to address these challenges
through collective action ……..
“NEPAD will establish a forum of African countries so as to develop a common
African position on ODA reform, and to engage with the OECD Development
Assistance Committee (DAC) and other donors in developing a charter
underpinning the development partnership. This charter will identify the
Economic Governance Initiative as a prerequisite for enhancing the capacity of
African Countries …………
“
Among specific “Actions” – “constitute an ODA forum for developing a common
African position on ODA reform, as a counterpart to the OECD/DAC structure”……..
NEPAD Framework, 2001 Para 48
At an Action level - Africa’s leaders have
agreed to address these challenges through
collective action on CD and DE………
1. Endorsement of the AU-NEPAD Capacity Development Strategic
Framework (CDSF) … as Africa’s common reference and policy guiding
framework on capacity development ……
2. “Setup of the Africa Platform for Development Effectiveness by the
NEPAD Agency in conjunction with AUC……as a multi-stakeholder forum
on development effectiveness focusing on SSC and AE with Capacity
Development as a core driver ………
High level mandate of 14th and 15th African Union
Summits (Feb & July 2010, Addis Ababa & Kampala)
A physical and virtual platform for
Africa’s development stakeholders
A space for knowledge sharing and collaboration on:
1
2
Aid
Effectiveness
3
South-South
Cooperation
Capacity
Development
Development Effectiveness
APDev works on
Capacity Development, as a Core to DE
(SSC, AE) towards
● Empowered institutions that more effectively deliver
results
● A more systematic improvement of individual and
institutional capacity , supported by effective policy
frameworks
Concretely, this means:
Further raise the importance and need to integrate capacity development
into national and regional development plans and processes for DE.
APDev is publishing a report, assessing Africa’s capacity as a baseline to
more effectively address capacity needs in all African countries
APDev actively supports the development of capacities in African
institutions, i.e. RECs, through targeted and practical monthly training and
knowledge exchange sessions
APDev works on
Aid Effectiveness, towards
●
A common voice on development in Africa
●
More effective use of development resources
●
Use of Aid to assist build, nurture, harness & utilize
African capacities (CD)
Concretely, this means:
APDev is organizing Africa’s collective input into the High Level Forum
IV in Busan through a Consensus Statement
APDev works with African institutions on cross-border issues such as
Trade Facilitation, Infrastructure development etc
APDev works on
South-South Cooperation, towards
● Mutual learning of what works and what does not
work in development
● More effective knowledge sharing across
institutions, countries and continents
Concretely, this means:
APDev is capturing and publishing case studies on Africa’s experience in
collaboration and cooperation across countries
Mapping SS exchanges across Africa and reinforcing RECs role as a
primary SS mechanism within AU architecture for intra Africa cooperation
APDev fosters knowledge sharing across institutions through regular
hands-on knowledge exchange dialogues on how to effectively address
development and capacity challenges
So, what is APDev? ……
With CD as core …… it is ….
● A multistakeholder
forum
● A knowledge
base & mutual
learning hub
● An integrated
community of
practice
● A network for
knowledge, policy &
practice links
● An African-country-led
mechanism with an
active role for RECs’
APDev consists of two basic interrelated building blocks:
Knowledge Repository
(online database)
Community of Practitioners
working for Africa’s
Development
EXPERTISE
Capacities for:
Reporting, Statistics,
Case studies, guides,
check lists, etc.
Capacities for:
Knowledge sharing and
collaboration, in both
virtual & physical spaces.
How is APDev governed?
Oversight Committee
Chairs: AUC / NEPAD Agency
Members: African Countries,
RECs, Key Stakeholder
Organizations, Partner
Institutions
Core Management Team
Partner Institutions and RECs
APDev Technical Support Team
(Secretariat)
APDev Discussion & Knowledge Sharing Forum
Why is APDev needed?
….. Knowledge related capacities
Because all Africans and Africa’s partners are ready to
work much closer together towards the Continent’s
renewal in developing capacity for results delivery
Because there is need for a
common knowledge base on
what works and what does
not in Africa’s context
Because new inclusive and innovative ways are needed
to collectively take on Africa’s development challenges
and all development stakeholders need to contribute
Join
The Africa Platform for Development
Effectiveness (APDev)
at
www.africa-platform.org
Inspiring change for development results
Thank you!