HIGHLIGHTS

The first phase of the G8/Africa Special Initiative was centered on the “Emerging Global Challenges” conference convened at the Rockefeller Foundation retreat center in Bellagio, Italy April 15-19, 2002. The meeting brought together over 20 individuals, including members of the Canadian G-8 Summit team, representatives from donor agencies, noted experts on the various initiatives, and leading African personalities involved with the NEPAD process, to finalize the project design.

The second phase of this project will be to select, on a “Request for Proposal” (RFP) competitive basis, the NEPAD initiatives that would most benefit from a strategic mapping exercise, and provide extensive visibility for the NEPAD agenda, while also advancing long-term sustainable development priorities. It is currently planned to commission 15 proposals on topics drawn from the NEPAD document’s list of program actions and initiatives. The topics will also be consistent with the themes of the Genoa G8 Summit “Action Plan for Africa.

The final phase of the project will be draft each of the selected initiatives into a blueprint that maps specific approaches, actors, policies, and plans. The resulting papers will be comprehensive proposals that include critical analysis of the current situation in the sector and geographic region, practical and cost-effective approaches to attain the objectives, and appropriate long-term operational plans to maximize effectiveness.
It is anticipated that several of the detailed concrete proposals will emerge that could become part of the Action Plan for Africa to be mandated at Kananaskis and revisited at the 2003 G8 Summit in France. The Mott Foundation is a lead sponsor of this project.

For a pdf. report of this meeting, please click here.

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