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Visit to OECD by Dr Tomaz Salomão, Executive Secretary of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), November 2010
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Dr Salomão was the guest of honor at a meeting held at the OECD on 4 November 2010. More than 45 representatives of OECD Delegations and Directorates along with Southern African Development Community member country Ambassadors and embassy staff based in Paris took part in this exchange of views organised jointly by the OECD Centre for Co-operation with Non-Members, the Africa Partnership Forum Support Unit and the NEPAD-OECD Africa Investment Initiative.
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15th Africa Partnership Forum, 26 October 2010, Malawi
The 15th APF was hosted by the Malawi government in Lilongwe on 26 October, 2010. The Forum opened with an update on issues and outcomes of key recent and forthcoming meetings concerning Africa’s development, including the G8,G20,AU and UN MDG Review Summits.
Participants discussed the work of the High-Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Finance and the outcome of the 7th session of the Africa Development Forum (ADF VII). The final session concentrated on monitoring of delivery commitments using the 2010 Mutual Review of Development Effectiveness in Africa (MRDE) as the background document.
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First Joint Statement on Co-operation signed between UNECA and OECD, June 2010
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Signing of Joint Statement by Mr Richard Boucher, OECD (left), and Mr Abdoulie Janneh, UNECA (right)
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A Joint Statement on Cooperation between UNECA and OECD was signed by UNECA Executive Secretary Abdoulie Janneh and OECD Deputy Secretary-General Richard Boucher in Paris on Friday, 11th June. The Joint Statement expands cooperation to a number of priority policy areas for the two organizations and will facilitate staff development initiatives and exchanges.
The two organizations already collaborate on several activities such as the annual African Economic Outlook (also prepared with the African Development Bank).
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A close working relationship has been built between the Africa Partnership Forum (APF) Support Unit (hosted at the OECD) and UNECA, who jointly produce regular reports monitoring the delivery of commitments by Africa and its development partners – the Mutual Review of Development Effectiveness (MRDE). The 2010 MRDE will focus on attainment of the MDGs in Africa and will feed into the MDG Review Summit at the UN in September 2010.
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Signing of Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for APF Support Unit, June 2010
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A ceremony was held on 17th June 2010 in the margins of the OECD Council meeting to mark the signing of an MOU to extend the hosting arrangements for the Africa Partnership Support Unit at the OECD, until mid 2012.
The Support Unit works with African partners to help prepare the APF's bi-annual meetings, prepare policy and monitoring papers on commitments to Africa's development and publishes the joint OECD-UNECA Mutual Review of Development Effectiveness.
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The photo shows seven signatories of the MOU (France, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland). Other countries are expected to sign the MOU at a later date. (see more photos)
From left to right: Front row: Ambassador Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues (Portugal), Mr Angel Gurria, OECD Secretary-General, Ambassador Norio Hattori (Japan); Middle row: Ambassador Harald Neple (Norway), Ambassador Edmond Wellenstein (Netherlands), Ambassador Mats Ringborg (Sweden): Back row: Deputy Permanent Representative, M. Jacques Sturm (France), Mr David Batt, Director, APF Support Unit, Ambassador Eric Martin (Switzerland
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14th Africa Partnership Forum, 29-30 April, Toronto, Canada
The 14th APF was hosted by the Canadian government in Toronto on 29-30 April 2010 following the G8 Development Ministers meeting. The Forum opened with an update on the issues and outcomes of key recent and forthcoming meetings concerning Africa’s development, including the 14th AU Summit, the AU/ECA Finance Ministers meeting held in Malawi, the forthcoming G8 Development ministers meeting, and the G8 and G20 Summits.
Forum participants then discussed key concerns for Africa in the run up to the MDG Review Summit to be held in New York this September. The focus was on achieving the Health MDGs - specifically maternal and child health. Discussions concentrated on the impact of the financial and economic crisis on health and reviewed innovative financing, innovative partnerships and science and technology for health. The next session covered MDG 1 and addressed food insecurity in Africa, looking at the impact of the crisis on food security, projected world market conditions and innovative financing, innovative partnerships and science and technology for food security. The final session of the Forum discussed Regional Partnerships and regional integration in Africa, including the roles of AU/NEPAD and the RECs. The session specifically focussed on: economic integration, peace and security and how Development Partners can best support these. Meeting documents
The Joint Statement produced at the Forum informed the G8 and G20 fora and fed into the process leading up to the UN MDG Review Summit in September 2010.
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The 13th meeting of the APF took place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 25 January 2010 at the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) Headquarters.
APF Members from Africa, OECD countries and international institutions working on Africa focussed on five key priorities for Africa’s development. First, progress made on addressing climate change, with a discussion of the outcome of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference and its implications for Africa. Second, progress on fostering food security, focusing on progress made on implementing commitments to address food security challenges in Africa from the L’Aquila G8 Summit through to the Pittsburgh G20 Summit and the Rome World Food Summit on Food Security in December 2009. Third, monitoring the impact of and response to the international financial and economic crisis as it relates to Africa. Fourth, a special focus on the impact of the crisis on health in Africa. The World Bank presented the AU/NEPAD African Action Plan for 2010-2015. A Joint Statement was issued on the conclusions of the meeting and this will be shared widely among the international development community. Meeting documents
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APF Special Session on Climate Change: Highlighting Africa’s priorities in the run up to Copenhagen
The Africa Partnership Forum held a Special Session on Climate Change on September 3, 2009 at UN Economic Commission for Africa’s Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The meeting focussed on Africa’s key concerns and expectations in the run up to the forthcoming Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP15) in December. This was the first such thematic Special Session of the APF. Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia gave the keynote address and was joined by Ministers, Africa’s development partners, and regional institutions (e.g. African Union Commission and New Partnership for Africa’s Development). The Joint Statement was transmitted to the UN High Level event on 22 September, the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh in September and other international processes. Papers for the Special Session can be found here.
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The 12th meeting of the Africa Partnership Forum (APF) was held in Rome on 10 June 2009
The meeting was opened by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the government of Italy, and was addressed by the President of Togo, the Prime Minister of Somalia, Ministers from the governments of the Republic of the Congo, Italy, Japan and Portugal, the Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa, the Commissioner for Economic Affairs of the African Union, and the CEO of the NEPAD Secretariat. The meeting discussed 4 issues : the response to the economic crisis as it affects Africa; peace and security and terrorism, and in particular the problems of drug trafficking and piracy; climate change; and the future of the APF as a forum for dialogue between Africa and its development partners. The conclusions of the Forum are being transmitted to wider political processes, including forthcoming meetings of the UN, G8 and African Union, and the preparations for the next G20 Summit, and the Copenhagen Conference on climate change.
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Mutual Review of Development Effectiveness: A unique exercise in mutual accountability
Growing global attention is focused on the challenge of accelerating progress towards the MDGs and the need for strengthened monitoring and mutual accountability arrangements in the international system. Initiated in 2003 at the request of African leaders, the Mutual Review of Development Effectiveness (MRDE) is a unique consultation mechanism between African leaders and policymakers and their OECD counterparts to promote dialogue, track commitment delivery, highlight good practice and suggest go-forward priorities. The Mutual Review process goes beyond reporting on progress against commitments it will also have a bearing on the shape of the international development calendar in 2009.
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The 2009 version of the Mutual Review of Development Effectiveness Report, a follow-on to the first edition published in 2005, has been developed jointly by the UN Economic Commission for Africa and the OECD. The Report is organised around the following themes:
- Sustainable economic growth, including trade, agriculture, infrastructure, private sector development, climate change;
- Human development, including education, health and gender;
- Governance, focusing on political and economic governance and peace and security, and;
- Development finance which includes subsections on domestic revenue mobilisation, aid, foreign direct investment and other private financial flows, and debt relief .... (more)
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