Welcome to the Africa Partnership Forum website

The Africa Partnership Forum (APF) was established in November 2003 in the wake of the Evian Summit as a way of broadening the existing high-level G8/NEPAD dialogue to include Africa's major bilateral and multilateral development partners. The APF's mission is to strengthen partnership efforts in favour of Africa's development. More...

12th APF meeting held in Rome on 10th 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 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. More...

Mutual Review of Development Effectiveness in Africa Report 2009:  Promise & Performance

The Mutual Review of Development Effectiveness in Africa Report 2009 is both an exercise in 'mutual accountability'- assessing what has been done to deliver commitments, and a review of 'development effectiveness'- assessing what results have been achieved. It is also intended to be of practical use of political leaders in looking forward to the key policy challenges ahead.   The review has been undertaken jointly by task teams from UNECA and OECD, in close consultation with the NEPAD Secretariat, and with inputs from African and international institutions and civil society.    More.....

11th APF Meeting, Addis Ababa, 17-18 November, 2008

Africa, G8 and OECD identify actions needed to keep Africa on growth track despite global downturn

The 11th meeting of the Africa Partnership Forum took place in Addis Ababa from 17-18 November 2008, hosted by the government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. 

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