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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
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.
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.
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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Mutual Review of Development Effectiveness: Promise & Performance
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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