Governance and Capacity Building
Developed countries should give strong support – both political and financial – to Africa’s efforts to strengthen pan-African and regional bodies and programmes, including the African Peer Review Mechanism. |
Help strengthen the AU and NEPAD, including through:
- support, including flexible funding, for the African Union and other Pan-African institutions such as the Pan-African Parliament;
- support to the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), while respecting African ownership, such as through contributions to the APRM Secretariat Trust Fund;
- appropriate and co-ordinated support to Africa countries in the implementation of their good governance national strategies, including their country action plans for implementation of APRM recommendations.
|
African governments should draw up comprehensive capacitybuilding strategies. Donors should invest in these, making sure that their efforts are fully aligned with these strategies rather than with their own competing priorities and procedures.
|
It is up to developing countries themselves and their governments to take the lead on development. They need to decide, plan and sequence their economic policies to fit with their own development strategies, for which they should be accountable to all their people.
|
Skilled professionals are key to building improvements in the administration and technical ability which Africa so gravely lacks. The international community should commit in 2005 to provide US$500 million a year over 10 years to revitalise Africa’s institutions of higher education and up to US$3 billion over 10 years to develop centres of excellence in science and technology, including African institutes of technology.
Parliaments in both developed and other developing countries should establish partnerships to strengthen parliaments in Africa, including the pan-African Parliament.
Independent media institutions, public service broadcasters, civil society and the private sector, with support from governments, should form a consortium of partners in Africa and outside, to provide funds and expertise to create an African media development facility. |
Helping develop skilled professionals for Africa’s private and public sectors, through supporting networks of excellence between African’s and other countries’ institutions of higher education and centres of excellence in science and technology institutions. In this respect, we look forward to the outcome of the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society taking place in November in Tunis. |
