9 April 2008
Maputo — Mozambican Prime Minister Luisa Diogo is one of 16 international personalities invited by Danish Prime Minister Anders Rasmussen to form a Commission for Effective Development Cooperation with Africa.
According to a press release issued by Diogo's office on Wednesday, the purpose of the commission is "to present new and creative strategies to revitalize and strengthen international development cooperation with Africa". The strategies the commission will design are intended "to renew the political will to improve development cooperation to the benefit of the peoples of Africa".
The report drafted by the commission "will present a new vision on how development cooperation can help African efforts to overcome the challenges of today and the future, including recognition of the socio-cultural ad economic diversity of the region".
The goal of such a report is to propose a strategy "on how to increase effective international aid to Africa, with special attention paid to youth and to employment". The report "should contain recommendations for poverty reduction, increased economic growth and promotion of local autonomy".
The commission is also charged with looking into ways of promoting "active participation by women in society and in the economy'.
Other members of the commission include Rasmussen himself, the Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete, former Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (who is now a World Bank director), the chairperson of the African Union Commission, Jean Ping, and the President of the African Development Bank, Donald Kaberuka,
The commission will hold its first meeting in Copenhagen on 16 April, and will hold two further meetings - in Addis Ababa in November, and in Copenhagen in April 2009. These meetings will promote workshops and conferences in Africa, which will discuss the challenges of creating a prosperous future for Africa's youth.
The commission will also "promote an international debate in the media, websites, blogs and other relevant forms of communication".
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