NEPAD@20 Symposium - Building the Africa We Want

26 January 2021
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Event — WHAT: The African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) would like to inform the media that the agency is organising a high-level symposium to mark 20 years of NEPAD implementation.

WHY: Almost two decades since the birth of NEPAD, there is need to reflect on the successes, achievements and challenges in its implementation and examine the relevance and future of the first continental development agency. The high-level symposium and dialogue to assess NEPAD implementation over the past 20 years and the capacities needed to support implementation of the first continental development agency, AUDA-NEPAD, is therefore being organised.

WHO: The symposium will comprise a high-level roundtable and panels for open dialogue on NEPAD and actions needed for Building the Africa We Want. Dignitaries at the event will include:

  • H.E Cyril Ramaphosa, President of the Republic of South Africa and Chairperson of the African Union
  • H.E. Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda, Chairperson of the NEPAD HSGOC
  • H.E Moussa Faki Mahamat, Chairperson of the African Union Commission
  • H.E Abdelmadjid Tebboune, President of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria
  • H.E Olusegun Obasanjo, former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
  • H.E Ellen Sirleaf Johnson, former President of the Republic of Liberia and Nobel Prize Laureate
  • H.E Thabo Mbeki, former President of the Republic of South Africa

Dr Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, Chief Executive Officer, AUDA-NEPAD WHEN: Thursday 28th January 2021 at 10:00 to 16:00 (GMT+2)

WHERE: Virtually at https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_63olMLj6ROWx2G4kebb9_w

More information can be obtained at: https://nepad.org/event/nepad20-symposium

To arrange for interviews with the African Union Development Agency-NEPAD, please contact:

Ms Mwanja Ng'anjo +27 11 256 3582 | Mwanjan@nepad.org

About AUDA-NEPAD

The African Union Development Agency-NEPAD is the technical body of the African Union. The mandate of AUDA-NEPAD is to facilitate and coordinate the implementation of regional and continental priority programmes and projects and to push for partnerships, resource mobilisation, research and knowledge management. Through AUDA-NEPAD, African countries are provided unique opportunities to take full control of their development agenda, to work more closely together and to cooperate more effectively with international partners. www.nepad.org

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