Africa: Rescuing Nepad

The New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad) should return to its original vision - revised to account for the impact of HIV/AIDS and some other key developments - before it becomes lost in a futile attempt to become an African 'ministry of planning' or worse still an implementer of projects. Can Nepad be rescued? Fortunately it can, if the heads-of-state recall that their role is to put Africa on a new development trajectory, and not to supervise programmes and projects. This is according to an article from Africa Analysis by Dr Tajudeen Abdul Raheem, general secretary of the Pan African Movement and Dr Alex de Waal, of the London-based Justice Africa.