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This major new 139 page report for the Strategic Partnership with Africa, published March 2001, was written by Howard White & Tony Killick with Steve Kayizzi and Marie-Angelique Savane. The report talks about the Africanisation of global poverty - with 291 of Africa's 580 million people living on under $1 a day. The report discusses in detail the causes of poverty both within and outside Africa - and notes that solutions must be country-specific. ISBN 0-82134867-1. Contact World Bank Tel + 202 477 1234.
NEPAD - the major new plan for African Development
At an October 2001 summit to discuss the plan variously known the NAI (New African Initiative), the Millennium Action Plan (MAP), African leaders have agreed to call their new ``Marshall Plan'' the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD). Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo will chair NEPAD's implementation committee.
President Abdulazeez Bouteflika of Algeria and President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal will be as vice-chairs. President Wade is pursuing Senegal's own variation of NEPAD with his OMEGA Plan. NEPAD's secretariat will be in Pretoria, reflecting President Thabo Mbeki's close involvement with the initiative. Much of the early drafting of the plan has taken place in South Africa.
NEPAD involves a range of ambitious targets relating to governance, education, investment and IT, communications and infrastructure. The plan has been endorsed by the OAU and has been received positively by the G8 - though whether additional funds will follow is a key question. UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has taken a keen interest in NEPAD, hence the reference to Africa in his keynote speech to the 2001 Labour Party Conference. Click for more information on NEPAD. For a perspective from UK Minister for Africa Baroness Amos click here.
The central role of the diamond industry in the downward spiral of Sierra Leone through the 1990s is highlighted in a detailed 88-page report entitled The Heart of the Matter : Sierra Leone Diamonds & Human Security by Ian Smillie, Lansana Gberie and Ralph Hazleton, published in January 2000. The report, launched simultaneously in Freetown and Ottawa, aims to draw international attention to corruption and criminality in the diamond industry. The report was produced by Partnership Africa Canada. Summaries of the report are available in both English and French. Partnership Africa Canada: Email: pac@web.net Fax: + 613 237 6530. See also Sierra Leone website web
Knowledge & public policy Nigeria
The place of higher education in national development and the contribution of social science research to development policy and practice is considered in Higher Education, the Social Sciences and National Development in Nigeria by Prof. Geoffrey Nwaka of Abia State University, PMB 2000, Uturu, Abia State, Nigeria. Social Research and Public Policy in Nigeria has also been examined by Dr Olurode of the University of Ife. The Social Science Council of Nigeria recently devoted an annual conference to this theme.
The African Decade of Disabled People runs from 2000 to 2009. Following the Mexico World Assembly of Disabled Peoples' International in Dec' 98, Disabled Peoples' Organisations from 13 African countries met in Cape Town in Jan 99, and called upon their governments to improve living conditions for disabled people in Africa. See Disability Frontline, the newsletter of SAFOD, the Southern Africa Federation of the Disabled, published in English & Portuguese, email safod@telconet.co.zw fax + 263 9 74398.
Uganda since the Social Summit is a focus of Issue 7, (Apr/Jun 99) of the quarterly DENIVA News from the Development Network of Indigenous Voluntary Associations in Uganda, fax 256 41 531236, e-mail denivaug@infocom.co.ug
The French NGO SURVIE produces a regular monthly newsletter on Africa in French, Billets d'Afrique. Email survie@globenet.org fax + 331 43 20 5558.
Under 5 mortality
Human Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: the determinants of under-five
mortality by Lucia Hanmer and Howard White is a report for Sida published
in January 1999. The report includes case studies of Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Comments or enquiries about the report should be addressed to Lucia Hanmer
E-mail: L.hanmer@odi.org.uk or
Howard White E-mail: h.white@ids.ac.uk
African children
The Ohio University Institute for the African Child is holding
a 3 day Conference, June 16 - 19, 1999 on the theme of The Children of
Africa: Resources for Learning, Health and Society. Contact Polly Sandenburgh,
email sandenbu@ohiou.edu
African economies
Working papers produced by The Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, (CSAE) are put on to the internet at: http://csae.ox.ac.uk/ as soon as they are available. Recent papers cover Parental attitudes to education and enrolment choice in rural Ethiopia; An economic model of the Ethiopian farm household; Networks, communities and markets in Sub-Saharan Africa : implications for firm growth and investment; Empirical regularities in the poverty-environment relationship of African rural households; The IMF's role in structural adjustment. CSAE: Email: csae.publishing@economics.oxford.ac.uk Fax: + 44 1865 281447.
CSAE hosted Poverty in Africa - A Dialogue on Causes & Solutions hosted by CSAE, in Oxford on April 15/16 99. The meeting explored Participation, the Impact of Aid and Debt Relief; Who Benefits versus Who Doesn't; and the issue of Conflict. Issues on the agenda included conditionality, ownership and the role of NGOs, foreign capital, investment & poverty. Fax + 44 (0) 1865 281447.
Conflict,
Peace, & Reconstruction
The UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service (NGLS) has published (Dec
98) a 126 page volume in the Voices from Africa series focusing on African
experiences in averting and/or ending conflict, promoting peace and undertaking
reconstruction.
The book examines OAU efforts on democratisation, the emergence of local NGOs in Somaliland, reconstruction in Tigray and reconciliation in the Great Lakes. Email ngls@unctad.org fax + 41 22 917 0049.
African Diplomacy
The Africa Centre, London held a conference on African Diplomacy:
Achievements, Challenges & Prospects in Mar 99. Email africacentre@gn.apc.org
fax + 44 (0) 171 836 1975.
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