Africa Partnership Forum - Conclusions

10 October 2004

G8 Heads and African leaders, meeting at Gleneagles in July 2005, agreed on a comprehensive package of measures to support Africa's development. They agreed on the need for a mechanism to monitor the implementation of these commitments; and that a strengthened Africa Partnership Forum should monitor progress on the basis of a Joint Action Plan. 

The fifth meeting of the Africa Partnership Forum took take place in London on 4-5 October. The agenda for the meeting focused on the Role of the APF; a Joint Action Plan, covering commitments both by the international community and Africa; on prospects for financing Africa's development; and on the African Peer Review Mechanism. Those background papers that are available are included below. 

The communiquépdf document(18 kb) and Terms of Reference from the London meetingpdf document(18 kb) are now available  

Background

The Africa Partnership Forum (APF) was established at the G8 Evian Summit in May 2003 where it was agreed that the network of G8 Africa Personal Representatives should be expanded to include African governments (members of the NEPAD Steering Committee), the African Union (AU) and New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), a wider range of donor governments (those giving more than $100m each year in aid to Africa), as well as key multilateral agencies. The Terms of Reference for the APF, agreed at it's inaugural meeting in Paris (November 2003) and a full list of APF members are included below.

The APF is co-chaired by the Chair of the AU, the G8 Presidency, a non-G8 OECD representative, and AU-NEPAD. Co-chairs in 2004 were Belgium, AU-NEPAD Mozambique and the US. Co-chairs in 2005 are Nigeria, UK, the Netherlands and AU-NEPAD.

The APF has met on four separate occasions - in Paris, 2003; in Mozambique and Washington, 2004; in Abuja, April 2005. Discussion at the Abuja meeting focused on four agenda items, and a separate paper was produced for each, including on the Commission for Africa and G8 Africa Action Plan, NEPAD progress report, Mutual Accountability, and Peace and Security (no paper available). The communiqué and final report from the Abuja meeting are included below.