Africa Partnership Forum (APF)

2, rue André Pascal, 75775 Paris Cedex 16, France

Phone : +33 145248775 / Fax : +33 144306133

Web site : www.africapartnershipforum.org

The Africa Partnership Forum (APF) was established in November 2003 in the wake of the Evian Summit as a way of broadening the existing high-level G8/NEPAD dialogue to encompass Africa’s major bilateral and multilateral development partners. The APF’s mission is to strengthen partnership efforts in favour of Africa’s development. The APF has become a key forum at a senior political level for discussing and monitoring policy issues, strategies and priorities in support of Africa’s development. Its members; Africa, G8, OECD and other development partners all work together as equals in the forum – and ensure synergies and coherence with other international fora. The APF meets twice each year and is Co-Chaired on an alternating basis by representatives of the African Union and NEPAD, and by G8 and non-G8 OECD Member countries. Its membership includes: Heads of State or Government of the members of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD); The Chairperson of the African Union Commission; Heads of the eight African Union recognized regional economic communities; Head of the African Development Bank; Heads of State or Government of Africa’s principal industrialized-country development partners; The President of the European Commission; Heads of selected international institutions, including the United Nations and its United Nations Development Programme and Economic Commission for Africa, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The Forum focuses on strategic, political and socio-economic issues related to African development and the implementation of NEPAD programmes given the overarching objective of the Millennium Development Goals. The role of the Forum is to catalyse action and to coordinate support behind African priorities and NEPAD. In this regard, it identifies commitments that African countries and Africa’s development partners have made to address the continent’s development needs, including the NEPAD and AU programmes, the G8 Africa Action Plan and commitments made at Gleneagles and diverse UN Summits including the 2005 Millennium Review. The APF’s core task is to monitor how commitments are being taken forward and to establish associated outcomes against which progress can be tracked. The APF meets twice a year is co-chaired by representatives from the African Union and NEPAD and by G8 and non-G8 OECD member countries. Its work is guided by the four APF co-chairs and, by extension, the wider APF membership. One of the two annual meeting has typically been held in Africa and the other in the country holding the G8 presidency.