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Japan – African Partnership for Development: 0.5
Postscript: Score [0.5] The African Partnership for Development featured prominently at the 2011 Deauville Summit. The G8 welcomed the conclusions of the 16th meeting of the Africa Partnership Forum on 21 April 2011, which brought together personal representative of Heads of States and Government of Africa and its principal development partners. It also endorsed the first [...]
Read more →African Partnership for Development – Fostering Development Through Aid Effectiveness and Accountability: 0.5
Postscript: Score [0.5] G8 leaders affirmed that development is a common challenge and that aid effectiveness is a shared responsibility. While they acknowledged that all commitments have not been achieved in full – there is a gap of USD 1.27 billion in current dollars relative to OECD estimates for 2010 – they maintained that ODA is [...]
Read more →African Partnership for Development – Supporting Economic Growth: 0.75
Postscript: Score 0.75 Acknowledging that, “Africa is increasingly a destination for foreign investment and private sector development” G8 leaders pledged to “intensify our efforts on drivers for economic growth, including human capital development, regional and global trade integration, business environment, domestic resources mobilization, and scaling up of access to infrastructures and related services, including for [...]
Read more →African Partnership for Development – Promoting Good Governance: 0.75
Postscript: Score [0.75] The G8 renewed its commitment to transparency and good governance as key drivers of progress. It affirmed its ongoing support for democratic reform around the world, including Sub-Saharan Africa, and declared that, “democracy lays the best path to peace, stability, prosperity, shared growth, and development”. To this end, the G8 welcomed the spread of [...]
Read more →United States: Partnership with Africa (0.75)
According to the 2011 G8 Deauville Declaration, Member States took a considerable step forward by crafting the G8/Africa Joint Declaration titled, Shared Values, Shared Responsibilities. Specifically related to the Partnership with Africa, this joint declaration affirms the important of economic development, as outlined within the NEPAD framework. Indeed, G8 Leaders agreed that the “challenge today [...]
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