Following the present administration’s quest to transform the nation’s economy, the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) has called for collective efforts towards actualizing the agenda.
It wants full participation of all the three tiers of government, the private sector, non-governmental organisations, and media, amongst others, on the transformation agenda.
The special adviser to the President on NEPAD, Ambassador Tunji Olagunju, made the call at a sensitisation workshop for NEPAD state coordinators yesterday in Abuja.
Olagunju stated that the NEPAD objectives portray a very good measure for the economic transformation agenda.
He emphasised on the need for African leaders to leverage the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) for good governance, which he said, was the key to economic transformation.
According to him, “ our view is that, NEPAD, as a window, has brought unprecedented opportunity for transformation. As a development agenda, it has brought creative partnerships as well as global goodwill to engage the developmental challenges facing the continent.
NEPAD agenda has encouraged the leadership to realize the importance of solving the challenges together, in an inclusive participatory culture of consultation with stakeholders, based on the need to rely on domestic resources in order to achieve the shared goals of accelerating socio-economic transformation”.
He noted that the workshop with the theme: ‘ NEPAD As Africa’s Transformation Agenda’, was organised to increase the understanding of the NEPAD’s vision and agenda.