The NEPAD debate has been going on in the popular media for some time with no clear guidelines and basic agreement. While the intensity of the debate between those whom we may roughly call for NEPAD Optimists and pessimists may indeed be a reflection of the growing frustration with the manifest rudderlessness of the continent’s political leaders and concern at the deepening poverty in both urban and rural milieus, there is no doubt the entire controversy might benefit from some schematization. The desire to impose a certain discipline on a largely inchoate debate was the primary reason behind the Centre for democracy and development (CDD)’s decision to organize a conference on NEPAD. Squaring directly with the primary objective of the centre to make a activism and expertise cohere, our aim was to provide a platform for the informed discussion of the central issue of concern in the new partnership. To this end, CDD invited participants from various walks of life to make their inputs in the best tradition of free speech and open debate. This monograph is one outcome of that seminar. 

CONTENTS
Chapter 1. The New Partnership for Africa’s Development: Dispensing with the Begging Bowl or Plus ca Change, Plus Cles la Meme Chose?
By Sola Akinrimade…………………………………………………………………………………….P 1

Chapter 2. NEPAD: A New Chapter in African- Led Development
By Wiseman Nkuhlu………………………………………………………………………………….p 29

Chapter 3. NEPAD, Gender and the Poverty Trap: The Challenges of financing for Women Development in Aafrica
By Zo Randriamaro……………………………………………………………………………………..P 40

Chapter 4. Preventing Conflict and Promoting Peace and Security within NEPAD and the African Union- some comment
By Kayode Fayemi……………………………………………………………………………………….P 63

Chapter 5. The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD): The Role of Civil Society.
By Hamboka Wameyo…………………………………………………………………………………P 84

Chapter 6. Peace and Security in Africa: How Can the G-8 Contribute?
By Tom Porteous…………………………………………………………………………………………p 92

Chapter 7.NEPAD And Human Right By Browman Manby………………………….P 103

Chapter 8. Children and Youth in the Content of the partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD)……………………………………………………………………………….p 119

Chapter 9. Emerging Discourse in NEPAD is Africa in Search of a New Paradigm or it is Old Wine in new Botlles? By Nana K.A Busia, Jr……………………………………p 144

Chapter 10. Seminar in The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) Hheld at the Royal Commonwealth Club, 18 North number land Avenue, London, 25- may- 2002. A Report By Ebenezer Obadare…………………………………………..p 159