New Partnership for Africa's Development Planning and Coordinating Agency (NEPAD)

• URL: http://www.nepad.org/
• Address: NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency, P.O. Box 1234, Halfway House, Midrand, 1685
• Postal Code: 1685
• City: Johannesburg
• Country: South Africa
• Telephone: +27 113133716
• Email: bankolea@nepad.org
• Head of the organization: Ibrahim Assane Mayaki

NEPAD is a programme of the African Union designed to meet its development objectives. The highest authority of the NEPAD implementation process is the Heads of State and Government Summit of the African Union, formerly known as the OAU. NEPAD's objectives include: To eradicate poverty; to place African countries, both individually and collectively, on a path of sustainable growth and development; to halt the marginalization of Africa in the globalization process and enhance its full and beneficial integration into the global economy; to accelerate the empowerment of women.