President Cyril Ramaphosa will tomorrow, Thursday 28 January 2021, deliver the Welcome Address at the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) 20th Symposium to be held virtually. 
 
Established in 2001 as the flagship socio economic programme of the African Union, NEPAD’s primary objectives were to eradicate poverty, promote sustainable growth and development, integrate Africa into the world economy and accelerate the empowerment of women.  
 
The NEPAD@20 Symposium brings together current and former African Union Heads of State and Government, representatives of all spheres of the African and International development community to reflect on the successes, achievements and challenges of the past two decades and the future of the transformed African Union Development Agency-NEPAD under the theme:” A Decade of Action to Achieve the Africa we Want”.
 
In its current, transformed structure adopted at the 31st African Union Heads of State and Government Summit in Mauritania in 2018, the African Union Development Agency-NEPAD prioritises spearheading the Agenda 2063. Its mandate will be to coordinate and execute priority regional and continental projects to integration towards the accelerated realisation of Agenda 2063, strengthen capacity of African Union Member States and regional bodies, advance knowledge-based advisory support, undertake the full range of resource mobilisation, and to serve as the continent’s technical interface with all Africa’s development and development partners.
 
Members of the media are invited to follow the Welcome Address to the NEPAD@20 Symposium as follows: 
 
Date: 28 January 2021
 
Time: 10: 00
 
Virtual links:           
 
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Twitter: http://twitter.com/GovernmentZA
 
YouTube: http://youtube.com/GovernmentZA
 
Twitter : https://twitter.com/NEPAD_Agency
 
 
 
 
Media enquiries: Tyrone Seale, Acting Spokesperson to President Ramaphosa –  083 575 7440/ media@presidency.gov.za
 
Issued by: The Presidency
Pretoria