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NEPAD

This report presents the progress made by the UK following an Africa Action Plan (AAP) to support Africa’s development which has been committed to in 2002. Main points made by the report are:

• UK aid and diplomatic effort has helped Africa end some of its worst wars, in countries such as Sierra Leone, Sudan and Angola
• in order to improve governance and to tackle corruption UK aid is helping AU/NEPAD to run their innovative programme of peer review and to help reform the civil service, improve management of public funds and tackle corruption
• the UK has also taken action at home and internationally by tightened UK law on money laundering and will also ratify UN Convention against Corruption
• he UK fully supports the Commission for Africa’s call for more and better aid and will provide over one billion pounds to Africa this year and will increase official development assistance to 0.7% of gni by 2013
• the UK is promoting the International Finance Facility (IFF) as a way to frontload aid flows and provide an additional $50 billion per year between now and 2015
• the longer-term future of Africa lies with trade and economic growth and the UK is helping Africa to promote investment, build infrastructure, and trade more effectively – whilst striving to improve Africa’s access to European and other global markets.

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